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Re:A working observatory which tracks "near-Earth objects" by scraplab on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:54AM (#23674772)
I made a silly Twitter bot, @lowflyingrocks, that announces close passes of NEOs.

https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks

It tweets everything within 0.2AU at the moment of minimum distance. Not that close, but enough to keep it regular.

Every now and again there’s a good one!

https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks/status/962090981796536320

It’s written in Elixir, code over here:

https://github.com/tomtaylor/lowflyingrocks

Re:A working observatory which tracks "near-Earth objects" by kyberias on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:34AM (#23675617)
Would be nice if it also rendered an animated GIF showing how close it went.
Re:A working observatory which tracks "near-Earth objects" by nissarup on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:38AM (#23675636)
I can't imagine how large a .2AU GIF would be.