Planet Earth involved in "near miss"

[hews500d]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_us/asteroid_close_call


Scary.

Darrell

[GT182]

Holy crap Marie. I thought they were supposed to be able to spot them way out there before they got that close. Somebody was sleepin on the job.

[hews500d]

Something that "small" though I don't know if they could spot it... I guess the good news would be if it were to have hit it wouldn't have been a global killer...:icon_eek:

Darrell

[Rami]

Quoting George Carlin: "It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss!"

[Snuffy]

Thought I felt a breeze the other morning ... :caked:

[Odie]

Someone let Bruce Willis know he's on deck !! :mixedsmi:

[strega13]

Holy crap Marie. I thought they were supposed to be able to spot them way out there before they got that close. Somebody was sleepin on the job.
they are not able to spot the great majority of asteroids out there . i think it is estimated that they can only , so far , spot less than 20% of the ones that get really close , and even most of these are discovered after their passage near earth .

[demorier]

Probably not to much to worry about...was probably only traveling about a million mph.

And as pointed out by Odie we could always call Bruce Willis to save the planet again.

[crashaz]

Yeah someone let Bruce know he is the guy again.
Want to make sure there is no confusion about taking turns and leaving Ben Affleck to do the job.

:costumes:

[Kofschip]

Better get Bruce Willis lined up now, it is coming back in about 1 1/2 year. :help::help: