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NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Detailed View of Oblong Asteroid
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| Feb. 17, 2023
Posted on 02/19/2023 10:11:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/19/2023 11:43:15 AM PST
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null and void
(You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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posted on
02/19/2023 11:54:08 AM PST
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skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: GingisK
their probability of hitting Washington DC during the State of the Union Address. Indistinguishable from zero.
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02/19/2023 11:58:37 AM PST
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
Isn’t that just disgusting?
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02/19/2023 12:01:27 PM PST
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GingisK
To: BenLurkin
space manatee...
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posted on
02/19/2023 12:03:54 PM PST
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4Liberty
(The Media has become one big ad for the sino-industrial complex.)
To: plain talk
To: plain talk
Bugles - The Snack That Conquered Space!
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posted on
02/19/2023 12:21:17 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a 1978 Pinto Hatchback encrusted with barnacles.
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02/19/2023 12:29:08 PM PST
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nanetteclaret
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: NorthMountain
“It’s an inert chunk of rock, orbiting in the vast wastes of interplanetary space.”
An inert chunk of rounded rock. What would be an explanation of the eroded and rounded profile?
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02/19/2023 2:18:21 PM PST
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Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: Clutch Martin
Two possibilities come quickly to mind ...
1) It may be more like a pile of rubble than a single chunk. Its own gravity would tend to make it round. I recall other objects turning out to be like that.
2) Eons of impacts from smaller objects may have blasted off all the rough edges.
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02/19/2023 6:08:34 PM PST
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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