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Half-Mile Wide Asteroid Found Lurking in the Solar System

07/11/2019 5:01 AM

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/half-mile-wide-asteroid-found-hiding-in-our-solar-system/ar-AAE8xqo?ocid=ientp

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07/11/2019 11:37 AM

..."If you go by the size, 2019 LF6 is about 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) across and is a part of the Atira asteroid group. It is to be noted that the “Atira” asteroid consists 20 space rocks whose orbits fall entirely within Earth's."...

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Re: Half-mile Wide Asteroid Found Lurking in the Solar System

07/11/2019 2:27 PM

Last time, the dinosaurs (birds excepted), next time the mammals?

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Re: Half-mile Wide Asteroid Found Lurking in the Solar System

07/12/2019 4:06 AM

Maybe, though it probably won't be this lump. It's too close to the sun.

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07/12/2019 11:40 PM

"Lurking", eh?

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07/13/2019 6:04 PM

In astronomical terms, in this solar system, not detecting something of this size until now could be considered a design flaw? Bad code? "Lurking" because a fault in what?
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07/15/2019 4:58 AM

https://www.bing.com/search?q=lurking&form=PRDLR1&src=IE11TR&pc=DCTE

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