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Article #5834Re: Asteroid/Earth Close Encounter
From: John H. Kim
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 16:38
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 16:38
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In article <1945@hp-sdd.hp.com> hinojosa@hp-sdd.UUCP (Daniel Hinojosa) writes: > >I read an article in the L.A. Times about this event. Seems the asteroid >in question came amazingly close to earth. That is, amazingly close >in the overall scope of the universe. 500 million miles close. The >article described that distance as twice the distance of the moon to >earth. I don't recall the article giving dimensions of the asteroid, 500 000 miles. 500 000 000 miles is more like the closest the earth gets to jupiter, or maybe saturn, I forget. -- John H. Kim | (This space to be filled when I jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU | think of something very clever uunet!muddcs!jarthur!jokim | to use as a disclaimer)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!jokim From: jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Asteroid/Earth Close Encounter Keywords: Asteroid near miss Earth tracking Message-ID: <1109@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 2 May 89 16:38:05 GMT References: <101062@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1945@hp-sdd.hp.com> Reply-To: jokim@jarthur.UUCP (John H. Kim) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 14