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Another Asteroid Passes Close Today - 03 May 2014


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A small asteroid about the size of a city bus zipped by Earth at a range closer than the moon early Saturday (May 3), but posed no threat to our planet.

 

Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth, Comes Closer Than the Moon

 

http://www.space.com/25748-bus-size-asteroid-buzzes-earth-video.html

 

A small asteroid about the size of a city bus zipped by Earth at a range closer than the moon early Saturday (May 3), but posed no threat to our planet.

 

The newly discovered asteroid 2014 HL129 came within 186,000 miles (299,338 kilometers) of Earth when it made its closest approach on Saturday morning, which is close enough to pass between the planet and the orbit of the moon. The average distance between the Earth and moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km).

 

You can watch a video animation of asteroid 2014 HL129's orbit around the sun on Space.com. The asteroid is about 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide, according to NASA's Asteroid Watch project based at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. It made its closest approach to Earth at 4:13 a.m. EDT (0813 GMT).

 

Saturday's close shave by asteroid 2014 HL129 came just days after its discovery on Wednesday, April 28, by astronomers with the Mt. Lemmon Survey team, according to an alert by the Minor Planet Center, an arm of the International Astronomical Union that chronicles asteroid discoveries. The Mt. Lemmon Survey team scans the night sky with a telescope at the Steward Observatory atop Mt. Lemmon in Arizona's Catalina Mountains.

 

NASA scientists and researchers around the world constantly monitor the sky for potentially dangerous asteroids that could pose a risk of impacting the Earth.

 

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In a galaxy far far away, nobody can hear the wheels of the magical school bus, go round, and round........in space.

My opinion, blah blahs of America are just hoping, for an asteroid of mass destruction, so they can declare martial law, run the water, and round up everybody who doesn't look like if they are from Europe. Just like Katrina...What I hate the most, about that, is if most of the allegations, where true, or old churchie women ramblings.

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Thanks so much for your post, ROTS.

 

I now understand this scary situation on a much deeper level.

 

I'm not so worried about an asteroid striking the Earth.

 

What scares me the most is the thought of a giant hemorrhoid striking the Earth.

 

Larry

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