Near miss

[Greg Beetham]

The Earth will have a near miss with a small asteroid on the 27th. http://spaceweather.com/
Greg

[Birma]

phew! Cool site Greg. Got that one bookmarked now.

[UrsaMajor]

phew! Cool site Greg. Got that one bookmarked now.

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.

The URL for that site is at:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

With best wishes,
- Tom -

[Birma]

Thanks Tom. Good call. I have that one, as they say now, in an app

[Dusty]

The Earth will have a near miss with a small asteroid on the 27th. http://spaceweather.com/
Greg

Close only counts in horseshoes and had grenades. Oh, and atomic weapons.

Dusty

[Greg Beetham]

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

Arizona-crater.jpg (80.48 KiB) Viewed 2870 times

[KevinBarrett]

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.

What, like a stalker?

[Dusty]

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

[UrsaMajor]

Thanks Tom. Good call. I have that one, as they say now, in an app

Welcome to the club.

I have my browser set to go to the current day's APOD as its home page when starting.

With best wishes,
- Tom -