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120,000 km Is Still Too Close

Posted by timothy on from the ha-ha-missed-again dept.

texchanchan writes: "BBC report: '...on 14 June, an asteroid (maybe as big as 120 meters in diameter)... made one of the closest-ever recorded approaches to the Earth. ..' but was only discovered three days later. This is well within the moon's orbit. 'If 2002MN had hit the Earth, it would have caused local devastation similar to that which occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908...'"

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  1. Re:U.S. Govt by ceejayoz · · Score: 1, Troll

    hahahahaha you want hahahaha France haha to do something hahahahahahaha

    France's solution to unemployment is to make it so you can't work more than 35 hours a week... lets not involve them in anything important, 'k?

  2. WAY too close by LittleGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    For the metrically-challenged:

    Catalogued as 2002MN, the asteroid was travelling at over 10 kilometres a second (23,000 miles per hour) when it passed Earth at a distance of around 120,000 km (75,000 miles).

    Anything within Lunar Orbit is too damn close, IMHO.

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