INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday

EnglishLady · Jun 25, 2011

Discovery News

This may sound like late notice, but astronomers have just spotted a rather chunky asteroid heading our way, set to narrowly miss us on Monday.

In fact, it will be such a narrow miss that astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to spot the flyby with fairly modest telescopes.

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INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday : Discovery News

scottm4211 · Jun 25, 2011

I'll be in my basement

EnglishLady · Jun 25, 2011

ROFL

I don't know if you went to the link, but where it says Discovery News, they have added .... will duck on Monday LOL

Ragman · Jun 25, 2011

See Turtles signiture line for explaination of what would happen if it hit the earth.

EnglishLady · Jun 25, 2011

LOL I forgot about that ....

Well done

Turtle · Jun 26, 2011

Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs.

Well, the tall ones, anyway.