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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Humans to Asteroids - Watch Out! - NYTimes.com

Humans to Asteroids - Watch Out! - NYTimes.com: "A FEW weeks ago, an asteroid almost 30 feet across and zipping along at 38,000 miles per hour flew 28,000 miles above Singapore. Why, you might reasonably ask, should non-astronomy buffs care about a near miss from such a tiny rock? Well, I can give you one very good reason: asteroids don’t always miss. If even a relatively little object was to strike a city, millions of people could be wiped out."

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