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Mystery Object Orbits Earth
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Posted on 12/22/2004 4:46:21 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mystery Object Orbits Earth A puzzling object just discovered in orbit around Earth might be an Apollo rocket on a fantastic journey through the solar system.
NASA
Sept. 20, 2002: Something odd is circling our planet. It's small, perhaps only 60-ft long, and rotates once every minute or so. Amateur astronomer Bill Yeung first spotted the 16th magnitude speck of light on Sept. 3rd in the constellation Pisces. He named it J002E3.
Automated asteroid surveys scan the skies every few weeks, yet there was no sign of Yeung's object earlier this year. "It must have entered Earth orbit recently," says Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program at JPL. "But it doesn't match any recently-launched spacecraft."
In other words, it's a mystery.
Could it be an alien spaceship? "If it is," says Chodas, "the aliens aren't good pilots. J002E3 is in a chaotic orbit. It loops around Earth once every 48 days or so, coming as close to our planet as the Moon and ranging as far away as two lunar distances." There's no evidence that the speck is moving under its own power. The orbit is constantly changing because of gravitational perturbations by the Sun and Moon.
(Excerpt) Read more at science.nasa.gov ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apollo12; j002e3; nasa; ufo
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To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:48:24 PM PST
by
kcar
(theUNsucks.com)
To: Sub-Driver
Silly NASA.
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:48:50 PM PST
by
lindor
To: Sub-Driver
Good Lord!!! Michael Moore has gotten so big that he's now orbiting the earth!!!! : )
To: Sub-Driver
60-ft long, and rotates once every minute or so.J-Lo's derriere?
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:49:53 PM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:50:22 PM PST
by
ProudVet77
(Sorry, silly season has arrived.)
To: Sub-Driver
Calypso Louis was right! Its the mothership and boy, you whiteys gonna git it now!
Where's that tin foil dag nabit! :^)
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:50:31 PM PST
by
pipecorp
(this space no longer exists)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:51:04 PM PST
by
microgood
(Washington State: Ukraine without the poison)
To: lindor
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:51:23 PM PST
by
Tempest
(Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
In the recent Starship Trooper's movie, big fat bugs shot interstellar missiles out of their backsides.
Now imagine... Micheal Moore... on a beach... polluting space....
60 feet long, does not seem inconceivable.
To: ProudVet77
He said "perturbations".Perturbators have hairy palms....
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:54:46 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
( I shoot every third sales person... and the second just left.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
J-Lo's derriere? Sounds like a plea for pictures to me! LOL
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:55:45 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
To: Sub-Driver
Physics question concering what type of artifical gravity, if any, is generated by a 60 second rotation for a small circumference like that.
To: Bluegrass Conservative
Ha, you beat me by 35 seconds.
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:56:33 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
Thank you. Thank you very much!
PS: I will be driving through the Bluegrass State this weekend. I just checked the weather page and see it's supposed to be -7 in Louisville on Friday night!!!
To: ProudVet77
Huh huh huh
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:56:50 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
To: Sub-Driver
There's no evidence that the speck is moving under its own power. The orbit is constantly changing They need to get their story straight.
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:57:38 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Sub-Driver
Uhhh. Notice the original article is from September, 2002.
Also notice the animation of the orbit ENDS in Feb. 2003.
Feb. 1, 2003 was the latest Shuttle disaster.
I'm guessing that's when it invaded NASA headquarters and took over.
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posted on
12/22/2004 4:58:35 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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