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To: LasVegasMac

Notice the position of the Moon.
Safely out of harms way.


Actually not. It the GIF propagated for a couple more days, it would intersect the moon's position as well. BTW, did notice the moon bouncing like a buckboard on an unpaved road? If it does hit the moon, there will a most bodacious meteor shower a day or two later.


84 posted on 12/24/2004 10:13:19 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; tortoise

Just a bit of curiousity, perhaps you can help me.

Mass of the 2004MN4 is given as 4.6e+10 kg

The online converter I used gave that as 39811 kilograms

That converted to 87,768.2311984 pounds, or almost 44 tons.

That seems like an awfully small number for an object with a diamter of .320 km (about a fifth of a mile), unless it's frozen gas.

Oh, wait, never mind... I found this page works better:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_all.htm

46000000000 kilogram = 101,412,640,605.044 pounds
46000000000 kilogram = 50,706,320.3025218 tons [short]

Fifty million tons. Much better.


232 posted on 02/28/2005 10:43:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, February 20, 2005.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Hi. Just a bttt, with a useful link.
Google

250 posted on 05/12/2005 10:36:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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