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'It snuck up on us': Scientists stunned by 'city-killer' asteroid that just missed Earth.
washingtonpost.com ^
| July 26, 2019
| Allyson Chiu
Posted on 07/26/2019 11:53:44 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
To: ransomnote
A celestial warning shot from The Big Guy?
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posted on
07/26/2019 11:57:48 AM PDT
by
NCMtnMama
(Trying to keep my granddaughter out of a burqa.)
To: ransomnote
This happens more often than not - seeing the asteroid AFTER it has gone past us. (If it comes in from the direction of the sun, it is like losing the baseball in the lights.)
Yeah - 1/5 the distance to the moon - that IS close. I wonder how long it will be if it ever comes this way again? (I have no idea how asteroids orbit.)
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posted on
07/26/2019 11:57:59 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(!)
To: ransomnote
Missed us by that much........
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posted on
07/26/2019 11:59:14 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:02:08 PM PDT
by
oldbill
To: ransomnote
Hey asteroid....
You missed!
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:02:35 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
To: MuttTheHoople
So if there was a Warning then. what? Do we all run to the asteroid shelters?
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:04:08 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(hvxbuc)
To: NCMtnMama
And, like the ozone hole, right over Kennebunkport. Unbelievable.
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:04:32 PM PDT
by
alstewartfan
("The strangest women run wild down there Covered head to toe with Fur and hair." Al Stewart in Hanno)
To: arthurus
So if there was a Warning then. what? Do we all run to the asteroid shelters?
~~~
Get to your gun ship!
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:07:24 PM PDT
by
z3n
To: Hot Tabasco
Maxwell knew in the 60s. He was the Smart one.
To: ransomnote
Most asteroids don’t wire ahead.
To: ransomnote
Alan Duffy was confused. Wonder what he did with the grant money we gave him to look for these things?
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:16:07 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(In!)
To: Fido969
And why did the reporters find out first?
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:23:54 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: George from New England
I see what you did there. Lol
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:25:50 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(Free-Wwg1wga and enjoy the show.)
To: BigEdLB
Bunch of Perverts picking tonight’s young boys ?
To: ransomnote
The Earth is about 7000 miles wide. This asteroid came within 7 diameters of hitting.
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:43:57 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: Nateman
Read long ago a sizable one can go undetected until it slips into the atmosphere. Even if we’d seen this one coming, no time to react.
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:47:07 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
To: Nateman
How far out does the gravitational pull of the earth extend. How close would one of these babies have to be to get sucked in?
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posted on
07/26/2019 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
redangus
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