[refermech]

I didn’t see it so it didn’t happen./S

[MUDDOG]

The Russian anti-meteor rocket works.

[21twelve]

I recall a few years ago somebody discovered a new “near Earth” asteroid that was fairly large. They discovered it AFTER it had passed by near the earth.

[soycd]

It’s the ones that don’t explode on entry that need watched closely.

[JoeProBono]

[Truth29]

A 100 ft wide asteroid could do tremendous damage if it hit over a populated area. The 2013 Russian meteor was considerably smaller and exploded high in the atmosphere and still caused a lot of damage and injuries.

[b4me]

makes me think of pop-rocks in space :)

[roadcat]

Did it change direction several times before exploding? Maybe it was aliens. Or the Russians. The “space rock” could have been a cover story. Maybe...

[montag813]

Buenos Aires was 800 miles away from suffering the real world fate it got hit with in “Starship Troopers”. this is pretty damn terrifying. Reaction of the world? YAWN. Hiroshima from the sky...WHATEVER!

[rktman]

How come that brits always put the ‘asa’ in lower case when they write about NASA? Just wonderin’.

[Hot Tabasco]

Believed, unlikely and probably........OK

[JimSEA]

Here is an an article I thought you might like on "Multiple cosmic impacts 790,000 years ago". Let's be thankful it's in the past.

[RandallFlagg]

Great.
I just finished watching 1953’s “The War Of The Worlds.”

[Patriot Babe]

I wonder if this mean we are doomed are going to be doomed? An Omen?

[Ozark Tom]

March 5 is the next known close approach-—asteroid 2013 TX68.

[Mike Darancette]

“In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.”

But the ones we don’t know about...

[xp38]