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Astronomers discover "mystery object" in 31-day orbit around Earth
SpaceWeather.com ^ | October 27, 2009

Posted on 10/27/2009 6:30:13 AM PDT by ETL

MYSTERY OBJECT: Yesterday, astronomers in Arizona, New Mexico and Spain, all hunting for near-Earth asteroids, discovered a "mystery object" orbiting Earth. Temporarily named "9U01FF6," it is small and in an elongated, 31-day orbit. Experts say it is probably a piece of an Apollo-era Moon mission. We'll get a closer look on Oct. 29th when it zips past Earth about 82,000 km (0.2 lunar distances) away. Advanced amateur astronomers can find it using this ephemeris [see link].


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KEYWORDS: 9u01ff6; ufo
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1 posted on 10/27/2009 6:30:13 AM PDT by ETL
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To: buckrodgers

Ping


2 posted on 10/27/2009 6:32:25 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: ETL

Debris my rear end. Here’s the real answer. Can you say mother ship?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371534/posts


3 posted on 10/27/2009 6:32:28 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: ETL

Were from “V” and were to help you.


4 posted on 10/27/2009 6:32:37 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: saganite

“V’ger”


5 posted on 10/27/2009 6:33:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: ETL

Houston, I think we’ve found Ben Affleck’s career.


6 posted on 10/27/2009 6:33:39 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: massgopguy

7 posted on 10/27/2009 6:33:45 AM PDT by Loud Mime (The time to water the tree of liberty approaches......)
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To: saganite

LOL @ that thread.


8 posted on 10/27/2009 6:34:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: ETL

But does it have water !!! We must know, send up a probe and see if it has water now !! This is series hugh !

Hmmm, but wait, they tell us what planets are made of gazillion light years away, the exact chemical make up and can’t identify an object in our near orbit?


9 posted on 10/27/2009 6:35:56 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: ETL
when it zips past Earth about 82,000 km

Ack, I blinked again.

10 posted on 10/27/2009 6:36:35 AM PDT by MaxMax (Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: saganite
This is from Farrakhan's own Nation of Islam website (graphic too)...

Min. Farrakhan’s Vision and Divine Communication
By Jabril Muhammad
Updated Aug 13, 2008

Minister Louis Farrakhan is an honorable man; sincerely motivated; totally committed to the rise of his people in particular, and humanity, in general. Moreover, he is certainly not insane.

He stated, in his October 24, 1989 press conference, that God would show a sign of the truth of his press statement. God did. The day following his press conference a “UFO” was seen over Washington, D.C. That “UFO” was a sign from God. It was shown on television in Washington, D.C. for the three days that followed his press conference.

President Bush, his staff and the general public in that city, which includes representatives of the nations of the Earth, had access to the full text of Minister Farrakhan’s statement. It was printed in full in The Washington Times. Excerpts appeared in The Washington Post. The entire audio of his statement was aired on radio.

Minister Farrakhan ended his statement to the press with these words:

“This is a final warning to you. The ball is now in your court. You may do with it, with me, and with us, as you see fit.

“Thank you for your attention and may Allah bless each of you with the light of understanding, as I greet you in peace—As Salaam Alaikum.”

They read it. They heard it. They were aware of the “UFO” sighting. When reporters questioned the White House on the Minister’s press statement, they did not mock him; nor did they brush him off. They said in public, “No comment.”

Min. Farrakhan’s Vision and Divine Communication:
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_5087.shtml
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Also from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam website, FinalCall.com...

Is Minister Farrakhan’s Vision-Like Experience on the “Mother’s Wheel” Believable?
by Tynnetta Muhammad, FinalCall.com News
Updated Feb 2, 2006

excerpt...

When I first came to this part of Mexico in 1974, I read an unusual article in the Daily News that pointed to a project underway in a mountainous area, 40 miles south of Mexico City, in which the Mexican government was involved in granting permission to a special group of guardians who had been contacted by others who wanted to secure a landing and experimental base for their space craft. This story has insisted up to this very day, with credible photographs and verifiable video footage of some of these crafts and objects identified as “Ships of Light” by photographer Carlos Diaz of Tepoztlán. This individual has met with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan upon several occasions.

During one of those meetings in Tepoztlán, a group of witnesses literally observed an extremely bright object, appearing like a diamond or crystal in the sky in broad daylight, out of which exited two other smaller objects moving in opposite directions before disappearing around a curtain of the mountain in front of us. The larger bright object remained a minute or so longer, blinked or pulsated several times, before disappearing straight up in front of us. Within a few days afterward, I was inspired and guided to publish The Cultural Links News Journal bearing the Crystal Logo on the cover, which will also appear on my website later this year.

Every week of this New Year, further sightings over Mexico are being reported, appearing to the eyewitnesses in clusters of various formations. There is a heightening of expectation here and around our Planet that something unusual is taking place in Mexico, which is speeding up the molecular energy of our mental perception that is producing a great shift in spiritual consciousness.

