NASA says Mystery Object Orbits Earth

NASA ^ | 9/20/02 | NASA

[Pete]

You - have - found - our - stronghold.

[spunkets]

You were right the first time, it's TiO₂. Ti⁴⁺ is very stable. Ti²⁺ would never last longer than a few hours in air. The space.com guy got it wrong.

[weikel]

LOL where is that from?

[crypt2k]

Solar Guard web site: http://www.solarguard.com/tc2cas12.htm

[crypt2k]

See post 24.

[Old Professer]

Might wanna check for a Cal plate; seems a guy was painting cars in Simi Valley Ca. using that type of paint he "borrowed" from his worksite in 1974 up on the hill in Black Canyon, at the Rocketdyne engine-test stand facility; about $100-250 a pop, paint and materials.

[Kermit]

I think the astronauts spray-painted some grafitti on an asteroid.;^)

Question for our Science types: Would it be worthwhile to capture this space debris to determine how when the metal holds up for 31 years in space and also see how many micro-asteroids it got hit with?

[ofMagog]

Coming up 1100 Saturday
Almost to Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group

Anyone know what happened to Scuttlebutt's still? Last I heard he was waiting on the mash to get just right and lit up a cigar...

[CharacterCounts]

"Orbiting the Sun," answers Chodas. "I've traced the motion of J002E3 backwards in time to find out where it's been," he explains. Apparently, J002E3 left Earth in 1971, went around the Sun 30 or so times, and came back again. Chodas, a expert in planetary motion who has seen plenty of complicated orbits, says "I've never seen anything like this."

How can this be? I thought the moon missions were faked. At least according to some of the posters here on FR they were.

[hellinahandcart]

He named it J002E3.

Space Joos! Those wacky tinfoilers were right, they *do* exist!

[Pippin]

So that's the loud explosion I heard!

[ofMagog]

Scuttlebutt won't have to shave for several days.

[ptrey]

Must be the 2 end-time prophets waiting for orders to land. Sure explains where Elijah went.

[Las Vegas Dave]

EXTERMINATE-EXTERMINATE-EXTERMINATE.........

(FYI: from Dr.Who scifi series, an evil robot, a Dalek)

[aruanan]

It's aready been identified as definately a rocket booster. Spectral analysis shows that it is covered in TiO2 a key ingredient in paint that was used on the Saturn V boosters.

Maybe it's a giant nose.

[Pippin]

LOL!! NOPE!

[Pippin]

You a Dr.Who fan too?

[6ppc]

[Constitution Day]

Space Joos!

AAAAH! THE SPACE JOOS! AAAAAAAAAH!

[ovrtaxt]

All your Joo2E3 are belong to us.

Now, if it exerts a lot of gravitational pull, it's probably Hillary's @$$.