Re: Asteroid 4179 Toutatis to Pass Closely By Earth on September 29

From: Algomeysa2 (Algomeysa2NOSPAM_at_mindspring.comNOPESPAM)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:24:44 GMT

"Ron" <baalke@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:d5786437.0409270908.3b756b61@posting.google.com...
> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news144.html
>
> Asteroid (4179) Toutatis to Pass Closely By Earth on Wednesday, September
29, 2004.

Apparently it'll only be visible in the Southern Hemisphere then, but in
early October it'll be visible in the Northern Hemisphere...(with
telescopes...or maybe a really good pair of binoculars)

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