In the midst of these extraordinary happenings is emerging a deeper awareness for many people of the Divine Presence and Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad affixed to the controversial “Vision-Like Experience” of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on board the Great Mother’s Wheel and his direct contact with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

With all the foregoing conclusions presented, I raise this question to our readers for their response: “Is Minister Farrakhan’s Vision-Like Experience on the Mother’s Wheel believable? Are we witnessing a new science and technology that is being revealed moving us onward, one step beyond into another world?”

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2411.shtml

11 posted on 10/27/2009 6:37:14 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

12 posted on 10/27/2009 6:37:45 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ($$$$$OBAMA MONEY!!!$$$$$ /s)
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To Serve Man
Series: The Twilight Zone
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare

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Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine. The Kanamits, nine-foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. They end war, they end famine. They make the military wonder: what's the catch?

CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.

Watch it, or any other TZ episode, online for free at:
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/

See season 3, page 1. there are 3 seasons in all, each seasons page has 2 pages of listings.
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Farrakhan hails Obama as 'hope of entire world'

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Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23333598/

Video of Farrakhan's Obama endorsement at the above 'annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008'. Hear him (Farrakhan) call Obama "The Messiah" And speak of "universal change":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=farrakhan+messiah+obama&aq=0&oq=Farrakhan+messiah

13 posted on 10/27/2009 6:37:47 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Scythian
Hmmm, but wait, they tell us what planets are made of gazillion light years away, the exact chemical make up and can’t identify an object in our near orbit?

This one has as part of its makeup a very intractable element... evidence to prove them right or wrong.

14 posted on 10/27/2009 6:38:03 AM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: ETL

/p>

15 posted on 10/27/2009 6:38:03 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: 1rudeboy
Houston, I think we’ve found Ben Affleck’s career.

That explains the tiny particles trailing behind it, stuck in its weak gravity- Matt Damon's career.

16 posted on 10/27/2009 6:40:22 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Vaquero

NOMAD! Lol!


17 posted on 10/27/2009 6:40:33 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Do the mainstream muzzies accept noi as islam?

They don’t seem to follow the regular channels heh.


18 posted on 10/27/2009 6:40:58 AM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: ETL
Blue Ice Comet.
19 posted on 10/27/2009 6:41:36 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: ETL

I bet its the damaged module from the Apollo 13 mission, OR....A Russian craft with dead cosmonauts that never made the news, believe it or not the Russians did a lot of things to catch up with us in the Race to the Moon, at whatever cost.


20 posted on 10/27/2009 6:43:17 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: ETL
when it zips past Earth

How can something orbiting Earth zip past the object it is orbiting?

21 posted on 10/27/2009 6:43:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: 1rudeboy
Houston, I think we’ve found Ben Affleck’s career.

Nah, I flushed that years ago...

22 posted on 10/27/2009 6:46:30 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Mmogamer
Do the mainstream muzzies accept noi as islam?

The "Nation Of Islam" is a Black Liberation Theology revolutionary communist front movement like Reverend Wright's "church". Neither is really about religion.

23 posted on 10/27/2009 6:46:31 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
zips past Earth about 82,000 km (0.2 lunar distances) away.

At the risk of sounding like a Philistine, can someone tell me how far that is in real terms?

24 posted on 10/27/2009 6:46:57 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: saganite

“Debris my rear end. “

Spoken like a true NASCAR fan.


25 posted on 10/27/2009 6:48:43 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: HIDEK6

I guessing about 50k miles????


26 posted on 10/27/2009 6:48:51 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Mmogamer
Do the mainstream muzzies accept noi as islam?

Millions More Movement rally
Washington D.C., October 15, 2005
Louis Farrakhan speech

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html
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Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says
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"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/
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From Louis Farrakhan's "Nation Of Islam" website, FinalCall.com...
Re: Millions More Movement rally, Oct 15, 2005:

Unity generates power to change reality
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

"The time has never been more ripe for a strategic relationship between the Black, Brown, Native American and the poor of this nation and the world."

"We need a Ministry of Defense. Our young men are born soldiers, but they are in the wrong war. They are fighting a war in the streets of America against each other, or they are fighting an unjust war overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq. We need to bring our boys home and put them into the Ministry of Defense, so we can defend our communities, rather than destroy our communities.

We need a Ministry of Art and Culture. We applaud the hip hop community, the leaders of young people all over the world, but I want the young generation of artists to know there is a bigger purpose for art and culture than popping our fingers and shaking our backsides. Mao Tse Tung, throughout his long march to conquer China, had a billion people whose lives he had to transform. Many of them were victims of opium, drugs and prostitution, like we are. But Mao Tse Tung went to the cultural community and they accepted his idea. Then, through song, dance, poetry, drama, documentaries, movies and books, the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people. China became a world power on the base of culture and the artistic community. If we had a Ministry of Art and Culture in every city, [we'd] create this movement [in the U.S.], we could say to our young people, “What is the idea of the Time and are you reflecting that idea in your songs, dance and music?

