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Routine image of asteroid 2007 PP9 gone bad
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post Aug 16 2007, 12:46 PM
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This is a single, unprocessed frame (CCD) from the morning of August 16, showing no less than 13 individual components of some type of catastrophic event recorded when a routine image of the new asteroid 2007 PP9 was being captured...


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post Aug 16 2007, 08:02 PM
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Hum,
yeah, perhaps its a re-entering delta 2 rocket...


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i just ran a sim and can rule out a delta 2 rocket body that was due to crash, (the timing and location don't match).
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- blobrana   Routine image of asteroid 2007 PP9 gone bad   Aug 16 2007, 12:46 PM
- - jamescanvin   The bright stripe looks like a satellite to me, th...   Aug 16 2007, 01:15 PM
- - algorimancer   That certainly looks interesting, but as it is onl...   Aug 16 2007, 01:16 PM
- - djellison   The orig. poster has already made his mind up it s...   Aug 16 2007, 01:16 PM
- - akuo   A passenger jet flying past the field of view of t...   Aug 16 2007, 01:30 PM
- - blobrana   Hum, yeah, perhaps its a re-entering delta 2 ro...   Aug 16 2007, 08:02 PM

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