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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuge asteroid to whip past Earth on Monday
Last edited Fri Jan 23, 2015, 07:09 PM - Edit history (1)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- An asteroid up to 1,800 feet (550 meters) across is headed Earth's way. But don't worry: It will miss us by 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers), about three times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Still, that's close for such a large rock.
NASA scientists say asteroid 2004 BL86 will come closest Monday. That will be the nearest the asteroid gets for another 200 years. And it will be the closest known encounter by such a giant space rock until another mega-asteroid flies by in 2027.
Amateur astronomers across North America should be able to see it with telescopes and binoculars.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150122p2g00m0sp017000c.html
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Huge asteroid to whip past Earth on Monday (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jan 2015
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Cool, welcome to the neighborhood!
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tosh
(4,422 posts)3. Another link...
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)4. hey thanks for that
cool gif!
tosh
(4,422 posts)5. You're welcome!
Thanks to YOU for the alert.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)6. I go to my little folder with
bookmarks for Asian News websites. Sometimes we never get to see some of those stories.. I have no idea what is wrong with our Media.. its like we are all in some kind of news bubble..