Posted on 03/08/2014 4:57:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Hubble Space Telescope spotted something no one had ever seen before: an asteroid shattering into as many as 10 smaller pieces.
“This is a really bizarre thing to observe–we’ve never seen anything like this,” Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany said in a statement.
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Asteroid P/2013 R3 was discovered last September 15 by the Catalina and Pan-STARRS sky surveys. At first, all astronomers saw was a faint, fuzzy object. Then, a couple of weeks later, the great Keck Telescope in Hawaii took a closer look and saw not one but three separate pieces traveling convoy-fashion in their own dust cloud.
By the time December rolled around, the asteroid had crumbled into 10 pieces. The four largest pieces measure about 650 feet (200 meters) across or, the length of two football fields each. The Hubble data show that the fragments are slowly drifting slowly apart at the leisurely speed of about one mile per hour.
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How does this help make Muslims feel good about themselves. Investigating this meteor is a waste of resources.
The Hubble data show that the fragments are slowly drifting slowly apart at the leisurely speed of about one mile per hour.???
If the pieces do not coalesce from their gravitational attraction to each other then how does that space vehicle gravitational tow truck idea work.
No matter cause, it ares is
So much for NASA (bye Byed by bo)
but fret not
bo’s gone talk to US on the cosmos show and impress Vlad Russian Putin.
“At first, all astronomers saw was a faint, fuzzy object.”
Stupid pigeons.
Made of the same stuff as Southeast Michigan roads.
It's proof that the Death Star approaches.
Look behind the nearest planet!
I was thinking a video game from the 80’s . Asteroid. UFO’s must of shot the rocks.
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