On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:44:27 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Here is a video showing asteroid discovery and their ongoing location. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw > Thanks! And: https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
>On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >> Lizette Koehler wrote: >> >>>Rest easy. The Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation >>>Service in Paris says that there will be NO leap second in December 2015. >> >> Oh no! Cruel of them shortening my holiday with 1 sec. ;-) >> >> >>>Of course, if we get hit by large asteroid with sufficient momentum to speed >>>up or slow down our rate of rotation, then they could change their minds. >>>(If that happens, I'll let you know their decision, of course.) >> >> Not one, but about 1000 of them of different sizes are discovered yearly by >> NASA. >> >> NASA is having fun trying to track all those NEOs... (Near Earth Objects) >> >> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/neo_flash.cfm >> http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/neo20130624.html#.VZvfky6ChzU >> -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
