A 427-foot-wide asteroid whizzed within 45,000 miles of Earth yesterday.
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While that may sound far away, 45,000 miles is what astronomers consider a close shave: It's less than 20% of the distance between Earth and the moon.
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Although 2019 OK was wider than the
#StatueofLiberty is tall, it's relatively small compared to the 6-mile-wide rock that hit modern-day Mexico and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.@NASA NASA tracks about 90% of those types of big asteroids.pic.twitter.com/VKWKuLUNOd
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Research teams in Brazil and the United States didn't discover that 2019 OK was approaching until less than a week before it passed by.pic.twitter.com/bdoTQZMZ5z
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Having as much advance notice of an impending collision as possible is imperative, because more lead-up time gives scientists a better chance of figuring out how to divert an asteroid from its current path.
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One of those options is to launch an object into space to ram the incoming space rock head-on. Another involves what's called a
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And to give such a notice, researchers at space agencies like
@NASAEarth would have to make asteroid-detection work a bigger priority.Afficher cette discussion
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“Scientists baffled again” is a very common occurrence. Maybe that’s why I give no credence to the alarmist hysterical climate change hoax.
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Where was Bruce Willis and his crew?
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They're the reason it missed us <3
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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