Close One!

[Arol]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/ ... index.html

[Unix]

Yeah, but what can ya do right? So if it happens that we're all going to die, I'd just enjoy my last few months on earth. No bills, no work, just relax. I'd just spend all my retirement money

[Mobius]

Umm Unix, there's a big fat ZERO chance. This is a million miles from Earth, and the trajectory is mapped for hundreds of years to within it's own diameter.

[Krom]

I thought I heard somewhere that this one isnt even a rock, but a big clump of dust. Might have been a different one.

[Top Gun]

At least from the radar scans, this one looks pretty solid.

[Duper]

There was one a little smaller ( a mile long i think) that passed between the moon and earth about a year ago and wasn't found until AFTER it had passed. LOL

It may have been more than a year ago, I don't exactly remember.

[Mobius]

That one was outside the Moon's orbit Duper. Pretty sure about that.

[Unix]

Umm Unix, there's a big fat ZERO chance. This is a million miles from Earth, and the trajectory is mapped for hundreds of years to within it's own diameter.

Umm Mobius, I speaking hypothetically.

[roid]

groovy, i just opened up celestia and there it was. it's pretty close, but i think we've been tracking it for a while, we know it's no danger. as of right now it's 4X the distance of the moon away.

E = earth M = Moon-orbit T = Toutatis

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too bad i didn't know about this earlier. as of now the sun isn't shining on it very well, so it'll be hard to see. unlike yesterday when the sun was supposedly shining on it quite well .

oh and Duper's right about the one that actually came inbetween Earth and the Moon, it happened in 2002, the meteor was named "2002 MN". that was definitely a close one, it came within 1/3 of the distance to the moon.

c'mon mobi , fire up celestia and check it all out. (2002 MN is in there as well by default iirc)

[Duper]

AH! Thanks Roid!