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David Autumns
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Asteroid Passing

Maybe the wrong crunching forum but hey you never know

4 hours 39mins to go

check it out live at http://live.slooh.com/

http://www.sott.net/article/273824-Potentiall...Earth-on-February-17-2014

don't worry it's 8.8 times the distance of the moon away at it's closest but it's tanking along at 27,000 mph
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Re: Asteroid Passing

Reminds me of the film Melancholia! Freaky stuff.
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Re: Asteroid Passing

Thanks for that David - question is, will there be any clear skies in the UK so that we can have a chance at seeing anything...
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Re: Asteroid Passing

http://events.slooh.com/stadium/potentially-h...-islands-february-17-2014

Mount Teide, Tenerife wink


No chance gb009761 under our leadened skies
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David Autumns
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Re: Asteroid Passing

nope its not in the database made by another crunching project
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No chance gb009761 under our leadened skies
aye, I do wonder sometimes as to why I bought that telescope... Perhaps I'll just have to take it with me next time I go to Tenerife biggrin
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Re: Asteroid Passing

Well that turned out to be a damp squib blushing

Tenerife Telescope snowed over. Pictures of Stars from Dubai.

A bit like last years Comet of a Lifetime ISON
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