Asteroid comes within 9500 miles of Earth last week!! 15 hours warning..

wish no one mentioned about 2012. now it is all possible. :Ohno:
 
PowerON said:
I doubt, it won't happen in thousand (make it million instead. heh) years. We won't live to see it happen. :) enjoy while we can.
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Who knows. :) But, during the last few years we had a few "near misses" surprises. So, if an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, we won't know until it is too late anyway.
 
From NASA:

Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012?
A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
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NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?
 
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