I follow a lot of the stuff the NASA's JPL publishes and creates about neat, cool, space related science stuff... and this one is a bricks to be shat one here:
It's the asteroid 2012 DA14, 50M in diameter and weighing in at an estimated 180,000 tons (basically a very bad day for anyone near where it hits)... it's going to pass Earth by a mere 17,200 miles. For reference, the moon is 238,900mi away, one 14th the distance, and closer than GeoSync satellites .NASA has stated that the asteroid has no risk of hitting Earth, and on a return trip (laws of gravity) a .002% chance of hitting in 2080 and 2109 (our future relatives are safe from this rock).
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NASA has stated that the asteroid has no risk of hitting Earth, and on a return trip (laws of gravity) a .002% chance of hitting in 2080 and 2109 (our future relatives are safe from this rock).
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