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Asteroid 2017 BS32 will zoom past Earth TONIGHT in fourth close shave of the year
thesun.co.uk ^ | 2nd February 2017, 9:58 am | MARGI MURPHY

Posted on 02/02/2017 8:30:40 AM PST by BenLurkin

2017 BS32 is expected to hurtle past at around 8.30pm Thursday.

The space rock – estimated to be around 82ft in size ...

It was only spotted on Monday by astronomers and is the fourth Near-Earth Asteroid to pass this year...

But fear not, these close encounters are more common than you might think and researchers at Nasa are keeping tabs on any strays at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 100000miles; 161; 280km; asteroid; nibiru
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To: PIF

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You are living under a cabbage.

The oceans totally dictate our weather.

Neither geology nor chemistry have anything to do with it.

The peer of a foolish liar is another foolish liar. That is the axis of “peer review.”

Troll on!
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41 posted on 02/02/2017 2:19:12 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Verginius Rufus
161,280 kilometers? It looks like someone took “100,000 miles” and converted it to metric.

100,000 miles is exactly 160,934.4 kilometers.

42 posted on 02/02/2017 2:34:25 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
OK, off by 214.71488 miles.

Close enough for government work.

43 posted on 02/02/2017 4:37:43 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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