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Christmas 'Hippo' Asteroid Is Buzzing Earth, Its Closest Flyby in 400 Years
LiveScience.com ^
| Dec 22, 2018
| Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
Posted on 12/22/2018 11:58:39 AM PST by ETL
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To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
12/22/2018 1:27:10 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: ETL
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posted on
12/22/2018 1:32:19 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Hot Tabasco
"Go ahead, say it............a croissant" Yeah that's it, a croissant!
A croissant that's been eaten and digested.
I knew someone here would come
up with the right word for it.
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posted on
12/22/2018 1:38:08 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: ETL
I can see why they think it looks like a hippo. I can see why other people might be reminded of other things.
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posted on
12/22/2018 1:40:05 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: W.
Yes, I would name it the Hillary asteroid too. It looks like a tumbling hippo.
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posted on
12/22/2018 2:42:28 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: fieldmarshaldj; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
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posted on
12/22/2018 2:51:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: ETL
Will it be visible to earthlings ?
What direction to look ?
What is best time to view it?
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posted on
12/22/2018 3:55:52 PM PST
by
urtax$@work
(The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
To: All
We’re screwed if this thing penetrates our atmosphere.
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posted on
12/22/2018 4:02:53 PM PST
by
Peter ODonnell
(I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
To: Reily; StormEye; Deaf Smith; Hot Tabasco; the OlLine Rebel; BenLurkin; blueunicorn6; W.; ...
I didn't see it at first, but the image (orientation) on the left kind of resembles a hippo in profile, while the two on the right sort of look like, well, you know, "Mr Hanky", or whatever name you apply to "it".
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posted on
12/23/2018 7:33:01 AM PST
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: ETL
The circumference of the Earth's orbit around the Sun (I roughed it with simple geometry and ballpark numbers) is 584,335,740 miles. 1.8 million miles is .0000000030804209 or .00000030804209 percent. Closer call than it probably sounds -- and a one mile rock would end civilization (and probably kill nearly everyone, or everyone) if it smacked into the Earth.
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posted on
12/23/2018 4:50:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Eight six seven five three oh nine.)
Hippo asteroid pass 2018 site:youtube.com Google
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posted on
12/23/2018 4:51:49 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Eight six seven five three oh nine.)
To: ETL
The Captain on The Jungle Cruise Ride should be able to shoot it out of the Sky if it starts wiggling its Ears.
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posted on
12/23/2018 4:52:58 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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