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| NASA: Recently Spotted Asteroid No Risk for Earth |
| 2014-12-12 |
| [AnNahar] NASA says a newly spotted 1,300-foot (400-meter) wide asteroid is not a threat to hit Earth, despite recent media reports. NASA's Near Earth Object program manager Donald Yeomans said the asteroid, discovered in October by Russian scientists, won't even get that close to Earth in the next 150 years. And it isn't a threat to any other planet, either. Calculations by NASA and Harvard say the closest asteroid 2014 UR116, will get to Earth is about 2.7 million miles in April 2047. Yeomans said that is so far away that it doesn't make NASA's running list of risky near-Earth objects. Yeomans said in-depth analysis confirmed that that the space rock would not near Earth soon. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 "Won't even get close to Earth in the next 150 years" ... As a Madonna fan, to paraph the great ELMER FUDD > "WELL NOW, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-12-12 20:24 |
| #6 Promptly names it #3205685 most holy site in Islam |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-12-12 15:53 |
| #5 Same guys that said the cold weather would have no affect on the shuttle booster rocket O Rings...... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-12-12 14:24 |
| #4 An awesome impact calculator from Purdue University. http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth It rocks. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-12 10:28 |
| #3 disappointed AGAIN! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-12-12 10:07 |
| #2 That is a relief. One can carry on with the rest of his day, buying green bananas and such. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-12-12 08:15 |
| #1 Yet. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-12-12 00:27 |