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David Jenkins

posted on 13/1/10 at 12:53 PM Reply With Quote
Missed!

As it's past 12:47, we can assume that it missed us... or did anyone hear a very loud bang?

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fesycresy

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:05 PM Reply With Quote
They must have spent ages on that drawing





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paul the 6th

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:07 PM Reply With Quote
pffft.... they should prolly upgrade to windows 3.11





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BenB

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:13 PM Reply With Quote
Reminds me of playing Elite on the old Acorn Electron
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David Jenkins

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:52 PM Reply With Quote
There's a table on the associated website that lists all of the asteroids expected in the next year or so.

Most show how close they'll pass in Lunar Units (LUs), i.e. the distance from Earth to the Moon. Most are in the 10s, 20s or 30s - but this one was 0.3LU!






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TimC

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:57 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Reminds me of playing Elite on the old Acorn Electron


Amazing - had Elite II on my first PC - the Epson 8086 'IBM Compatible'!






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Mr Whippy

posted on 13/1/10 at 01:59 PM Reply With Quote
this asteroid near miss is always my favorite, still kept going back into space but you get a real feel for the speed its going.

3m across and 35 miles up going like a bat out of hell

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steve m

posted on 13/1/10 at 02:09 PM Reply With Quote
WAIT

It hassnt missed yet, but due to the wrong type of snow, it is sum what delayed

British Rail, dont know when
Eurostar = ?????? what asteroid
Gatwick airport say they will open at 1730 GMT

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iank

posted on 13/1/10 at 02:31 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
this asteroid near miss is always my favorite, still kept going back into space but you get a real feel for the speed its going.

3m across and 35 miles up going like a bat out of hell

tube linky


14.9 kilometres per second, around 33330 mph fair amount if kinetic energy in that.





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sucksqueezebangblow

posted on 13/1/10 at 02:35 PM Reply With Quote
Well, they say a miss is as good as 76,000 miles.





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