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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. it's called Delta Vee by way2trivial · · Score: 0, Redundant
    and, strangely, with massive astral objects, one EXTREMELY WELL COMPUTED bit of force
    (knock it with a feather) actually could make it happen.

    if you wait till it's next to the earth to park it, yea, a really INTENSIVE amount of energy is required.

    but, if you do the math perfectly, you can get it to park itself with a really light tap..

    (fuckup the math, and it does crash on the planet)

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