Posted on 08/01/2015 9:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On July 25, 2015, the near-Earth asteroid 1999 JD6 made its closest pass of Earth in at least over a century, coming within 4.5 million miles of our planet (7.2 million kilometers, or about 19 times the distance between Earth and the moon) and traveling at a relative velocity of 45,410 mph (20.3 km/s).
As the 1.2-mile (2 km) asteroid zipped by, NASA aimed two of its largest radio telescopes at it, bouncing radar waves off its surface to measure its size, shape, and rotation.
...1999 JD6 is what’s known as a “contact binary,” a peanut-shaped world that’s likely the result of two smaller objects stuck together through their mutual gravitational attraction.
“Radar imaging has shown that about 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids larger than 600 feet [about 180 meters], including 1999 JD6, have this sort of lobed, peanut shape,” said Lance Benner
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Do you have ANY idea how impossible it's going to be to get a backhoe at THIS time of year to dig the shelter foundation ?!?
tards .. the LOT of 'em.
Pennies...er I mean ...Peanuts from Heaven?
A coincidence to have a meteor strike near the capitol of Iran three days later?
A “space peanut”?????????????
OHhhhhhhhh-—that is SO FREAKING CUTE!!!!!
OHHhhhhHHHhhhhh-—we didn’t even need to freaking KNOW about itttttt-—why bother “the American Peoplllllllllll”?????
ANYthing to cover the inadequacies of NASA and Obama....
Just ANYFREAKING thing at all, no limits to the lies and subtrefuge and spin, spin, spin, spin, and more freaking spin....
I thought freaking NASA was out making the Muslims feel good about Outreach or some crap!!!!
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