At 00:40 27/02/06, Russell Eberst wrote: >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. I cant see how that's possible. The original heliocentric orbit of voyager1 was quite eccentric, with a perihelion of 1.007 AU and aphelion around 8.95AU. The Centaur rocket would have had a similar trajectory. Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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