[tsowellfan]

I think I saw it while star gazing. I think it was a '68 dodge

[Jeff Chandler]

made the closest Earth flyby a space rock has ever survived

How could they possibly know that?

[dfwgator]

“Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.”

[Army Air Corps]

Was it the size of a Yugo or a 1958 Buick Roadmaster?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sneaky rock came out of the sun. “Bandit at 12 O’clock High!”

[mrsmith]

I wonder.
Should we destroy meteors of this approximate size?

That would, arguably, make us responsible for the damage caused by it’s remnants. But would we have the defence of showing what would have happened if we didn’t act?

Fascinating...,

[lurk]

It was a 67 Galaxy.

[SuperLuminal]

When I was 8-11, anything that sneakily zoomed in out of the sun was assumed to be a zero...

[IYAS9YAS]

A Mercury Meteor?

[Bernard Marx]

Thankfully it wasn’t a Chevy Nova.

[Bikkuri]

WhatsHisFace that launched his car out to space?

[Justa]

The closest? Not by a long shot. The 1972 meteor fly by went through the atmosphere and back out into space. There’s even a film of it.

https://youtu.be/4WlCfuPrszU

[faucetman]

No time for Bruce Willis and crew to save us!

[oldtech]

That speed works out to 40,480 FPS so you can get an idea how much damage that might do. A very high velocity rifle round might be on the order of 4000 FPS, plus it is a lot lighter than than the object in this article. So, if that asteroid had struck the earth, I think the damage would be horrific.