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To: anymouse

How large is the comet? What trajectory is it on? ... Could be coming apart and making several ‘objects’ to track.


27 posted on 11/07/2013 7:50:01 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

Astronomers viewing our solar system’s asteroid belt with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel.

Unlike all other known asteroids, which appear simply as tiny points of light, this asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, resembles a rotating lawn sprinkler. Astronomers are puzzled over the asteroid’s unusual appearance.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/november/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroid-spouting-six-comet-like-tails/#.UnxijuKd4Uq


28 posted on 11/07/2013 8:04:32 PM PST by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: MHGinTN

It’ll be here by Xmas, and three kings from the middle-east will follow it’s path, and will bring gifts to the newborn...

And the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists will strap bombs to their cheats, and...


29 posted on 11/07/2013 8:08:08 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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