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  • WE ALMOST DIED – ASTEROIDS WAVE HELLO

    09 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone in Uncool, World

    It mightn’t look it, but what you see above is a graphic representation of narrowly-dodged doom.

    This, from the Telegraph:

    Thw two objects were only identified at the weekend by the Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, during a routine sky scan.

    The first asteroid, christened 2010 RX30, was about 65 feet (20 metres) in diameter and flew past at a distance of 154,000 miles early at 09:51am on Wednesday.

    The second, called 2010 RF12, was roughly two-thirds the size of its big brother and estimated to pass within just 49,088 miles of Earth hours later.

    “I think this is Mother Nature’s way of firing a shot over the bow and warning Earth-based astronomers that we have a lot of work to do.” Dr Yeomans added.

    Hmmm. It would have been very inconvenient had those asteroids collided with Earth yesterday. For a start, the Blog Awards would have taken a hit on the scheduling front.

    But then again, I suppose rates of hand-wringing over a number of this year’s contestants would drop significantly.

    [Source : Daily Telegraph]

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