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Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:35 pm
by plwk
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In a close shave, an asteroid about half the size of a football field will miss Earth by 27,680 kilometres on February 15, the closest asteroid in recorded history to buzz past our planet, Nasa scientists say. "This is a record setting close approach," said Don Yeomans of Nasa's near earth object programme at jet propulsion laboratory. More here

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:21 pm
by Sokehi
Heard about it in a german documentary recently.

Chances are higher it crashes on the planets surface than winning the lottery in germany. wooo. :jedi:

edit: sorry that's the other huge asteroid... forgot it's name... amophis or something ;)

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:56 pm
by Ben
THe LOLcat army need to try a bit harder if they want to invade Earth.

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:12 pm
by plwk
THe LOLcat army need to try a bit harder if they want to invade Earth.
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Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:25 am
by chownah
Maybe the Mayan calendar was off by a couple of months.....the world ends tomorrow.
chownah

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:53 pm
by lojong1
my spooky beautiful viision says it misses, changes direction really. How it will affect us? don't know

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:31 am
by James the Giant
It's today! You see it with binoculars. Doesn't move very fast though so it won't be spectacular. Just a bright dot, like a star.

Re: Huge asteroid to fly closest ever to Earth

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:04 pm
by lojong1
lojong1 wrote:My spooky beautiful vision says it misses, changes direction really.
It happened just the way I prophesied, I'm awesome!