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Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-froo dept.

Billosaur writes "A potentially disastrous 40-year-old mystery has been solved: Where is asteroid 6344 P-L? Back in 1960, asteroid 6344 P-L was identified and classified as a 'Potentially Hazardous Asteroid,' meaning that its orbit brings it perilously close to Earth's orbit (on the cosmic scale). Unfortunately, it then disappeared, or more precisely, was lost from view. Flash forward to 2007 and scientists believe that 6344 P-L has been rediscovered as 2007 RR9. Further, they are not sure it is an actual asteroid, but actually a comet fragment, which won't hit the Earth anytime soon but bears watching."

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  1. Direct The Asteroid: +1, Helpful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to this Terrorist.

    Patriotically,
    K Trout

    1. Re:Direct The Asteroid: +1, Helpful by morgan_greywolf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Who needs asteroids? We have sharks!!! With friggin' lasers!!!

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  2. I'm getting worried by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First the Cubs and Red Sox in the playoffs, and now this.

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  3. Tags by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can someone please do something about this tagging? They're being used to mark things with opinions not with a better way to search for things. For example the current tags are.

    linuxbites, linuxisinsecure, linuxsucks

    How is that related to this article at all?

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