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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
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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.
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