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:But how?

[jx100]

I have really gentle hands

if their professor is anything like mine

[yuri82]

i bet their professor gave them an F...

Damn, it's Quicktime

[phr2]

Is there such thing as a Quicktime viewer with source code, that runs under Linux? I have mplayer installed but it only knows about mpeg and avi. Yeah, I know there's a closed-source viewer available from Apple, but I won't run stuff without source.

Good lord, people

[p3d0]

I have never seen so many unfunny posts modded "Funny" in one place. Please mods, set yourself some standards for humour!