433 Eros
Asteroid Facts
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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12 March 2014
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I frequently compile a list of books and other media that either pique my interest
or that I’ve already owned and enjoyed. Then I run that list through a kind of
sibylline algorithm that analyzes various criteria and extracts the 50% or so
that (it thinks) should be the most intriguing to other people besides
just me.
The ones you see here pop up randomly from these finalists. You
can click that refresh icon at the lower left to see a different set.
Individual sections on this site draw from other, differently specialized
assortments.
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- 7. Cool places by satellite (5 Parts)
- 8. Online temperature conversion for 70 different scales
- 9. Stanton Friedman’s site (WEB CLIENT)
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- 10. Lee Speigel’s site (WEB CLIENT)
- 11. World’s rarest things, Part 1 (uranium, shilajit, Manni olive oil, heavy water, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, Château Pétrus, weird currency)
- 12. World’s rarest things, Part 2 (rose alba, agarwood, buckminsterfullerene, buckypaper, Tyrian purple, red mercury, silphium, Semper Augustus, byssus, vicuña, Escorial wool)
- 13. World’s rarest metals (Or, what’s $1 billion per troy ounce?)
- Real-life shortwave espionage: The mysterious Lincolnshire Poacher “numbers” station [mp3 2.2M]
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