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The Curious Tale of Asteroid Hermes (Look up this week and watch asteroid sail by!)
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Posted on 11/03/2003 2:41:03 PM PST by mhking
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Hermes in October 2003
Hermes orbit which brings it into the inner Solar System every 777 days
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posted on
11/03/2003 2:41:04 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
11/03/2003 2:41:28 PM PST
by
mhking
To: mhking
I read a good book recently that touched on how many comets may be/are whizzing around the outer solar system. Not that anyone should prepare. If one of these ever connects, I doubt we'll need to worry about the aftermath.
To: mhking
Why worry about Earth...look how close it's orbit will pass to Mars.
To: ETERNAL WARMING
We should be able to see it with the naked eye, shouldn't we? Aren't we getting ready for the meteorite showers?
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posted on
11/03/2003 4:30:52 PM PST
by
dixie sass
(GOD bless America)
To: mhking
Hermes is about 1 km across. The Chicxulub object was about 10 km across.
Hermes is much too small to pasteurize the planet, but could still really ruin somone's whole week...
To: RadioAstronomer
Ping, PONG!!!
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posted on
11/03/2003 7:41:10 PM PST
by
Ogmios
(Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
To: null and void
Hermes orbit which brings it into the inner Solar System every 777 days Interesting number.
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posted on
12/07/2003 12:23:12 AM PST
by
Indie
(We were warned. My people perish for lack of knowledge.)
To: Indie; Quix
Even more interesting number now knowing that Hermes is a binary.
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posted on
12/07/2003 12:28:37 AM PST
by
Indie
(We were warned. My people perish for lack of knowledge.)
To: null and void
Hermes is much too small to pasteurize the planet, but could still really ruin somone's whole week...Remember, it's actually two asteroids approximately 400 meters in diameter each. Depending on the angle of impact, if both struck two different regions of this planet, or if both struck America, it would kill literally millions upon million of people, and I have no doubt, it would be a climate changing event for this planet, for some years to follow.....
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posted on
12/07/2003 12:49:34 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: Joe Hadenuf
Meteor Crater, just east of Flagstaff AZ is really worth a visit. Quite impressive what an asteroid impact can do.
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posted on
12/07/2003 1:05:26 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Joe Hadenuf
It would also depend on the composition of the "rocks". Iron cored they would slam but otherwise they could probably disintegrate and/or explode in the atmosphere like the one in siberia causeing massive damage to a probably unpopulated forest.
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posted on
12/07/2003 1:11:01 AM PST
by
Dosa26
To: ETERNAL WARMING
Why worry about Earth...look how close it's orbit will pass to Mars
Cause if it hits Mars I can enjoy the show if it hit's Earth, wellllllll........
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posted on
12/07/2003 1:13:22 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Kozak
Depends on where...
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:11:33 AM PST
by
null and void
(The meek shall inherit the Earth. The Stars belong to the bold.)
To: mhking
Shoemaker died in 1997 not knowing how close he came.Story of my life.
I always die before knowing how close I came.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:15:09 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
To: Kozak
Cause if it hits Mars I can enjoy the show if it hit's Earth, wellllllll.................you'll still enjoy the show.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:16:12 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
To: mhking
We had an asteroid when I was a kid - name was Benny. He would "sit" and "roll over" but he kept on pooping in the living room and my Dad gave him away.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:41:47 AM PST
by
sandydipper
(Never quit - never surrender!)
To: Lazamataz
I always die before knowing how close I came.
There's a play on words in there somewhere but I ain't touching it.
I knew a girl like that once, she would always pass out right at the end.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:54:04 AM PST
by
tet68
To: tet68
I knew a girl like that once, she would always pass out right at the end.Boy, you must have really knocked the bottom out of that.
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posted on
12/07/2003 9:56:41 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
To: Dosa26
You bet.
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posted on
12/07/2003 10:02:01 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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