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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Telescopic Observations _ LINEAR

Posted by: PDP8E Feb 3 2010, 10:19 PM

Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/82074747.html

A very recent discovery of a what appears to be 2 asteroids (in the main belt) that have destroyed each other, leaving a debris tail, bereft of any gases - so its not a comet!



Posted by: Floyd Feb 3 2010, 11:53 PM

Hubble got a great picture of it which is on http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100203.html

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