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From: hinojosa@hp-sdd.hp.com (Daniel Hinojosa)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Asteroid/Earth Close Encounter
Keywords: Asteroid near miss Earth tracking
Message-ID: <1945@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 26 Apr 89 15:32:40 GMT
References: <101062@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: hinojosa@hp-sdd.UUCP (Daniel Hinojosa)
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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. Haven't heard anything about it
>since.
 
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,
but it must have been exceptionally large for scientists <sp?> to even
have noticed it. 



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