Huge asteroid to fly by Earth Thursday,No Danger

[Bioshock]

Size of city block.

An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday, and you may be able to watch it happen live.

The near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there's no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.

2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers' radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47805799/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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Im always surprised that something that large can sneak up on us.

 

[oldmetlfan]

Just 14 lunars the other way, and we would all be in deep doo-doo with one that big.

 

[MacTavish]

The big asteroid couldn't do any more damage than the big A** in DC has done.

 

[oldmetlfan]

The big asteroid couldn't do any more damage than the big A** in DC has done.

The political forum is 7 down from this one. You do have to turn it on though in your settings.

 

[MacTavish]

My mistake.

 

[tywest]

The political forum is 7 down from this one. You do have to turn it on though in your settings.

Zing!

but yeah with all this money spent on this stuff.........it just "sneaks" up haha ludicrous

 

[dial1911]

There seem to have been a lot of these lately... maybe they're just getting press coverage now. Here's to hoping nothing "sneaks up" on us in December

 

[Sagan]

The bugs are getting a little more accurate (see Starship Troopers).

 

[Bioshock]

The bugs are getting a little more accurate (see Starship Troopers).

+1.. Good movie

 

[tywest]

+2 good movie, stepping on bugs at an epic scale