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Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth
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."
"as it flew over the Southern Ocean of Tasmania, Australia"
At 65,000 miles out, its not flying. (its in orbit around the sun)
And the southern ocean does not belong to Tasmania, or even Australia
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.
We almost got rid of Tasmania?
I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.
I don't remember the dinosaurs claiming that.
Some of the more mature slashdotters do though *cough* COBOL
Much further and we would have been dealing with an integer overflow.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
is how we gather statistics from the past to generate probabilities for predicting the future. The More You Know.
Is it my imagination or are there more of these near-Earth rocks coming our way?
Or are they just being reported more? Or is the detection network more effective?
Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.
Not everything that can be measured matters; Not everything that matters can be measured.
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.
So despite being smaller than something that actually hit earth and did no significant damage, it posed no threat? Wow, that is sure surprising! Who writes this shit?