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Record-setting asteroid to shave past Earth *THIS month

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UPDATED: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 17:56
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Friday, February 1, 2013 5:31 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


All is well. Remain calm...

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An asteroid about half the size of a football field will zoom past Earth on Feb. 15, closer than the man-made satellites that power GPS, says NASA.

“This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL said in a video released by NASA this week. Yeomans, however, emphasized that the asteroid, designated 2012DA14, won’t hit Earth.

“It will come interestingly close, closer than many man-made satellites,” he said.

2012DA14 will thread the gap between low earth orbit, where the International Space Station and many earth observation satellites are located and the higher belt of geosynchronous satellites, which provide weather data and telecommunications.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/31/record-setting-asteroid-to-s
have-past-earth-next-month/#ixzz2JcNUMW5U





* correction form original headline.


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Friday, February 1, 2013 9:39 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.

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Coed showers!

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Monday, February 4, 2013 9:57 AM

RIONAEIRE

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That's interesting, will people be able to see it? Will it have a fiery tail perhaps? ...

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:12 AM

BYTEMITE


Probably only if it enters the atmosphere, or if anything might volatilize off the surface from solar radiation.

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:19 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.


I fear for Rio...

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:19 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.


I fear for Rio...

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:56 PM

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