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Stickmaker ([personal profile] stickmaker) wrote2017-12-23 10:15 am

Not the Galactica

Turns out that our visitor from the stars wasn't long and thin, but roughly egg-shaped, with a large dark splotch:

http://spaceref.com/asteroids/arecibo-radar-studies-asteroid-phaethon.html
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[personal profile] kengr 2017-12-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Wrong asteroid. That article is about a near-earth asteroid discovered in 1983, not the interstellar one with the Hawaian name.