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1 posted on 10/16/2022 2:51:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Can you imagine how dull your life must be if your job is to study, to the millisecond, changes in the spin of asteroids?


2 posted on 10/16/2022 2:58:00 PM PDT by farmguy
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an average diameter of 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers).

Close to planet killer class object.

6 posted on 10/16/2022 3:05:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Just strolling by looking for a nice place to land ....


7 posted on 10/16/2022 3:07:45 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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4 msec/year change? That means your observation next year would be off by what? An inch? A tenth of an inch?


9 posted on 10/16/2022 3:08:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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I bet if a 3.4 mile diameter asteroid hit Washington D.C., the impact would be heard in Denver...Chandeliers rocking in Las Vegas.
10 posted on 10/16/2022 3:14:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Stop the coverups. Release this data. Here is what’s approaching us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN4vMBdicBg

The Doomsday Machine. Original Star Trek series.


12 posted on 10/16/2022 3:17:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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okay another rock skipped off of it from another direction changing its spin pattern... Solved!! K boys lets go have a few for lunch!! First round is on me!!


17 posted on 10/16/2022 3:44:00 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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“The predictions from the shape model did not match the data,” Marshall said in a statement.”

So the models scientists create can be wrong?

L


20 posted on 10/16/2022 3:47:08 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: BenLurkin

If the rotation is speeding up does that imply that its circumference is shrinking?


21 posted on 10/16/2022 4:03:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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An astroid with it’s own name!
A celestial body of influential proportions!


22 posted on 10/16/2022 4:12:12 PM PDT by lee martell
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Or it could mean that King Ghidorah is waking up again.


29 posted on 10/16/2022 4:50:31 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (If Black Lives Matter, how do you explain Chicago?)
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The only thing to worry about is any changes in the predicted/observed trajectories through our solar system...

We’ll be waiting for the “bend over and kiss your butt goodby” order from the WH...


34 posted on 10/16/2022 5:15:58 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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3200 Phaethon is the progenitor of the Geminid Meteor shower.

Probably closer to a comet than an asteroid, Phaethon may simply be outgassing, which would cause a change in rotational speed.


35 posted on 10/16/2022 5:18:57 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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