Phew! Asteroid's passing was a cosmic near-miss 3/4/2009 6:48:00 AM

Don Quixote

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i wonder whatever happened to the near earth surveillance project, funding maybe...:eek:




Associated Press/AP Online
PASADENA, Calif. - An asteroid about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed by Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that the asteroid zoomed past Monday morning.
The asteroid named 2009 DD45 was about 48,800 miles from Earth. That is just twice the height of some telecommunications satellites and about a fifth of the distance to the Moon.
The space ball measured between 69 feet and 154 feet in diameter. The Planetary Society said that made it the same size as an asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 and leveled more than 800 square miles of forest.
Most people probably didn't notice the cosmic close call. The asteroid was only spotted two days ago and at its closest point passed over the Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
 
Excellent. I'm glad they missed those bastiges from Planet "X".

I'll wager Planet "X"'s military top-brass are now having second thoughts about investing their hard-earned intergalactic tax dollars in the universe's largest catapult.
 
In the gods game of marbles we may not be worth risking their cats eye so they just flicked a pebble at us.
 
I'll wager Planet "X"'s military top-brass are now having second thoughts about investing their hard-earned intergalactic tax dollars in the universe's largest catapult.
Maybe that was just a warning shot. Hopefully their citizenry have went and rioted destroying the Universe's largest rubber band and thus rendering the catapult inoperable.
 
Maybe that was just a warning shot. Hopefully their citizenry have went and rioted destroying the Universe's largest rubber band and thus rendering the catapult inoperable.


breaking news-----rock passing near earth originated from mars polar region

martians are protesting earth sending items dropping on mars

mars news----enough is enough, we are fighting back!:readit::pke::eek:
 
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