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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/11/2006 : 02:35:32
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http://astroprofspage.com/archives/264
Just noticed a new NEO (near Earth object) posted on the Spaceweather site for Aug 31. I'm not sure when they posted it, I could have missed it.
Anyway, with a miss distance less than halfway to the Moon, that is darn close. Yet I didn't recall any fanfare so I thought I'd see what was being reported about it. Low and behold it was even worse. No one found it until 8 hours before it came the closest, and the miss distance wasn't calculated until only a couple of hours before the closest pass.
I wonder how excited those discovers might have gotten before completing that calculation?
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