Posted on 12/22/2004 4:46:21 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mystery Object Orbits Earth A puzzling object just discovered in orbit around Earth might be an Apollo rocket on a fantastic journey through the solar system.
NASA
Sept. 20, 2002: Something odd is circling our planet. It's small, perhaps only 60-ft long, and rotates once every minute or so. Amateur astronomer Bill Yeung first spotted the 16th magnitude speck of light on Sept. 3rd in the constellation Pisces. He named it J002E3.
Automated asteroid surveys scan the skies every few weeks, yet there was no sign of Yeung's object earlier this year. "It must have entered Earth orbit recently," says Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program at JPL. "But it doesn't match any recently-launched spacecraft."
In other words, it's a mystery.
Could it be an alien spaceship? "If it is," says Chodas, "the aliens aren't good pilots. J002E3 is in a chaotic orbit. It loops around Earth once every 48 days or so, coming as close to our planet as the Moon and ranging as far away as two lunar distances." There's no evidence that the speck is moving under its own power. The orbit is constantly changing because of gravitational perturbations by the Sun and Moon.
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Wormwood falling to earth?
Was it ever determined what the object from that 2 year old report actually is?
Sigh. Everything is politics to you, isn't it? ;^)
From the animation it looks like the orbit is closing in on an earth intercept not to far out in the future
You are a bad man.
First foot on snow is on the ground....
Second foot is comin down. WOO HOO!
Even the Christmas decorations are covered with snow
Was exciting to see early this AM, but it'll be a while before we see brown again......
Take your snowshoes and skies....
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be careful. One advantage of being Jewish is that I can drive on Christmas Day, and it's supposed to be sunny and nice in KY. I'm hoping to make it all the way to Elizabethtown for the night, about a 12 hour drive under good conditions. I'm on my way to Texas!
Roads are OK till you get north of Columbus Indiana....Then....Bad.....
Probably missing votes in my state’s (Washington) gubernatorial election.
Friendly fellow FReeper pieced of advice . . . if you're going south on I-65, there is a nice motel at the first exit (there are only 2 exits in E-town). The La Quinta Inn is behind the Cracker Barrel and was just built this summer. I ended up staying there one night in August. VERY nice and cheapest place in town.
"Perturbators have hairy palms...."
Just until they need contact lenses!
Looks mightttyyy fine to me!
Uhhh Bevis did you see somethin in the sky, it was coool!
Winged Cat “From Hell” Put to Death in Central Russia
Created: 29.07.2004 12:06 MSK (GMT +3), MosNews
"A winged cat has been killed by villagers near the Central Russian city of Kursk. The locals drowned the deformed puss after believing it was a messenger of Satan, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.
"On entering her yard, Nadezhda Medvedeva saw how a stray cat stood up and, just like a chicken, stretched out two wings. She said that at that moment her hair stood on end. The locals had no doubt the unlucky cat was a messenger of the devil, the Vlasti.net website writes."
I'm having to watch that child closer....
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