UK Daily Mail
October 5, 2011
A giant asteroid hurtling through our solar system’s asteroid belt boasts a mountain that makes Everest look like an ant hill, it has been claimed.
Detailed scans of the surface show it is as big as the volcanoes of Hawaii – measured from the ocean floor.
Data provided by NASA’s Dawn mission has shown more about the characteristics of the crater-filled monstrosity known as Vesta, the second most massive object in the solar system’s asteroid belt.
Dawn is now circling the asteroid at an altitude of 420 miles, taking visible and infrared pictures to send back to earth. Each orbit takes 12.3 hours.
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The path of our solar system asteroid belt has been seriously altered. The big secret NASA will never tell you.
Keep an eye on the skies for large falling objects. Hopefully on Long Islane, “OUCH”
Matzo Man Reply:
October 5th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Better would be DC.
dhsn Reply:
October 5th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Better would be International Bank of Settlements and the City of London.
Glen Reply:
October 5th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
More STUPIDITY form MORK.
What a LOAD OF CRAP. You are a RETARD.
There’s the world Obama should rule.
How in hell can they see Mt. Everest on an asteroid
steroid, paranoid, hemhoroid, whatever you want to call it ) whenever they can’t even take billions in tax money, and build a functional telescope.
Remember the Hubble telescope, the one that cracked, back in the 80s ? They probably blamed Gus Grissom for that one.
Hubble … even the name sounds stupid.
Isn’t that the stupid evil little prick that did crooked dealings with the Hill Billaries ? The one with the
flapping jowels ?
Any relation between Billary and Sir Edmond Hillary ?
Mr. Thrillkill Reply:
October 5th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Where’s my one way ticket to Verna ?