House-Size Asteroid Gives Earth a Close Shave Today

Yahoo! News ^ | 10/12/12 | Tarik Maliq - Space.com

[NormsRevenge]

An asteroid the size of a house will buzz Earth today (Oct. 12) but poses no risk of hitting our planet, scientists say.

The asteroid 2012 TC4 will pass Earth at a range of just 59,000 miles (95,000 kilometers) —about one-fourth the distance to the moon — when it makes its closest point today, NASA scientists said. The asteroid was discovered by astronomers on Oct. 4 and is about 56 feet (17 meters) across.

"Small asteroid 2012 TC4 will safely pass Earth Oct 12 at just .25 the distance to our moon's orbit," scientists with NASA's Asteroid Watch program wrote in a Twitter update this week. On average, the moon's orbit is about 238,000 miles (383,000 km).

The asteroid is large enough to be seen by backyard astronomers using a small telescope, the night sky events website Spaceweather.com has reported.

[SunkenCiv]

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[CommerceComet]

So while to you I may a threat ( why I don't know cause i say the truth?) actually the threat is Obama and government ( including NASA, the EPA, IRS, BLS , government schools and the thousands of other agencies all under the control of a Marxist tyranicall POS called Obama)

I don't find you or your political agenda to be a threat - it was just that your diatribe was totally out-of-context with the discussion. The discussion was about the asteroid, not the legitimacy of NASA. If you want to talk about that topic, start your own thread rather than try to hijack some other thread.

[BenLurkin]

Dittos to the two favorite comments: thumbs up for epic music :) Looks like Pluto getting revenge for being demoted.