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1 posted on 04/17/2007 4:41:53 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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Who decides whether it’s a moon (natural satellite) or not?
2 posted on 04/17/2007 4:44:55 PM PDT by kinoxi
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3 posted on 04/17/2007 4:45:35 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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6R10DB9, the source of global warming? ;o)


4 posted on 04/17/2007 4:46:38 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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"The meter-size object, designated 6R10DB9,"

I've got the whole moon, in my hands,
I've got the whole wide moon, in...

Couldn't resist :^)
5 posted on 04/17/2007 4:48:19 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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That flight path is interesting... even more interesting that we can detect and calculate that for a 1 meter object!


6 posted on 04/17/2007 4:54:01 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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Remember the end of “Maximum Overdrive”?


7 posted on 04/17/2007 4:55:09 PM PDT by Havok (I like meat, guns, and comic books. Am I a bad conservative?)
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9 posted on 04/17/2007 5:09:03 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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Maybe it originated from Pluto. Better watch it close.


11 posted on 04/17/2007 5:12:50 PM PDT by panzer_grey
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Technically, the electronic satellites orbiting Earth are also moons (or at least satellites). Some of them (such as the ISS), probably mass more than this object.
13 posted on 04/17/2007 5:26:07 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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They must mean Earth’s *other* other moon. I knew there was a second one with a name (Cruithne) instead of a letter number deal...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2251386.stm


14 posted on 04/17/2007 5:26:38 PM PDT by GoLightly
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So, they finally discovered the lost brain of Rosie O’donald.
15 posted on 04/17/2007 5:27:37 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey
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bump for later reading


16 posted on 04/17/2007 5:42:52 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
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Reading the headline I thought this would be about Jerry Brown.


17 posted on 04/17/2007 6:41:18 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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"That’s typical of the paths followed by spent rocket boosters left over from space missions of the 1960s and 70s." Could it be??....


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19 posted on 04/17/2007 6:58:02 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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le kewl!


21 posted on 04/17/2007 7:01:25 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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Alien probe flyby.

You have been probed.
28 posted on 04/17/2007 8:35:55 PM PDT by omnivore
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Maybe God doesn’t play dice, but it sure looks like he plays Spirograph.


31 posted on 04/17/2007 8:40:07 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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Old news


38 posted on 04/17/2007 10:09:37 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never Let a Fundie Near a Textbook. Teach Evolution!)
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M O O N That spells MOON. :oP
39 posted on 04/17/2007 10:18:08 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
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