Rejoice , because you are live : An asteroid bring up 2009 TM8 just go along only 216,000 miles from Earth , belt along at 18,163 mph . That ’s close than the lunar month . But do n’t concern , there ’ll beplenty of opportunitiesto scare , says the JPL :
https://gizmodo.com/uh-we-almost-got-asteroided-yesterday-5163926
If it ’s distinctive compactness , it would create a 4 kiloton explosion in the Earth ’s atmosphere if it were to hit , which of course it wo n’t . You ’d look an object of this size to vanish within the orbit of the Sun Myung Moon every few days or so .
That ’s what Don Yeomans — manager of the Near - Earth Object Program Office at Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Pasadena , California — said talking about 2009 TM8 and the other 7 million objects in the near - Earth space which , “ needless to say we have discovered only a modest fraction of them . ”
groovy . At 30 feet , something like 2009 TM8 is not as big asthe killer Apophisor as thesuperkillerthat can destruct everything on Earth . But who cares about ruin everything when this affair is orotund enough to annihilate Brooklyn .
https://gizmodo.com/how-asteroid-apophis-could-destroy-the-us-west-coast-in-5130226
Ah well , as if I needed any excuses to fete after this sodding Friday . Zacapa rum , here I come . [ MSNBC ]
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