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Asteroid Fly-By on August 18

Posted by michael on from the don't-drink-the-koolaid dept.

ke4roh writes "An asteroid will fly near the planet and be visible with binoculars from the northern hemisphere August 18, so says this article. Astronomers say it will cross the sky at 8 degrees per hour and fade out of view as it approaches the sun and hence goes through its various phases - full, gibbous, half... down to nothing. Such a show only comes about twice a century, so take a look before it disappears!" Another reader sends in a few useful links: "Here's the complete article from the folks at NASA Space Science with extra links including details on the astreroid's trajectory."

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  1. Re:For everything else.... by drsquare · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    A large pair of pliars: £50.
    An electric cattle prod: £200.
    A blow-torch: £300.
    Some nipple-sized pastry cutters: £5.

    Torturing someone to death for rehashing another one of those tired Mastercard jokes: priceless.

  2. Al Gore was right! by rholland356 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If we'd only just listen to Al Gore, we'd have an HDTV camera pointed at us out there beyond the moon, and we could sit in our livingrooms and watch all these space rocks whiz past in glorious living color.

    But no, we gotta elect a guy who, well, who can say *what* is going through his mind other than the perpetual thought, "I gotta screw things up fast 'cuz 2004 is around the corner."