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  2. From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Earth-approaching asteroid
  5. Message-ID: <C0BypI.9L2.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Jan 93 12:58:12 GMT
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  10. Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards
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  17. CNN Headline News showed a radar image of the asteroid that flew by the
  18. Earth on December 8. The commentator said that the image had 100 times better
  19. resolution than any previously taken of an Earth-approaching asteroid (it's
  20. still not as good as the Galileo images of Gaspra).
  21.  
  22. The asteroid appears to be very rough, and is composed of two large chunks
  23. (possibly held together by gravity).
  24.  
  25. John Roberts
  26. roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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