Following found on the spaceweather.com site: On February 22nd, a small asteroid named 2006 DQ14 flew past Earth at a distance of 1.2 million miles. But was it really an asteroid? 2006 DQ14 follows an orbit around the sun strikingly similar to Earth's. This raises the possibility that the "asteroid" is actually space junk originally from our own planet. 2006 DQ14 was last near Earth in Sept. 1977, about the same time that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched atop a Titan III Centaur. best wishes Russell -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 24/02/2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Feb 26 2006 - 09:11:57 EST