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Old 15-January-2008, 12:13 PM
gentle_dragon gentle_dragon is offline
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SATEROID ... WoW. That must be an asteroid that will become a satelite
MOID = Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance. Until it was .0037 it was considered minimum distance between the two bodies now that it is .0012 it is minimum separation between orbits. Dream on. How about this:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/css_sss_newdisc.html
Catalina Sky Survey gives MOID = .00096
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