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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Aug 3, 2015, 12:52 PM Aug 2015

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NASA Pings a Passing Space Peanut

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NASA Pings a Passing Space Peanut

On July 25, 2015, the near-Earth asteroid 1999 JD6 -- a peanut-shaped world -- made its closest pass of Earth in over a century.

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NASA Pings a Passing Space Peanut (Original Post) Panich52 Aug 2015 OP

Ha! Missed! Xipe Totec Aug 2015 #1

I am glad the "Space Peanut" kept going right on by ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2015 #2

Xipe Totec

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1. Ha! Missed!

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Mon Aug 3, 2015, 01:01 PM

Aug 2015

1StrongBlackMan

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2. I am glad the "Space Peanut" kept going right on by ...

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Mon Aug 3, 2015, 01:04 PM

Aug 2015

I know ... I've watched too many Sci-Fi flicks; but, bad stuff would have happened if it had stopped or changed direction.

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