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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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PS 13 due to pass 0.5 lunar distance from Earth tomorrowOK, Asteroid zips past (in astronomical terms) within a hair's breadth of us, that's scary enough right? You know what's actually scary? We only found out it was coming two days ago.
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AlunD
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
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Location: Wiltshire
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Another near miss.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am
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Location: Peebo
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It's not the near misses you have to worry about.
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ProfessorF
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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Yup, I'd take 1000 near misses everyday over an impact. 
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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So which is it, 203km or a 0.5LD? 203km means it will pass through the atmosphere.
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I think it is 203 700 km I think that some places use the comma instead of a dot and vice versa. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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It's from from Madrid. Much of Europe uses the comma as the decimal point (as in the ‘ 0,5LD’ from the article  ) and they use either a space or a full stop for the digit group separator. A lot of engineers and scientists use the same system when writing documents - depending on use, there can be more contrast, it can be more readable and less likely to suffer from copying errors. _________________Jim
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