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Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-time-to-duck-and-cover-just-yet dept.

jc42 writes "Astronomers have been looking at the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24, the 250-meter asteroid that will pass 540,000 km from the Earth at 8:33 UTC (3:30 EST) Tuesday morning. So get your telescopes out; it's a 10th-magnitude object. Or just hold your breath as the time approaches. It might be sobering to consider that it was just discovered last October, and we know about maybe half of the objects like this in Earth-crossing orbits."

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  1. Yay? by Sylos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reminds me of this one flash video with some dead kangaroo's

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    'Number-memorizing Chinese people.'-Anon
    1. Re:Yay? by msheekhah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end You mean this one? Those Chinese suns a bitches are going down. F(iretru)cking Kangaroos....

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      Mark Anthony Collins
  2. Re:One MILLION Dollars! by gardyloo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was all set to make a point about how the hippies were right about just about everything - drugs are interesting, war is bad, love is good, we all need to lighten up a little or at least make getting blowjobs our top priority.

    But I'm way to high right now to even consider it. I love you, man!