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Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-a-lot-bruce-willis dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Discovered a day before its closest approach to Earth, Asteroid 2013 LR6 came within roughly 65,000 miles of the planet as it flew over the Southern Ocean of Tasmania, Australia at 12:42 a.m. EDT on June 8. Despite being more than half the size of the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the 30-foot-wide asteroid posed no threat, according to NASA."

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  1. Finally a use for the ISS by PsyMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we not fit a large laser to the ISS and have someone fly it around up there blasting it in to smaller manageable chunks (they would only need 2 rotation buttons, a thruster and a fire button). I am sure Atari patented this technology back in the 70's.

  2. Re:Chicken Little Lives by You're+All+Wrong · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.

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  3. Re:Chicken Little Lives by PsyMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.

    Some of the more mature slashdotters do though *cough* COBOL

  4. Lucky! by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Much further and we would have been dealing with an integer overflow.

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