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Bus-Size Asteroid Gives Earth Super-Close Shave Today, Second in 2 Days
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| 2/6/14
| Mike Wall -Space.com
Posted on 03/06/2014 2:27:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
For the second day in a row, a space rock is going to zip close by Earth within the orbit of the moon, and you can watch the encounter live online.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; catastrophism
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To: ApplegateRanch
Ouch. Was it also bud-size?
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posted on
03/07/2014 4:20:58 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Well, since it is maintaining its course and scheduled speed, it certainly isn't city public transportation. And it didn't stop.......................
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:15:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
The Hubble Space Telescope is roughly “bus sized” ...
Unlike an asteroid, it’s hollow.
To: NorthMountain
And stationary...............
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:22:27 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: lurk
The big question is, which city or country is most deserving of a God-directed thumping by such a rock? I wouldn't feel too safe in San Francisco right about now.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:23:57 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Red Badger
Hubble is in LEO ... eventually, we’re going to de-orbit it. I fully expect the event to be routine ... unlike a similarly sized hunk of rock coming down from interplanetary speeds.
To: NorthMountain
The Hubble has been so fantastic and we have learned so much from it, it should be saved somehow, not allowed to fall into the atmosphere and burn up like some piece of trash......................
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:27:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
Well ... we could bring it down in the Space Shuttle ...
(Oh. Yeah.)
To: NorthMountain
Could we use the last of its fuel to put it in some safe orbit for a long time until it could be retrieved by some future astronauts?....................
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:36:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
Sorry ... no. Pointing and tracking is done with reaction wheels. It depended on service visits from the Shuttle for orbit stabilization.
IIRC, the original plan actually was to bring it home at the end of a shuttle mission. That’s obviously not going to happen.
To: who knows what evil?
That's easy...the city which had done more damage to America than any other...Boston, Massachusetts. Pure evil. I thought that was Ithaca, NY.
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posted on
03/07/2014 7:55:08 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: COBOL2Java
Sorry...Ithaca (evil as it is) hasn’t sent as many vile progressives out across the nation as Boston...second place, Ithaca. :-)
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posted on
03/07/2014 8:53:53 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: NorthMountain
IIRC, the ESA has plans for another Hubble-like space telescope with much more technology inside that will allow us to see even further and more higher resolution than the Hubble.................
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posted on
03/07/2014 8:58:30 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: GeronL
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posted on
03/07/2014 10:26:00 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
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