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Asteroid Almost Crashes Into Earth Today
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Date Posted:
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Asteroid Almost Crashes Into Earth Today
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16756450
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posted: At its closest, the space rock - named 2012 BX34 - passed within about 60,000km of Earth - less than a fifth of the distance to the Moon.
Only noticed on Wednesday 
Although I'm ignorantly impressed that they noticed something 36 feet in diameter that far away.
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Coriolus
Title: Outpost Ice Mexican
Posts: 905
Registered: 2002-5-17 06:20:48
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That would of caused some havoc..
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Damnit, that could have taken out D.C. 
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Sgian_Dubh
Posts: 446
Registered: 2003-4-7 10:19:52
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Aerlinthian posted:
I advocate the death of tens of thousands of people in a specific city simply because I disagree with the politics of a few of those people.
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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts: 894
Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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Coriolus posted:
That would of caused some havoc..
Not really, it's too small. It'd make it through the atmosphere but would be extremely likely to break up before impact.
Here, have fun:
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/
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__Bonk__
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Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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Wouldve ruined my day!
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Afio
Title: Belle of the Bull
Posts: 748
Registered: 2002-3-19 16:18:03
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What, they didn't call Bruce Willis?
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Friarspam
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Registered: 2007-1-23 07:01:27
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Afio posted:
What, they didn't call Bruce Willis?
I'm sure it was stopped by Obama.
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Rhint
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Registered: 2002-9-17 20:38:54
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Clackdor
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Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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At 1km from impact:
Sound Intensity: 18 dB (Barely Audible)
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