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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Animation of asteroids passing near Earth

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060328.html

*Yipes!  A couple of them doggies appear to get rather close...   

Terrific animation.  Kudos to the folks who put it together.

--Cindy

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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)

flashgordon

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Registered: 2003-01-21

Posts: 314

Re: Animation of asteroids passing near Earth

I'm not sure how accurate some of that was; they say not one asteroid came within the moons orbit, but they show many asteroids hitting the blue earth dot;