27 January 2008

Near Miss of Asteroid Hitting Earth Expected

This asteroid, measuring at least 150 meters and as much as 600 meters in length, is expected to narrowly miss Earth by about one-third of a million miles on Tuesday 29 January. A close call in space terms, but there are asteroids in outer space that are going to get closer and, one day soon, a significant one will impact our planet.

I am hoping a monster one annihilates Mercury so as to possibly disrupt planetary orbits around the sun. It would also be interesting to see a good sized one impact the Moon. That would probably result in a massive destructive meteor shower on Earth and a change in gravitational physics on our planet.


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