Yale Students Capture Asteroid On Film

netringer writes: "Two Yale University students used the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights before it made a close flyby of Earth. The still images were made into a cool digital movie that shows the asteroid streaking across the sky over a period of two hours. According to an AP story the students were supposed to looking at some binary stars when they decided to look a the asteroid instead."

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Re:Grade Inflation My Ass

[Vengie]

Ah, the sweet smell of envy... It's not our fault that you only have money to study at a state university with all the other slugheads who're only a one step up from the white trailerpark trash.

Shut up, you loser.
Yale does NOT have grade inflation (you're thinking of Harvard's president summer's concern about it, where it doesnt really exist. You take a school full of overachievers and sometimes you just have to give them A's).

Furthermore, no actual ivy league student would be this fucking classless.

get a life.