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From: dms@fluke.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Something warm heading this way?
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 11:44:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 11:44:12 1986
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I recently heard a probably much-mangled rumor to the effect that a
satellite (IRAS, I'm guessing) has discovered an object object of
unknown type heading towards us which is visible only in the infrared
and is at fairly close range.  Now, I know this isn't much to go on, and
it sounds like whatever truth is at the source of this was passed through
the Enquirer on the way to my friend's brain, but I am definitely
curious what they were really talking about.  The story must be a couple
years old if the source of the observation was IRAS.  I wish I knew what
fairly close range was (interplanetary?), but I can only speculate. 

Does anyone have any idea what I'm referring to?  Can you fill me in?
Speculation welcome.

Thanks.

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