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Seems like we had a near fender-bender in outer space Monday. A rather substantial chunk of space rock (300 meters) came within 819,000 km (520,000 miles) of Earth, a little less than double the distance from us to the Moon. In space terms, it's like barely missing getting T-rammed at an intersection. Apparently the asteroid would have been big enough to take out a country the size of France or Spain.
Rather scary, to think about...that was a close one! [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: Sazerac ]
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Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams,
In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."
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