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Artificial object in trans-lunar orbit will impact Earth Nov 13
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Posted on 11/02/2015 4:08:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/02/2015 6:34:05 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
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posted on
11/02/2015 6:38:26 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BenLurkin
Bring it. Time for things to end instead of going on like they are.
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posted on
11/02/2015 6:41:15 PM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Sequoyah101
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posted on
11/02/2015 6:57:31 PM PST
by
xp38
To: BenLurkin
Why say it’s artificial and not say what it actually is?
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posted on
11/02/2015 7:08:08 PM PST
by
ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
To: ro_dreaming
Why say it’s artificial and not say what it actually is? Because they don't know what it is.
Due to the orbit, it's not a naturally occurring object. It's something WE (mankind) put into that orbit, either on a lunar or interplanetary mission.
From the linked article:
The motion of this body over about two years can be modelled in detail only if the effects of solar radiation pressure are taken into account. The intensity of this solar push is proportional to the object's area-to-mass ratio, which can therefore be estimated, providing an indirect clue to its density. It turns out that this body has a mean density that is about 10% that of water. This is too low to be a natural space rock, but it is compatible with being a hollow shell, such as the spent upper stage of a rocket.
To: smokingfrog
Reentered and burned up July 1995
To: smokingfrog
I am betting it burned up as its trajectory when they jettisoned it was headed toward earth. I think it was Apollo 12’s SV-B that was lost and found and maybe lost again, could be one of those from a different mission.
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posted on
11/03/2015 11:35:34 AM PST
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sarge83
To: sarge83
I looked it up. They sent the Apollo 13 service module on a trajectory to impact the moon. The Apollo 12 S-IVB is still floating around up there - somewhere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB
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posted on
11/03/2015 11:44:38 AM PST
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Despot of the Delta
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posted on
11/03/2015 11:49:30 AM PST
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smokingfrog
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
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posted on
11/03/2015 4:18:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/03/2015 6:27:04 PM PST
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Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
11/04/2015 11:37:11 AM PST
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sarge83
To: sarge83
Or the Apollo 16 lunar module? They couldn’t control it after undocking, but I would think it crashed into the moon long ago.
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posted on
11/04/2015 5:28:43 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
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