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Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away - with only 15 hours warning | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
November 11
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April Buchheit, Christopher Chung, imabonehead and 8 other people liked this
"rock was only 23ft across. Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years. Astronomers believe the object, called 2009 VA, would have almost completely burned up while entering Earth's atmosphere, causing a brilliant fireball in the sky but no major damage to the surface...Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away."
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Underground bunkers++. Just sayin.
- Private Sanjeev
OMG, ASTEROID BARELY MISSES EARTH, AND WE DIDN'T SEE IT COMING!!!... well, actually, it was but a pebble, utterly benign and harmless, and kinda, sorta happens all the time. Thanks for reading!
- Phil Essing