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Friday the 13th of May, was picture Day, Thanks to Donna Wisher for all of the pictures below.
Donna also took many pictures for us in Peoria. April 8th, 2005 and April 15th, 2005
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May 13, 2005: Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day,
the sort of day you trip on your shoe laces or lose your wallet or get
bad news.
But maybe it's not so bad. Consider this: On April 13th--Friday the 13th--2029, millions of people are going to go outside, look up and marvel at their good luck. A point of light will be gliding across the sky, faster than many satellites, brighter than most stars. What's so lucky about that? It's asteroid 2004 MN4 ... not hitting Earth. For a while astronomers thought it might. On Christmas Eve 2004, Paul Chodas, Steve Chesley and Don Yeomans at NASA's Near Earth Object Program office calculated a 1-in-60 chance that 2004 MN4 would collide with Earth. Impact date: April 13, 2029. Right: The orbits of Earth and asteroid 2004 MN4. [More] The asteroid is about 320 meters wide. "That's big enough to punch through Earth's atmosphere," devastating a region the size of, say, Texas, if it hit land, or causing widespread tsunamis if it hit ocean, says Chodas. So much for holiday cheer. Asteroid 2004 MN4 had been discovered in June 2004, lost, then discovered again six months later. With such sparse tracking data it was difficult to say, precisely, where the asteroid would go. A collision with Earth was theoretically possible. "We weren't too worried," Chodas says, "but the odds were disturbing."
Killer Asteroid! headlines generally appear between steps 3 and 4, but that's another story.
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Beak
and Duffers,
Thank
you for inviting me and my family to play. We had a great time
and it was my extreme pleasure to take pictures. It's too bad it
wasn't a little earlier in the night, otherwise I would have been
happy to print out the photos. Maybe next time, eh?
Garrett
and Ian have really enjoyed being around you guys and you are a great
group.
I
hope there are good pictures of each of you.
Thanks
again for the privilege of knowing you all. Keep me in mind for
the next official Duffer's photo night.
Blessings,
Donna
Wisher
PS
- Beak, will you please forward this to the rest? Thanks.
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