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returning interplanetary probe?
For awhile there was speculation this was a returning Apollo-era S4B stage,
but more recent measurements seem to lower the chances of that... Earth's "Other Moon" April 17, 2007 by Roger W. Sinnott http://skytonight.com/news/Earth_Sec...?showAll=y&c=y Last September, when a tiny asteroid drifted into Earth's vicinity, our planet's gravity captured it. The meter-size object, designated 6R10DB9, is now making its third wide swing around Earth. It was quite faint, magnitude 19.3, when discovered September 14th with the 0.68-meter (27-inch) Schmidt telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, and it won't get much brighter than that. ... more |
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returning interplanetary probe?
On Apr 18, 1:42 pm, "Jim Oberg" wrote:
For awhile there was speculation this was a returning Apollo-era S4B stage, but more recent measurements seem to lower the chances of that... Earth's "Other Moon" April 17, 2007 by Roger W. Sinnott http://skytonight.com/news/Earth_Sec...?showAll=y&c=y Last September, when a tiny asteroid drifted into Earth's vicinity, our planet's gravity captured it. The meter-size object, designated 6R10DB9, is now making its third wide swing around Earth. It was quite faint, magnitude 19.3, when discovered September 14th with the 0.68-meter (27-inch) Schmidt telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, and it won't get much brighter than that. ... more Hmmm, whats the delta V to get to it? |
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