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#1 2005-07-30 05:35:42

Palomar
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Re: Asteroid 1992 UY4 Flyby

*This information is being hosted at spaceweather.com.  There's also an accompanying image which cannot be "lifted" to copy/paste here.  It's an animation which doesn't seem to be working at the site, unfortunately.  Go to http://www.spaceweather.com]spaceweather.com for today's date (it is archived daily, although sometimes a certain story will remain at the homepage for 2 or 3 days).

No threat posed to us.  This asteroid will be aprox 15 times further away from us than Luna.

It's roughly 1 km in width and has a magnitude of about 12 (not visible to unaided eye).

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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