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Astronomers discovered something strange about 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Phaethon
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| By Stefanie Waldek p
Posted on 10/16/2022 2:51:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
10/16/2022 2:51:43 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Can you imagine how dull your life must be if your job is to study, to the millisecond, changes in the spin of asteroids?
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posted on
10/16/2022 2:58:00 PM PDT
by
farmguy
To: farmguy
Infected with Space COVID?
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:01:15 PM PDT
by
OHPatriot
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: farmguy
Yeah, but they get all the hot chicks!…
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:04:01 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: farmguy
The ultimate cushy job. Probably gets two weeks paid vacation and uses it going to cosplay anime conventions.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:04:12 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
an average diameter of 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers). Close to planet killer class object.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:05:56 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BenLurkin
Just strolling by looking for a nice place to land ....
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:07:45 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: farmguy
Can you imagine how dull your life must be if your job is to study, to the millisecond, changes in the spin of asteroids? Computer modeling does all the heavy lifting.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:07:56 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BenLurkin
4 msec/year change? That means your observation next year would be off by what? An inch? A tenth of an inch?
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:08:16 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
To: BenLurkin
I bet if a 3.4 mile diameter asteroid hit Washington D.C., the impact would be heard in Denver...Chandeliers rocking in Las Vegas.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:14:51 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: farmguy
I worked for ten years at what was the worlds largest, telescopes. The Kecks in Hawaii.
These guys have quite a racket going and yes anything that allows them to publish a paper, is exciting for them.
Grant money, donor money, NSF money, et al.
Most professional Astronomers are very well paid for doing what most people would consider a “Hobby”.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:16:30 PM PDT
by
rellic
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:17:24 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: dragnet2
I bet if a 3.4 mile diameter asteroid hit Washington D.C., the impact would be heard in Denver...Chandeliers rocking in Las Vegas. That's if it's not made of antimatter.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:17:37 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: rellic
I agree, a lot of “professional astronomers” like to grandstand. Lots of grant hounds. Same goes for those in other sciences.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:23:56 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:30:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
To: farmguy
at least they aren’t blaming climate change for the spin, yet...
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:35:54 PM PDT
by
bobcat62
To: BenLurkin
okay another rock skipped off of it from another direction changing its spin pattern... Solved!! K boys lets go have a few for lunch!! First round is on me!!
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:44:00 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
( )
To: rellic
You upset Pele by being on top of Mauna Kea…
The locals have been protesting the TMT for years.
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:45:39 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: dragnet2
the ones that make the pretty pictures for APOD are aces at grandstanding!! taking parts of other’s work and cutting and pasting it together and calling it their own...
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:46:52 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
( )
To: BenLurkin
“The predictions from the shape model did not match the data,” Marshall said in a statement.”
So the models scientists create can be wrong?
L
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posted on
10/16/2022 3:47:08 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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