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Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011..
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| March 10th, 2011
Posted on 03/25/2011 9:39:33 AM PDT by TaraP
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:39:35 AM PDT
by
TaraP
To: All
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:40:33 AM PDT
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TaraP
(An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
To: Quix
Maybe this is what this 11/11 is all about?
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:41:41 AM PDT
by
TaraP
(An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
To: TaraP
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: All
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:45:23 AM PDT
by
TaraP
(An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
To: TaraP
I guess I won’t be able to get a cool photo of it like I did the super moon.
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:49:00 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(A tick stole my tagline....)
To: TaraP
I wonder if amateur stargazers will be able to see it?
Don't most of the common 114mm Newtons reach 12th magnitude?
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:50:48 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: TaraP
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:53:33 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: TaraP
Awww hell, that'l miss by a mile.
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posted on
03/25/2011 9:58:48 AM PDT
by
Musketeer
To: TaraP
Maybe this is what this 11/11 is all about? 0.00160 AU. An AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth, or 93 million miles. By my calculations, 0.00160 AU is about 150,000 miles. Close but not too close.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:00:35 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: TaraP
The good news about that chart is that the moon will not be in a position to gravitationally deflect the object towards Earth.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:02:02 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: TaraP
And they think Barringer was a 50 meter iron-nickel. It would be nice if it stayed .85 lunars away, eh?
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:02:40 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: TaraP
From the animation, it looks like whoever’s shooting at us is using tracer.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:03:13 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.)
To: brytlea
Did you get the cape?
What did you use for taking the picture?I have actual telescope cameras but all boxed up now so my attempt used a Panasonic digital camcorder with 78x zoom.Had to back off slightly from max zoom.Local humidty caused slight haloing ,camera IS setting was needed to get in-focus picture because no tripod was used.
Personally I didn't feel the moon looked any bigger than usual.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:03:21 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: TaraP
Ah, misread the article, the .00016 AU is closest approch to the moon. It will stay over 200K miles away from the Earth.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: TaraP
within 0.85 lunar distances
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That’s cutting it pretty fine..
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:08:58 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: dirtboy
The average distance between the Earth and Moon is 238,857 miles.
So .85 lunar distance would equal approximately 203,028 miles.
To: TaraP
FEMA has been quietly stockpiling a billion MRE’s. They say it’s a terrorism contingency. You wouldn’t need to feed a billion people under the worst terrorism contingency conceivable.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:23:24 AM PDT
by
balch3
To: TaraP
What if it hits the moon? I bet that that would make an interesting picture.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:24:07 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: fhayek
Using my finger and thumb as a precision measuring device, I deduce that it will be closer than 100,000 to the moon.
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posted on
03/25/2011 10:25:35 AM PDT
by
fhayek
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