| smeagol |
12-12-2012 03:27 PM |
hermaroid on its way
hemaroid on its way or is it asteroid i always get them mixed up oh well same thing
Just after Christmas, we have the first of several large asteroid
fly-bys... Our first unwanted guest will fly at just 18,000 miles distance from earth - that's closer than the BskyB TV satellites!
International specialists in asteroid and comet research are gathering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, for a special "viewing party" that will climax with asteroid 2012 DA14 zipping between Earth and orbiting communication satellites (within 14,000 miles of Earth).
The asteroid, is bigger than a city block, and it will squeeze by Earth's atmosphere and the geostationary satellites orbiting the planet. It will be the closest fly by in history.Toutatis, at 2.7 miles (4.46 kilometers) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) wide, is one of the largest asteroids that comes anywhere near Earth... Toutatis or Teutates was a Celtic god worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain. Teutates was one of three Celtic gods mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan in the 1st century AD, the other two being Esus ("lord") and Taranis ("thunderer"). According to later commentators, victims sacrificed to Teutates were killed by being plunged headfirst into a vat filled with an unspecified liquid.
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