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Giant asteroid flying by Earth next week looks like it's wearing a face mask
CNN ^
| 04/23/2020
| Ashley Strickland
Posted on 04/23/2020 6:56:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The asteroid is called 52768 (1998 OR2), and it was first spotted in 1998.
On April 29, it will pass within 3,908,791 miles of Earth, moving at 19,461 miles per hour. That's still 16 times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon.
The flyby is expected to occur on Wednesday, April 29, at 5:56 a.m. ET, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The center tracks Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, that could collide with Earth.
Arecibo Observatory is a National Science Foundation facility managed by the University of Central Florida. A team of experts has been monitoring this near-Earth asteroid, among others. The observatory is supported by NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program and has been analyzing asteroids since the mid-'90s.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 1998or2; 52768; arecibo; areciboobservatory; asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; boob; catastrophism; cnn; nosecone; science
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CNN sees a face mask. I see something entirely different. Not saying what.
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posted on
04/23/2020 6:56:19 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Just a view port. Fekkin tourists.
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posted on
04/23/2020 6:59:35 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:00:00 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Live free, or die!)
To: BenLurkin
No, it doesn’t. Now the media is hallucinating.
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:00:49 PM PDT
by
madison10
(Wash your hands & say your prayers cause Jesus & germs are everywhere)
To: BenLurkin
Face mask?
I see my last mammogram!
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:01:31 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:02:34 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama Fascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: wastedyears
That is kinda weird, man.
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:06:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: wastedyears
what kind of animals are playing in her shirt?
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:06:49 PM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
To: madison10
Did they ever find that plane that disappeared in the vortex
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posted on
04/23/2020 7:09:45 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
To: BenLurkin
?😷?
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04/23/2020 7:10:09 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: bankwalker
Pokemon. ...I think. ....Pikachu?
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04/23/2020 7:10:50 PM PDT
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
To: BenLurkin
Um, that’s not what it looks like to me.
To: Candor7
Keep your eyes open. They usually travel in pairs.
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04/23/2020 7:11:41 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: wastedyears
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04/23/2020 7:12:13 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: wastedyears
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04/23/2020 7:14:15 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
To: BenLurkin
If we are to meet our end, we could do worse than boobegeddon.
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04/23/2020 7:14:22 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
Facemask? Is CNN composed completely of homosexuals?
To: 2111USMC
Keep your eyes open. They usually travel in pairs.>>
That and an obvious eye over the shoulder for the event horizon of a black hole. Things could get positively stimulated from here to Uranus.
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04/23/2020 7:16:46 PM PDT
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Candor7
(Obama Fascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: BenLurkin
This proves something more about CNN than it does anything else.
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04/23/2020 7:17:22 PM PDT
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xp38
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