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Originally posted by VirginiaR:
For those of you who are scientifically minded, and recognized the ".fits" filename extension to the other document on the Nightfall Virus disk, and are familiar with this program, I hope its use here doesn't seem out of place. I stumbled across this during my research and it seemed to fit (no pun intended) with the information Prof. Daitch may have given to Lois, along with the copy of the file supposedly sent to him by his friend in England. If FITS wouldn't have been used in this way (in describing or imagining something in space), please let me know and I shall remove it.
As I was reading, I was pleased and surprised to see you stick a .fits file on the disk. When I was in college, I took images of variable stars in the .fits format, and I used a program to analyze those images to get data to study the stars' light curves. It's completely reasonable that there would be an image of the asteroid in that format along with the data.

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