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Small Asteroid Making 400,000 Mile Pass By Earth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the summon-bruce-willis dept.

AtariKee writes "Universe Today is reporting that a small 10m asteroid, discovered earlier this month and named 2009 BD, is passing within 400,000 miles of Earth. Although the asteroid poses no threat to the planet, the site reports that the asteroid is still very interesting, as it may be a rare co-orbital asteroid (as in, shares the same orbit as Earth)."

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  1. Let's land on it. by FredFredrickson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one who thinks we should attempt to land on it and stage an emergency scenerio drill, just to prepare for the day when there is an armageddon-destined asteriod?

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    1. Re:Let's land on it. by oldspewey · · Score: 4, Funny

      And soon ... those actors aren't getting any younger you know.

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    2. Re:Let's land on it. by onion2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      How do you propose to land on a 10 meter wide asteroid?

      Very carefully. :)

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    3. Re:Let's land on it. by mea37 · · Score: 5, Funny

      With an asteroid that small, it would be debatable whether the ship landed on it, or the other way around...

      So I guess you'd have to use a soyuz.

      (Get it? Because in soviet russia... Never mind.)

    4. Re:Let's land on it. by dkleinsc · · Score: 3, Funny

      In other words: "We didn't land on the space rock. The space rock landed on us."

      (with apologies to Malcolm X)

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    5. Re:Let's land on it. by Tybalt_Capulet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Easy, I used to land on womp rats back hope with my t-16, and they're no wider than 10m.

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    6. Re:Let's land on it. by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

      Somewhat more likely, apparently, we may send an aircraft to travel near the asteroid

      If you have to wait for an aircraft to do the job, I think it's probably too late.

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    7. Re:Let's land on it. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2, Funny

      Am I the only one who thinks we should attempt to land on it and stage an emergency scenerio drill

      I was thinking that we could land on it, set up tax havens, gambling casinos, brothels and Ponzi schemes.

      Think of it as a bubbling-broth mix of Las Vegas, Wall Street and the Cayman Islands.

      Now a fun place like that would finally put our galaxy on the interstellar map.

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  2. Not again! by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean my Pontiac is going to go on another killing spree?

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  3. Re: someone did by hammarlund · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously we did already because there's a camera shot from the asteroid of Earth.

  4. Re: someone did by dotancohen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently I was not-so-obviously joking.

    I think that the fill-in /. reply here is "WHOOSH".

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