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To: Velveeta

I can't find anything on the net about the comet. I talked to friends up in Washington and they heard the boom of that comet. But there is nothing about a big NEO coming soon. weird.


2,237 posted on 06/04/2004 1:56:56 PM PDT by mindspy
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2,241 posted on 06/04/2004 2:05:29 PM PDT by milkncookies (BEWARE OF PREGNANT WOMEN DISGUISED AS POLICE WHO SMELL LIKE DYNAMITE!)
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To: mindspy
Check http://www.spaceweather.com

They have a list of PHA's (potentially hazardous asteroids) about 2/3 down the front page.

Click on 1998 SF36, which on June 26th will be five lunar distances from earth. This is a pretty big rock and will pass very close to us (astronomically speaking). I think people may be speculating that there are clouds of smaller debris surrounding these big rocks, so we may get hit by smaller rocks even though we don't get broadsided by the bigger one.

That's the closest of anything I know of until sometime in September. Then there is a very strange asteroid that will actually ride along beside us for a while, kind of like 2 horses in a race.

I think we are in the clear on the comets. It looks like LINEAR has already passed beyond earth.

I think LINEAR came from the south and was only visible in the southern hemisphere.
2,243 posted on 06/04/2004 2:12:46 PM PDT by rickylc
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We need to get our Freeper Science geeks to this thread!


2,325 posted on 06/04/2004 7:12:52 PM PDT by JustPiper (The "7/11 Mata Hari Slurpee" Piper)
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