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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: Asteroid/Earth Close Encounter
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Date: 26 Apr 89 17:28:10 GMT
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In article <101062@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> mae@vygr.Sun.COM (Mike Ekberg, Sun {GPD-LEGO}) writes:
>I heard a TV news teaser two days ago that mentioned
>something about an asteroid coming close to the
>earth recently. 

I heard that at its closest, its distance was twice that of the moon.
That's actually pretty close on a cosmic scale.  They also didn't see it
approaching---I think they didn't spot it until it was at its closest
distance (or maybe after).

So what's this doing in sci.space.SHUTTLE, anyway?

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>