The “Other” Flyby

By Tom

While we wait for images of the Messenger flyby of Mercury, and by the way, the observation period was to end today at noon and then the transmission of the images can begin. I had to laugh with the line from the press release …


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Earth "grazer" 2008AF3

By RickJ

Image scale is 1.5" per pixel. This guy was moving nearly .6 seconds of arc per second of time. North is up, west to the right in this image. It was in the middle of Bootes when taken. It will be in Serpens Caput by the time it rises …


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