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Mile-Wide ‘Walnut’ Asteroid With Its Own Moon To Fly By Earth Saturday
cbs2la ^ | 05/21/2019

Posted on 05/21/2019 4:52:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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21 posted on 05/21/2019 5:40:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

3rd pic Nessie?


22 posted on 05/21/2019 5:42:47 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: BenLurkin

A mile-wide asteroid has enough gravity to capture a satellite?

I never would have guessed.


23 posted on 05/21/2019 5:46:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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They think it’s Hale-Bopp. Mass squirrel suicide coming.


24 posted on 05/21/2019 5:47:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_asteroid


25 posted on 05/21/2019 5:54:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like and out of focus water bear.


26 posted on 05/21/2019 5:57:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

It’s on the camera lens.


27 posted on 05/21/2019 6:01:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, not THAT far back. think 1950s.


28 posted on 05/21/2019 6:08:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BenLurkin

That’s no walnut — that’s a cupcake.


29 posted on 05/21/2019 6:11:06 PM PDT by 353FMG
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30 posted on 05/21/2019 6:17:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m surprised it’d have that orbiting one. I didn’t think there’d be enough gravity to hold it in place like that.

Maybe it’s really just another alien probe sent as a follow up to that umma gumma thing or whatever it was.


31 posted on 05/21/2019 6:21:00 PM PDT by fruser1
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A Saucerful Of Secrets (Ummagumma)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQSkYUFou54


32 posted on 05/21/2019 6:25:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL!

Yes, this is exactly why I can never remember the name of that thing.


33 posted on 05/21/2019 6:35:59 PM PDT by fruser1
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If it’s got mass it’s got gravity.


34 posted on 05/21/2019 6:38:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2019/05/development-displacement-sensor-measure-gravity-smallest-source-mass-ever
Development of a Displacement Sensor to Measure Gravity of Smallest Source Mass Ever
Fri, 05/17/2019 - 11:18am
by Tohoku University


35 posted on 05/21/2019 7:25:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: BenLurkin

That just barely gives me time to order a pair of Nikes from Amazon!


36 posted on 05/21/2019 7:36:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A mile-wide asteroid has enough gravity to capture a satellite? I never would have guessed.

Common phenomenon. But no, they don't actually "capture" their satellites. Co-creation is more likely.

Regards,

37 posted on 05/21/2019 9:10:52 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.



38 posted on 05/22/2019 12:24:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Watched this before I got up today:

Cosmic Journeys - Day of the Asteroid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-gegCmRpQ

this appears to be a second copy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xxGojCytA


39 posted on 05/22/2019 12:32:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks, looked like tv-show quality (I assume it was).

At first, I thought that was gonna be a rock video... (well, it was, just not that kind of rock).

The first comment below the video was hilarious (”should I watch a horror movie... or watch this and poop my pants ?”).


40 posted on 05/22/2019 3:12:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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