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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Asteroid 2005 YU55 Passes the Earth
NASA ^
| November 09, 2011
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 11/09/2011 3:36:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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11/09/2011 3:37:01 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/09/2011 3:38:28 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/09/2011 3:38:33 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/09/2011 3:42:19 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Is this a brain scan of Obama? ;-)
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posted on
11/09/2011 3:55:47 AM PST
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Dem Guard
(Obama's 57 States = The Organization of The Islamic Conference (OIC).)
To: SunkenCiv
So, when do the Timeshare developers show up?
To: Dem Guard
To big ,way to big!
Or are you referring to the density?
:)
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posted on
11/09/2011 4:20:18 AM PST
by
moose07
(The truth will out, one day.)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh yeah. Couldn’t even see it with the naked eye. Next.
To: Dem Guard
Back of Bill Clinton’s head.
To: SunkenCiv
Damn! That thing looks ominous. Guess we dodged another bullet.... until it assumes orbit around Earth and the shuttles start landing... (play Twilight Zone theme)...
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posted on
11/09/2011 6:06:41 AM PST
by
ixtl
( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
To: SunkenCiv
Why didn’t they get a better picture? Didn’t they have a good Nikon like me?
I also read somewhere that next time it comes (2036?) it might hit us? I don’t like that, I plan to still be alive...
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posted on
11/09/2011 8:26:22 AM PST
by
brytlea
(An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
To: SunkenCiv
...a rock this large hasn't passed this close since 1976 It seems to me that this could have happened a lot of times without us knowing.
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posted on
11/09/2011 8:29:37 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: SunkenCiv
I got to see it!
A couple of club members and I went out to the edge of town (helps when a member owns a construction yard).
We set up at 15in Dob and took turns watching this little chunk of charcoal just zipping along. It didn’t pass in front of any stars that we saw, but, it was close enough to many that you really got a feeling of movement.
It looked like it was the fastest moving non-manmade object I’ve seen that wasn’t burning.
Go out tonight and catch the Moon and Jupiter.
If you have a good western horizon, see if you can catch Mercury and Antares. You’ll need binoculars for this, but, it can be done.
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posted on
11/09/2011 9:20:55 AM PST
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
Ooops.
Mercury and Antares are near Venus.
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posted on
11/09/2011 9:21:48 AM PST
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
Just so long as it’s not near Uranus! :0)
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posted on
11/09/2011 10:12:43 AM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: SunkenCiv
Thank you sir. We are looking forward to seeing reams of NASA images.
Do you LAO know where we can find photos of the object which were taken by private citizens?
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posted on
11/09/2011 11:15:26 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: SunkenCiv; All
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posted on
11/09/2011 11:36:22 AM PST
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BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv
I heard an interview of an astrophysicist who said a colleague estimated that if this thing landed in an ocean it would raise a 70 meter tsunami. Wouldn't want to be around when something like that came ashore!
To: SunkenCiv
Wasn’t this supposed to hit the earth and generate an ELE?
Didn’t the world end last month sometime? Sigh...
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11/09/2011 2:14:47 PM PST
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TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
I think that was the 2012 wangdoodles, and the Nibiru nimrods.
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11/09/2011 4:17:41 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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