Back-to-back asteroids 'harmlessly' fly past Earth

[vacuum]

It kind of makes me wonder if this is in any way related to the face cannibal + guy throwing his intestines at police.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_ASTEROID_FLYBYS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-29-19-21-18

May 29, 7:21 PM EDT



PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A newly discovered small asteroid has harmlessly zipped close to Earth - just as scientists expected.
The 16-foot-long space rock, discovered on Memorial Day, passed by early Tuesday at a distance of 8,950 miles from the Earth's surface.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which tracks such flybys, said the asteroid - dubbed 2012 KT42 - was the sixth closest asteroid approach.


It was the second asteroid encounter this week. On Monday, another asteroid, measuring 69 feet across, flew by at a distance of 32,000 miles.

[gunDriller]

this reminds me of that movie Armegeddon.

actually i think, one of the best sci-fi movies of the late '90's.

about an asteroid that they blow up with a nuclear bomb.

Bruce Willis plays the hero who stays behind to set the bomb off manually.

also it's Ben Affleck's first & maybe best movie role. he plays a convincing oil rig worker who is shagging the Willis character's daughter, who is played by Liv Tyler.

also has Steve Buscemi in one of his best roles as a lecherous genius geologist.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq6q2BrTino


the other 1998 asteroid movie, Deep Impact, sucked, compared to Armageddon.


i actually think this is one of the few real reasons to have a "space program".

since we live in a universe with asteroids whizzing by, and have been hit by asteroids before, well it's just a matter of time before we get hit again.

something comparable to Siberia 1908, or what hit the Yucatan 65 million years ago.

[Neuro]

A 16 foot asteroid wouldn't do anything remarkable even if it did hit earth. Most of it would burn up in the atmosphere...