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Large asteroid will come TEN times nearer to Earth than the moon today (edited)
Daily Mail ^ | 9/7/2016 | Abigail Beall

Posted on 09/07/2016 9:20:31 AM PDT by RightGeek

Get ready for a close encounter: A large asteroid will come TEN times nearer to Earth than the moon today

Asteroid will come within a distance of 24,800 miles (40,000 km)

The 32ft-long asteroid will pass by Earth today at 18:12 BST (13:12 ET)

A huge 200-foot asteroid is also set to pass us by on 17 September

[Snip] The space rock is predicted to whistle past our planet at 31,000 miles (50,000km) per hour, on September 17.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; kaboom; nibiru
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To: al baby

women, children, and minorities most impacted


61 posted on 09/07/2016 10:22:25 AM PDT by docsintown
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To: RightGeek
Kim Jong-un will push the asteroid away with pure Juche


62 posted on 09/07/2016 10:23:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
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To: sparklite2

Today, 32 ft. September 17th, 200 ft. or just a tad larger than the 2012 Chelyebinsk asteriod.


63 posted on 09/07/2016 10:26:22 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Enterprise

***It’s WAR! ***

How do you say it in Tagalog? (Subtle reference to the last page of STARSHIP TROOPERS,a Heinlein novel.)


64 posted on 09/07/2016 10:27:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: RightGeek

It’s past time for the close encounter and I’m still here


65 posted on 09/07/2016 10:30:32 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: CincyRichieRich

once in the atmosphere it will be coughing and spurting till id hits the surface


66 posted on 09/07/2016 10:37:31 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: RightGeek
will pass by Earth today

on September 17

How can they know how close it will get when they can't even sort out whether it will be the 7th or the 17th?

67 posted on 09/07/2016 10:38:14 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: HiTech RedNeck
*Some people*? Asians, e.g.?


68 posted on 09/07/2016 10:38:53 AM PDT by Daffynition (*If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?*~ Gene Wilder)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
WOW! 53 posts of blather -- and -- finally --someone gets around to noticing that the event is ten (10) days from now -- NOT TODAY!
69 posted on 09/07/2016 10:44:17 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; of the commission of thousands of crBarack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Paradox

32 footer ? Not really. The 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteor was about twice the size (~60 feet) when it hit the upper atmosphere.

Not even CLOSE to a SMOD. . . .


70 posted on 09/07/2016 10:48:53 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: dayglored

unless it hit detroit then folks would have a reason to visit save haveing to drive to arizona


71 posted on 09/07/2016 10:49:13 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: PAR35
There are TWO asteroids.

One today that is 32 feet.

One on the 17th that is 200 feet.

72 posted on 09/07/2016 10:50:27 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: sparklite2

Thats a big twinki


73 posted on 09/07/2016 10:52:26 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: RightGeek

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q975.html


74 posted on 09/07/2016 11:22:34 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: RightGeek

Actually, there were three asteroids mentioned, and it was the third one that got my attention.

“According to a Nasa database another, much larger, asteroid is also set to sweep past us today - one that could cause ‘devastation’ if it hit our planet.

The huge asteroid could be up to a mile long (1.6km). But luckily the giant will pass at a safe distance of 7.3 million miles.

According to Space.com, an asteroid would need to be of larger than 0.6 miles wide (1 km) to have the force to wipe out humanity.”


75 posted on 09/07/2016 11:25:10 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: RightGeek

O Darn I hope I have health insurance by then.


76 posted on 09/07/2016 11:29:44 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: RightGeek
It wouldn't do near the damage to earth as a Hillary Presidency would do. Vote Trump !!
77 posted on 09/07/2016 11:31:47 AM PDT by bestrongbpositive
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To: al baby

78 posted on 09/07/2016 11:36:08 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Enterprise

Certainly. The only good bug, is a dead one.


79 posted on 09/07/2016 11:54:19 AM PDT by wbill
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To: bankwalker

i read that book back in the late 80’s.
Pretty entertaining story.


80 posted on 09/07/2016 2:43:30 PM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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