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White House: Asteroid 'Poses No Threat' to Earth
[An Nahar] Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles (2.7 kilometers) long poses no threat to planet Earth.And if it did, what'd we do about it? The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 was making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, keeping a safe distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. White House front man Josh Earnest was asked about the asteroid during a briefing. He says scientists have concluded the asteroid "poses no threat to planet Earth." He added, to laughter, "I never really thought I'd be standing up here saying that." The asteroid is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.74 million kilometers) long. The White House was hosting a "We The Geeks" Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... + Hangout Friday, bringing together NASA's deputy administrator and scientists to talk about asteroids. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-01 |
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