Near miss
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:32 am
The Earth will have a near miss with a small asteroid on the 27th. http://spaceweather.com/
Greg
Greg
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Re: Near miss
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:15 am
phew! Cool site Greg. Got that one bookmarked now.Re: Near miss
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:30 pm
If you are not already familiar with it, you might be interested in the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" site. It has a different image each day, along with some informative text about the image subject. In addition, at the bottom left-center of the screen there is a link to the "Archive" of previous APOD articles going back to mid-1995.Birma wrote:
The URL for that site is at:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
With best wishes,
- Tom -
Re: Near miss
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:42 pm
Thanks Tom. Good call. I have that one, as they say now, in an app 
Re: Near miss
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:40 am
Close only counts in horseshoes and had grenades. Oh, and atomic weapons.Greg Beetham wrote:The Earth will have a near miss with a small asteroid on the 27th. http://spaceweather.com/
Greg
Dusty
Re: Near miss
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:35 am
Yeah I guess Dusty, a miss is as good as a mile, just think we could have had a nice shiny new one of these (below) somewhere more close and handy. What I don't know yet is what is it's new orbital details. Sometimes after a body has had a close encounter and had it's orbit modified it becomes attracted to the one it had a close encounter with and dangerous.
Greg
Greg
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Re: Near miss
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:40 pm
What, like a stalker?Greg Beetham wrote:Sometimes after a body has had a close encounter and had it's orbit modified it becomes attracted to the one it had a close encounter with and dangerous.
Re: Near miss
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:55 pm
Greg, somewhere I have a whole roll of film I shot at that crater in about '96. I hiked 1/2 way around the rim, taking various shots. I only wish I had had a powerful enough lens to get good close-ups of the Lunar Module set-up that they used for training for moon missions.
Dusty
Dusty
Re: Near miss
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:09 pm
Welcome to the club.Birma wrote:Thanks Tom. Good call. I have that one, as they say now, in an app
I have my browser set to go to the current day's APOD as its home page when starting.
With best wishes,
- Tom -