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This animation, created from 20 individual radar images, clearly show the rough outline of 2004 BL86 and its newly-discovered moon... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
1 posted on 01/26/2015 6:34:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

...and the mini-moon has a micro moon and so on infinitum.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 6:36:34 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: BenLurkin
Mini-Moon aime le chocolat.
Scotty, n'est pas.
3 posted on 01/26/2015 6:37:37 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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to attract another object, it must have some dense mass

wonder what it’s made of (and i’m real glad it missed)


4 posted on 01/26/2015 6:38:58 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SunkenCiv

Of possible interest


6 posted on 01/26/2015 6:39:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I don’t like the looks of that mini moon’s orbit...


7 posted on 01/26/2015 6:41:07 PM PST by sargon
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To: BenLurkin

Cute little fella.


8 posted on 01/26/2015 6:41:10 PM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: BenLurkin

"It's coming right for us!"

12 posted on 01/26/2015 6:44:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Mini Me!


13 posted on 01/26/2015 6:44:33 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley/Gruber 2016!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

So it turns out that lots of asteroids have mini-moons. To me, it seems strange that a smallish object like an asteroid would have enough gravity to keep a moon in its orbit. Then again, I never took astrophysics!


15 posted on 01/26/2015 6:46:59 PM PST by Stingray51
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“That’s no Moon.......”


16 posted on 01/26/2015 6:49:29 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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Just a chip off the ol’ block ....


17 posted on 01/26/2015 6:49:48 PM PST by mikrofon (Moonday BUMP)
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To: BenLurkin

does it have a man in its moon, too?


18 posted on 01/26/2015 6:49:54 PM PST by blueplum
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Kind of roundish for a run of the mill asteroid.
19 posted on 01/26/2015 6:52:37 PM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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Don’t look, Ethyl... but it was too late...


20 posted on 01/26/2015 6:53:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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A Mini Moon! Yes! That's what I need!

27 posted on 01/26/2015 7:18:04 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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It’s snowing in DC. What asteroid?

On second thought, this is DC so we have many Hemorrhoids instead. I can see them from my window. They are called Democrats and politicians.


28 posted on 01/26/2015 7:19:53 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin

Modern physics (qm gr) is all the rage, but good old classical mechanics has a certain beauty and simplicity that just can’t be beat.


29 posted on 01/26/2015 7:31:48 PM PST by SpaceBar
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30 posted on 01/26/2015 7:40:04 PM PST by moovova
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?zer0’s brain?

Wait there is Mass to it so that blows that theory...


33 posted on 01/26/2015 8:18:41 PM PST by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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I’m going to wait until that glint of light has made at least one orbit.

Looks like it though.


34 posted on 01/26/2015 8:36:14 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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