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[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA]

1 posted on 07/18/2011 10:16:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Awesome photo!


3 posted on 07/18/2011 10:17:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh wow! I always view the Astronomy Picture of the Day, just so your know. And appreciate seeing these of which some I e-mail to others I know have interest as well.

Thanks for your good work.

CW


4 posted on 07/18/2011 10:21:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: SunkenCiv

Aaargh, most of the APOD contenders don’t show up on the poll page!

Thanks for posting this.


5 posted on 07/18/2011 10:24:31 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: SunkenCiv

WAIT A SECOND!!

Wasn’t that the asteroid that killed us all in “Deep Impact?” Or “When Worlds Collide?” Or where the sort of young Obi Wan Kenobe hides from Jango Fett?


6 posted on 07/18/2011 10:28:54 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: SunkenCiv

Everything in the solar system looks like there has been a war.


10 posted on 07/19/2011 5:02:24 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Interesting composite of the asteroids earth spaceships have visited to date.


14 posted on 07/19/2011 1:03:27 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

“... its diameter sizing up at approximately 330 miles (530 kilometers)”


28 posted on 07/19/2011 7:25:01 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: SunkenCiv

Yup.

It’s a big airless rock.

Huh.


33 posted on 07/20/2011 4:17:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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