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Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth (Asteroid 2005 YU 55)
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| 11/4/11
| Irene Klotz - Reuters
Posted on 11/04/2011 12:09:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: SunkenCiv
Orbital period of 1.2yrs. We ought to put some equipment on there for a nice ride.
To: WSGilcrest
Among others, Isaac Asimov suggested that be done with comets, to explore the extreme outer solar system. The problems include building something that can catch, and then grab hold of, a comet. :’)
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posted on
11/05/2011 8:15:06 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
...No worries mate!!!
...Well, maybe no worries yet...
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posted on
11/05/2011 8:28:06 AM PDT
by
gargoyle
(...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Why is there only one picture of this thing?
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posted on
11/05/2011 9:18:09 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: gargoyle
;’) Our next ice age is riding on one of these. :’)
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posted on
11/05/2011 4:19:12 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/05/2011 4:29:11 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Did you want to talk or fish? Or feed the fish?)
To: BenLurkin
Because the pinhole camera only had one exposure of the Idaho Potato.
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posted on
11/05/2011 7:15:34 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: BenLurkin; Las Vegas Dave
The one pic that exists is a radar image, taken over a year ago, probably during its previous (not very) close encounter with Earth. The reason it was even practical is that the rock is a quarter mile across. Tuesday will probably find us lousy with new pictures, including in the optical spectrum.
Thanks again LVD, here’s the simulation of the flyby:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/x/jdg/2005yu55/2005_YU55_approach_movie.gif
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posted on
11/05/2011 7:15:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: PLMerite
I read that you would need a telescope to see it. Wish I had one, I would love to get some images.
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posted on
11/05/2011 7:59:17 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
To: alancarp
To: SunkenCiv
If the NASA channel was run like L.A. local news, we would already have “live team coverage” with a real time radar image on one side of the split screen and nonstop talking heads on the other.
Hope you’re right and that we are lousy with lots of pictures (and not be presented with lots of lousy pictures)
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posted on
11/06/2011 8:26:00 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
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To: cripplecreek
No blood for assteroids!! man
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posted on
11/06/2011 8:55:58 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
To: cripplecreek
funny how that comet flies STRAIGHT by the earth, without the slightest wiggle from the tug of gravity.
Must be moving at a real good clip to come this close without even acknowledging our mass.
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posted on
11/06/2011 9:06:17 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
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To: rawcatslyentist
Could also be that is why it comes so close this orbit?
Then next trip, we are no longer "there" but further ahead?
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posted on
11/06/2011 9:10:51 AM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: txhurl
But will it be visible? I want to see it!
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posted on
11/06/2011 9:31:14 AM PST
by
little jeremiah
(We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
NASA has captured a new radar image of 2005 YU55, the huge asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow (Nov. 8).
This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained on Nov. 7, 2011, at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), when the space rock was at 3.6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1.38 million kilometers, from Earth. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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posted on
11/07/2011 5:45:53 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: BenLurkin; All
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posted on
11/07/2011 5:48:55 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Assclown Richard C. Hoagland, who appears on Coast to Coast, has a rumor about NASA making a launch from Vanderburg tomorrow. The purpose is to observe the asteroid or use a nuke to nudge it away.
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posted on
11/07/2011 10:29:48 PM PST
by
doug from upland
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To: Tenacious 1
For Gawds Sakes! Somebody do something!!!! When in trouble
When in doubt
Run in circles
And scream and shout!
Don't forget to wave your hands about.
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posted on
11/07/2011 10:38:18 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/08/2011 5:41:21 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
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