[meteorite-list] Close Shave Asteroids

Mike Hankey mike.hankey at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 18:52:38 EDT 2010


I read two asteroids came pretty close to earth today.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/09/harvard_scienti_1.html

Here's a video of one of them.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/asteroid-animation-2/

in the first frame of the video, there's something to the left of the
asteroid, looks kind of like a plume, and fades out over frames 2 & 3.
Probably just a camera artifact or something, but seems odd.



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