A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 08-09-02

Billie and Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

[Mama_Bear]

Good morning everyone! It's Friday! Yippee!!

If you would like to be added or removed from the Finest thread ping list, FReepMail me - it will be done.

[Auntbee]

Good mornign and Happy Friday!

[Auntbee]

I meant "morning". Need caffeine!!!

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Mama.

[Aquamarine]

Good morning!
You two are the cutest couple, you all look like you have so much fun when you're freeping for Liberty. I think all the men driver's are really honking at you and all the women drivers are honking at chadsworth's pretty legs. :)

Lady In Red

Click on the pic

[JustAmy]

Congratulations my friends. It is so much fun having the two of you on Patriots Corner and FReeper Island. Enjoy being in the spotlight today.
See you tonight; Are you bringing additional FReepers?

[lodwick]

Good Morning Everyone

[Mixer]

[Mama_Bear]

Coffee for you! Nice to see you here so bright and early.

[Mama_Bear]

Good morning, Aeronaut. Happy Friday to you!

[ValerieUSA]

Love the beachpup! How cute.

[ValerieUSA]

Congratulations and thanks for all you do for AMERICA

[Mama_Bear]

Thank you, Aqua, for posting the lovely picture and the Lady in Red song for our honorees today. It's perfect!

Happy Friday to you!

[Mama_Bear]

Good morning Amy girl. You are up early this morning.

Count us in for the rally tonight. We will be there around 6:00. :-)

[JustAmy]

Come on over and greet our own chadsworth and Ladyinred!



Then join us on Patriots Corner and greet them in person!

[Mama_Bear]

Good morning! I really enjoy your photographs, Valerie. Very nice! Thanks for posting them here, and thanks for coming and helping us celebrate out featured FReepers.

[lodwick]

Henry's Cantina

[MeekOneGOP]

Happy Friday, ya'll !

I thought this was interesting. I'm breaking my binoculars out that night !

Look at that Asteroid (through binoculars!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/730083/posts

Excerpt:

Astronomers discovered the nearby asteroid, named 2002 NY40--not to be confused with better-known 2002 NT7--on July 14th. It measures about 800 meters across, and follows an orbit that ranges from the asteroid belt to the inner solar system. On August 18th, the asteroid will glide past our planet only 1.3 times farther away than the Moon.

"Flybys like this happen every 50 years or so," says Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program office at JPL. The last time (that we know of) was August 31, 1925, when another 800-meter asteroid passed by just outside the Moon's orbit. In those days there were no dedicated asteroid hunters--the object, 2001 CU11, wasn't discovered until 77 years later. At the time of the flyby, no one even knew it was happening.

2002 NY40 is different. We know the asteroid is coming, and astronomers have time to prepare.

[Mama_Bear]

'Morning lodwick. That's a beautiful picture of the Sierras. Love the colors!