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- From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Asteroid report
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.045430.11295@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 04:54:30 GMT
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- Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
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- Forrie Aldrich writes:
-
- > Recently, and associate mentioned there was a report of a rather large
- > asteroid (or some object) approaching or within our solar system, and
- > with a trajectory currently in our direction. And that radio signals
- > have been transmitted from said object.
- >
- > This does sound a little out-of-the-ordinary, can someone confirm or
- > deny this? (for those familar with Arthur C. Clark, the above reference
- > makes me have visions of RAMA heading our way... ::wince:: ;)
-
- Probably was referring to the close approach of 4179 Toutatis on December
- 8. The radio signals coming from it will be the radar waves bounced off
- of it by Steve Ostro. It (nor any other asteroid) has transmitted anything
- to Earth all by itself.
-