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2 posted on 11/07/2013 12:21:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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Astronomers ‘dumbfounded’ by six-tailed asteroid
http://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-dumbfounded-six-tailed-asteroid-193129286.html

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.

“We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it,” astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. “It’s hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid.”

Asteroids normally have no tails.

The asteroid, known as P/2013 P5, first appeared as a fuzzy point of light in a sky survey by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in August.


3 posted on 11/07/2013 12:23:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe it is looking for Obama.


11 posted on 11/07/2013 12:39:51 PM PST by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Which way is the Sun in these photographs?


16 posted on 11/07/2013 3:54:31 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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