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Bus-Size Asteroid Gives Earth Super-Close Shave Today, Second in 2 Days
Yahoo ^ | 2/6/14 | Mike Wall -Space.com

Posted on 03/06/2014 2:27:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge

For the second day in a row, a space rock is going to zip close by Earth within the orbit of the moon, and you can watch the encounter live online.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; catastrophism
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ouch. Was it also bud-size?


41 posted on 03/07/2014 4:20:58 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Well, since it is maintaining its course and scheduled speed, it certainly isn't city public transportation.

And it didn't stop.......................

42 posted on 03/07/2014 7:15:23 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

The Hubble Space Telescope is roughly “bus sized” ...

Unlike an asteroid, it’s hollow.


43 posted on 03/07/2014 7:20:27 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

And stationary...............


44 posted on 03/07/2014 7:22:27 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: lurk
The big question is, which city or country is most deserving of a God-directed thumping by such a rock?

I wouldn't feel too safe in San Francisco right about now.

45 posted on 03/07/2014 7:23:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

Hubble is in LEO ... eventually, we’re going to de-orbit it. I fully expect the event to be routine ... unlike a similarly sized hunk of rock coming down from interplanetary speeds.


46 posted on 03/07/2014 7:24:36 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

The Hubble has been so fantastic and we have learned so much from it, it should be saved somehow, not allowed to fall into the atmosphere and burn up like some piece of trash......................


47 posted on 03/07/2014 7:27:18 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

Well ... we could bring it down in the Space Shuttle ...

(Oh. Yeah.)


48 posted on 03/07/2014 7:29:28 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

Could we use the last of its fuel to put it in some safe orbit for a long time until it could be retrieved by some future astronauts?....................


49 posted on 03/07/2014 7:36:38 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

Sorry ... no. Pointing and tracking is done with reaction wheels. It depended on service visits from the Shuttle for orbit stabilization.

IIRC, the original plan actually was to bring it home at the end of a shuttle mission. That’s obviously not going to happen.


50 posted on 03/07/2014 7:44:36 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: who knows what evil?
That's easy...the city which had done more damage to America than any other...Boston, Massachusetts. Pure evil.

I thought that was Ithaca, NY.

51 posted on 03/07/2014 7:55:08 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Sorry...Ithaca (evil as it is) hasn’t sent as many vile progressives out across the nation as Boston...second place, Ithaca. :-)


52 posted on 03/07/2014 8:53:53 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: NorthMountain

IIRC, the ESA has plans for another Hubble-like space telescope with much more technology inside that will allow us to see even further and more higher resolution than the Hubble.................


53 posted on 03/07/2014 8:58:30 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: GeronL

Only felt bus sized.


54 posted on 03/07/2014 10:26:00 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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