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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. maybe your mommas gaping cunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It's almost a drive in!!!


    Thanks

  2. Re:U.S. Govt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bite me!

    You other lazy-ass no-account good for nothing slacker countries can get off you asses and contribute something for a change! FUCK! Maybe you should go begging to one of the many African kleptocrats who looted their countries of ~124 BILLION dollars (much of which Uncle Sucker gave them in the first place...) to do something about this.

    You whine about 'Merkins be so damn U.S.-centric, but every time there's some pissant piddling problem in some backward-ass corner of the globe, you useless shits start whining that we should "do something" while you wring your hands.

    This is just as much Argentina's problem as much as it is a U.S. problem. Now quit bothering us while we're raping the planet -- go out and get a real job for yourselves.

  3. 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?

  4. NO! It was discovered a 8 days earlier! MOD UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    CLIT and KLERCK, who were working for the NSA and NASA respectively, told me about it via email.

    It wasn't announced to the general public for fear of causing instability in the Middle East.

  5. 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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