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Post by howie1 on Oct 22, 2016 0:27:53 GMT
If you click on the link below its to the Spaceweather site which has the story and image at the time of this posting. Great shot considering the station is about the size of two buses joined together ... its currently only the size of the two crew capsule and its small thruster joined to another similarly sized tube in space forming the beginnings of the Chinese space station. So very small, and would have been tracking at the usual 27,000'ish km/hr that such stations fly at. Tough job to shoot that on a 14" tracking Dob. Warning, that they tend to refresh the stories after a few days so click now or you may not see it on there. BTW, spaceweather has a great table down near the bottom of the webpage showing dates, sizes, and closest Lunar Distance of near Earth asteroids coming up. There's a 2.2 km diameter lump whizzing by on 19th Nov. Now next time you are driving, find a nice straight stretch of road and measure out on the odometer of the car 2.2km (1.4 miles), then imagine that distance covered in 3 dimensions ... ie a big lump that diameter. Fairly impressive. And considering they reckon the extinction asteroid from 65 million years ago was about 10km ... kinda makes you hope they have figured out the orbit nice and carefully .. as its supposed to only get 62 lunar distances away at its closest. spaceweather.com/
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Post by Dragon Man on Oct 22, 2016 13:42:38 GMT
Thanks Howie, fantastic!!!
Here is the article and accompanying photo so people can see it after the story vanishes from the Spaceweather site:
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