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City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall

Posted by michael on from the horseshoes-and-hand-grenades dept.

FiniteLoop sends a collection of links about a city-sized asteroid named Toutatis which will approach - but miss - Earth this September. MSNBC also has a story, and JPL and the Near Earth Object program have more information.

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  1. Sure. It'll miss. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, they fail to mention that it is of such size as to have sufficient gravity that when it passes, it will rip the oceans from the face of the earth and carry them off into space.

    All you doubters are gonna be mighty thirsty. It's going to be a hot dry 2005!

  2. But miss!?! by LqqkOut · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Will approach - but miss - Earth.

    ACK! "But Miss" sounds like a negative statement. I, for one, wouldn't feel the least bit sad if we're excluded from the city-sized-meteor-strikes-planet team.

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  3. Hmmm by sv25 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of these misses... Geez, the universe sure does have bad aim!

  4. Yup by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dinosaurs are extinct cos they didn't have a space programme.

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  5. Re:City sized? by wronskyMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but if it hits, how many VW Beetles worth of damage will it cause?

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  6. Bottom of the seventh... by MosesJones · · Score: 5, Funny


    And another swing and a miss by the Kuiper belt, the Kuiper belt is batting a .0000001 ERA against small blue planets over the course of this aeon. Of course the last hit that wasn't called foul was a grand-slam homer which cleared the field for a couple of seasons.

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  7. Re:We should be safe... by Fearless+Freep · · Score: 5, Funny

    God does not play dice with the universe... ...He plays billiards