Just another lucky miss
1-27-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/bus-size-aste...BzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3
Bus-Size Asteroid to Give Earth Close Shave Friday
A small asteroid will make an extremely close pass by Earth Friday (Jan. 27), coming much nearer than the moon, but the space rock poses no danger of impacting our planet, NASA scientists say.
The newfound asteroid 2012 BX34, which is about the size of a city bus, will pass within 36,750 miles (59,044 kilometers) of Earth at about 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) Friday, astronomers with NASA's Asteroid Watch program announced via Twitter.
Throughout history, asteroids big enough to cause major damage and disruption to the global economy and society (were they to strike a populated area today) have hit Earth, on average, every 200 or 300 years, according to former astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
Schweickart chairs the B612 Foundation, a group dedicated to predicting and preventing cataclysmic asteroid impacts on Earth. The group's chief message is that humanity's survival will someday depend on our ability to deflect a killer asteroid away from Earth.
The dinosaurs possessed no such technology, of course, and a catastrophic impact wiped them out along with many other plant and animal species 65 million years ago.
1-27-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/bus-size-aste...BzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3
Bus-Size Asteroid to Give Earth Close Shave Friday
A small asteroid will make an extremely close pass by Earth Friday (Jan. 27), coming much nearer than the moon, but the space rock poses no danger of impacting our planet, NASA scientists say.
The newfound asteroid 2012 BX34, which is about the size of a city bus, will pass within 36,750 miles (59,044 kilometers) of Earth at about 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) Friday, astronomers with NASA's Asteroid Watch program announced via Twitter.
Throughout history, asteroids big enough to cause major damage and disruption to the global economy and society (were they to strike a populated area today) have hit Earth, on average, every 200 or 300 years, according to former astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
Schweickart chairs the B612 Foundation, a group dedicated to predicting and preventing cataclysmic asteroid impacts on Earth. The group's chief message is that humanity's survival will someday depend on our ability to deflect a killer asteroid away from Earth.
The dinosaurs possessed no such technology, of course, and a catastrophic impact wiped them out along with many other plant and animal species 65 million years ago.
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