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NASA
31st May 2013, 06:30
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-grail-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=43792)30 May 2013 - NASA'S GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
GRAIL has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft.


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Limor Wolf
31st May 2013, 19:29
It is interesting that this is the last Streo report from NASA, since in about less then two hours time a hugh Asteroid, 2.7 kilometers in size is about to pass close by to earth. No danger of collision. Preper your telescopes



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czeE3OWAwKc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.sott.net/article/262100-Huge-asteroid-passing-us-close-by-on-May-31-2013

Also interesting item above

TargeT
31st May 2013, 19:42
2 miles long & 15 times the distance the moon is from earth....

well the gravitational influence will be minor, I wonder if an electrical influence will present itself, though it's on the wrong side of the sun for anything spectacular to happen.