Posted on 03/04/2009 6:54:07 PM PST by Sequoyah101
An asteroid measuring about 30m across has zipped past the Earth, just 60,000km from its surface and inside the moon's orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at canberratimes.com.au ...
Close... but no hit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197381/posts
Oh well it missed! whether it’s a mile or 100,000 miles!!!
This..... is a second one from Monday’s?
Umm, shouldn’t this read “Asteroid miss”?
Did anyone happen to see how big and beautiful the part full moon was around midnight last night?
It (we are on the PNW Coast) was sitting over the Ocean/Bay way low on the horizon like a big ole Harvest Moon.
To quote George Carlin: It’s not a near miss, it’s a near hit. A collision is a near miss....Boom!....Look, they nearly missed.
/mark
It’s not the asteroids that worry me ... it’s the Klingons around Uranus.
Where I am in Florida the moon was within one degree of being perfectly overhead at 8 pm EST.
Almost never does its wobbly path come this far north.
From the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman: “Scientists pick up NEO whizzing past the Earth, so I wouldn’t sweat the Global Warming crap.”
The actual title of the article as posted on your link is “Asteroid nearly rocked our world”.
Here is my niece explaining it all on Fox news.http://www.viddler.com/explore/txcheng/videos/7/
Well, if one of these hits, nobody will have to worry about “Global Warming” anymore.
30 meters is close to 100 ft. How big a hole would it make? How big was the one that hit Arizona? Saw that when I was kid. Very cool.
Too cold out there last night but I do get some nice moonlight through the bedroom window. I would love to put a skylight in there.
Vanity headline, or did it change at the link?
Great headline.
Depending on what it’s made of it might not even reach the surface.
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