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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Or just read the Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Interesting but so far unexplained aspect is that it apparently entered the system at 26 kilometers per second, much slower than its exit speed of 87KmS, but did not pass close enough to any large body/planet to have picked up that speed. See: "Interstellar" Asteroid Raises Mysteries

20 posted on 12/20/2017 7:02:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Didn’t it pass pretty close to the sun???


62 posted on 12/20/2017 9:35:41 AM PST by Boogieman
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