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1 posted on 09/10/2013 9:09:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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“3200 Phaethon, an asteroid that is actually behaving like a comet.”

Next thing you know it’ll be declared a transgender asteroid!


2 posted on 09/10/2013 9:13:15 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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Asteroid Vs. Comet

Ditka.

4 posted on 09/10/2013 9:15:54 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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I’m guessing its a dusty asteroid.


5 posted on 09/10/2013 9:16:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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saw it skimming

underneath the radar

lots of dust trails

shootin past venus

somebody looked through a scope lens

and there they saw a rock

it was a rock comet

/b-52s


6 posted on 09/10/2013 9:17:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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the research team is calling Phaethon a “rock comet.”

So, what's on their 2014 "Tour" ?

7 posted on 09/10/2013 9:21:49 AM PDT by mikrofon (Cometroid Phaethon)
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It’s either a Cometoid, or an asteromet.


8 posted on 09/10/2013 9:22:02 AM PDT by DannyTN
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What is 3200 Phaeton?

Brutha to anotha mutha ass-roid Trayvon 420?

10 posted on 09/10/2013 9:30:44 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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