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Alas, something new has been learned. Thanks for the tip. Now to redo my Tunguska fly in.

Sorry about the wait, didn't have my settings right to notify me.

# Author by Tom Philp III Updated: 20091106 # Updated Observation from JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1 # JPL Closest Approach: # Celestia Closest Approach at: # Torino Scale: # http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/ "2009 VA" "Sol" { Class "asteroid" #...

Asteroid 2009 VA fly-by of Earth on Nov. 6th, 2009. Below is a video I created last week to demonstrate the closeness of 2009 VA. Video was made using Celestia 1.6 Orbital parameters are from JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C16lEwN5rGU If you...

So after plotting asteroids and NEOs that pop up at JPL, individually, (yes I have many many individial .ssc files I've created over the years), I decided to start plotting for stars. I noticed a limitation when plotting a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) I read about this morning, GRB 090423, the current reco...