We need a Ministry of Trade and Commerce. Do you think that a Millions More Movement should not be involved in the development of Africa, the Caribbean and Central America? ... we need a Ministry of Trade and Commerce that can link the struggle here with Africa and the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Source: FinalCall.com
This is Farrakhan's own "Nation Of Islam" website
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml

Note: should the original page mysteriously vanish, try this linked cache form:
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22We+need+a+Ministry+of+Defense.+Our+young+men+are+born+soldiers%2C+but+they+are+in+the+wrong+war.%22%22mao%22&fr=moz2&u=www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4328.shtml&w=%22we+need+a+ministry+of+defense+our+young+men+are+born+soldiers+but+they+are+in+the+wrong+war%22+mao&d=A4xrG52uSSxU&icp=1&.intl=us

27 posted on 10/27/2009 6:49:16 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

28 posted on 10/27/2009 6:49:37 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: massgopguy



29 posted on 10/27/2009 6:51:36 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: ETL

bump


30 posted on 10/27/2009 6:52:44 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: ETL

let’s hope the mystery object does not intend to bomb the south pole looking for water


31 posted on 10/27/2009 6:52:59 AM PDT by silverleaf ("For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice"- Krauthammer)
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To: ETL

No.9,No.9,I mean number No.19!


32 posted on 10/27/2009 6:53:29 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: HIDEK6
At the risk of sounding like a Philistine, can someone tell me how far that is in real terms?

Nice answer -One fifth of the average distance between the earth and the moon (averages about 238,857 miles). So this object is about 47,770 miles away.

Snarky answer - about .8 lunar distances less than the moon...

33 posted on 10/27/2009 6:53:57 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: ETL
Gallactica?
34 posted on 10/27/2009 6:54:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. V for victory)
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To: HIDEK6

88KM/hr = 55Mph

20, 82K KM away would be about 50K Miles away


35 posted on 10/27/2009 6:54:32 AM PDT by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: saganite

obama is extraterrestrial enough for anyone. Talk about an alien life-form!


36 posted on 10/27/2009 6:54:45 AM PDT by Huebolt (Democrat = (national socialist) = NAZI)
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To: 1rudeboy

John Glenn’s brain ... I always figured he had left it in orbit, because he showed no evidence in the Senate of having one.


37 posted on 10/27/2009 6:55:46 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Bigh4u2; HIDEK6
I'm guessing about 50k miles????

Yes, 82,000 kilometers works out to about 50,000 miles (actually 50,800). You just multiple km by .62 to get miles.

38 posted on 10/27/2009 6:56:11 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: saganite

Maybe that’s why 0bama will not reveal his birth data - he’s not just an illegal alien, he’s an alien life form - (and he is invited to leave immediately).


39 posted on 10/27/2009 6:56:25 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO - When 0bama Fails, Freedom Prevails!)
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To: Eye of Unk
A Russian craft with dead cosmonauts that never made the news.

That was my first thought. I've always thought it was odd that JFK used the phrase "send a man to the moon and return him safely to earth" at his inauguration. Doesn't that go without saying? To our way of thinking, yes. New Soviet Man? Not so much.

40 posted on 10/27/2009 7:00:13 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: NautiNurse
How can something orbiting Earth zip past the object it is orbiting?

The orbit is elongated into a stretched-out egg-shape. It is close to the earth at one point and farther away at another. At its closest, it also happens to be at its maximum velocity.

41 posted on 10/27/2009 7:01:35 AM PDT by Huebolt (Democrat = (national socialist) = NAZI)
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To: Huebolt
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42 posted on 10/27/2009 7:01:39 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Well I multiplied by .6 so I guess I guessed close enough!

:0)


43 posted on 10/27/2009 7:05:10 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: HIDEK6

About 408,000 furlongs. Give or take 500 furlongs.


44 posted on 10/27/2009 7:05:13 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible.)
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45 posted on 10/27/2009 7:06:20 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: ETL
Awaiting orders from Calypso Louie, no doubt.
46 posted on 10/27/2009 7:06:20 AM PDT by Landru (COME & GET ME, COPPERS!!)
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To: ArrogantBustard
That's a winner!!

LOL!!

47 posted on 10/27/2009 7:06:50 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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To: ETL

I thought it was V-GER.


48 posted on 10/27/2009 7:07:28 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Huebolt
The orbit is elongated into a stretched-out egg-shape. It is close to the earth at one point and farther away at another. At its closest, it also happens to be at its maximum velocity.

The International Space Station, for example, which does orbit in a circle at apprx 240 miles above Earth, travels at approximately 18,000 miles per hour or about 5 miles per second. But it doesn't "zip" through the sky as we see it on Earth. It moves across the sky at the apparent rate of a high-flying airplane. This thing, at 50,000 miles up at it's closest, is probably not going any faster than the Space Station.

49 posted on 10/27/2009 7:09:56 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: al_c

More specifically, spoken like a Jeff Gordon fan.


50 posted on 10/27/2009 7:10:03 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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