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Jan 26, 2015, 12:03 PM
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Well, that's the headline on this story. How close? About three times the distance to the moon. Newsbait?
http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1...3Asnc&ssid=snc
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Jan 26, 2015, 12:25 PM
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I wish I could get a good look at it but I'm in the area getting hit by the blizzard.
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Jan 26, 2015, 12:45 PM
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Me too.
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Jan 26, 2015, 01:31 PM
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/ducks down
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Jan 26, 2015, 03:02 PM
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Jan 26, 2015, 03:03 PM
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Jan 26, 2015, 04:25 PM
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Duck, duck, goosed
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:03 PM
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:\ WTF. I would say that's very much a cause for concern.
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:27 PM
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Sometimes astronomers have a different definition for 'close'.
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:28 PM
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Did anybody feel the breeze when it passed?
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:33 PM
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I wasn't being sarcastic, it's just that large distances mean nothing in the enormity of space. Maybe this animated gif sums up just how close it will get
 Looks like a near miss from that perspective 
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Jan 26, 2015, 10:40 PM
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Am I the only one who finds this interesting to read?
I'm so sick and tired of hearing about celebrity shiz and U.S. violence issues that I want to hear the drama that is going on in space. Oh my goddess, does the movie Armageddon come to anyone's mind after reading this? |
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Jan 27, 2015, 12:28 AM
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Jan 27, 2015, 07:42 AM
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I'M ALIVE!!!
 I was expected be gone in my sleep. |
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Jan 27, 2015, 07:47 AM
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The passing asteroid discovered to have its own moon:
JPL | News | Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Today Has Moon
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Jan 31, 2015, 05:05 AM
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Its all relative. Given the unimaginable vastness of our universe that asteroid was pretty close. Any divergence from its course could have smashed us to tiny little bits. I sometimes wonder what happens to all of the junk that we have left in space. What is going to happen when the celestial fairies push that junk back into our own atmosphere?
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