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NASA remains perplexed by mysterious crumbling asteroid
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| Saturday, March 08, 2014
| Delila James |
Posted on 03/08/2014 4:57:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
03/08/2014 4:57:17 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Cheap Chinese asteroid.......
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posted on
03/08/2014 4:57:58 PM PST
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:03:36 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Toddsterpatriot
Rice rocket.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:03:56 PM PST
by
arderkrag
(An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
To: BenLurkin
Green Cheese. Problem solved. And a new Chinese buffet has arrived.
To: JoeDetweiler
NASA is perplexed because an obama nominee is in charge....duh
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:08:04 PM PST
by
Josa
To: BenLurkin
It’s simple really, it was taken out of the oven to soon.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:12:24 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: BenLurkin
We are being lied to about so much...
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:35:44 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: BenLurkin
Just because it's called an asteroid doesn't mean it's a solid mass.
That is, isn't the largest object in the asteroid belt an accretion of smaller objects? Perhaps the core of this one is a form of ice, and has started to out-gas?
Wasn't there a comet about 5.5 years ago that balloon up to the size of Earth or larger, as it approached the Sun?
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:55:31 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Calvin Locke
Yeah one current line of thinking is that at least some of the asteroids are just dormant comets. They have enough rock and dust on their surfaces to insulate the ice till something disturbs them or they orbit close to the sun.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:58:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: BenLurkin
Man...those laser pointer things are really powerful. I was just messing around pointing it up in the sky, and now this asteroid is all broken up. I wonder what would happen if I pointed it at Jeff’s house? No....that would be wrong.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:58:45 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
There is a good possibility that this happens a lot. This is because both within a few days before and a few days after a larger body passes by Earth, other bodies also show up, on generally the same path.
To: BenLurkin
Personally I’m guessing it was just a floating rubble pile and hit a smaller asteroid that caused the pile to break up.
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posted on
03/08/2014 5:59:49 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
We’ve seen a few of these in recent years.
I was watching one of the alien conspiracy shows last night and they were talking about another one that was breaking up like this.
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posted on
03/08/2014 6:01:42 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: BenLurkin
The alien craft formerly at the center of the object has obviously shed its cloaking material & is long-gone towards home base, having collected all the required intelligence” on Sol-3 as directed ....
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posted on
03/08/2014 6:02:18 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(* Relatively Speaking)
To: BenLurkin
Not enough egg in the recipe.
To: BenLurkin
Mother ship, delivering smaller ships.
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posted on
03/08/2014 6:10:12 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
To: BenLurkin
See if there is a sudden surge of illegal aliens now.
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posted on
03/08/2014 6:13:20 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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