Asteroid to pass within 20,000klm of Earth

[bhundu]

Asteroid to pass within 12,000klm of Earth

That's still mighty close in the scheme of things.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/27/3254447.htm

How about Apophis in 2029? That one sounds interesting. I hope Bruce Willis will still be around.

 

[Sir.Byrd]

The article says 12,000 kilometers, even less!

 

[Numistrek09]

Hummm, another near miss. Nothing unusual actually, stuff like this is rather common. (Scary isn't it?) Apophis is something to watch, but should be another non issue. Now there is another rock, i forget the name & number assigned to it, but it DOES have a good chance of hitting the Earth. But no worries yet guys, it won't happen (if at all) till the year 2880. So we got time.

 

[bhundu]

The article says 12,000 kilometers, even less!

Thanks. Fixed the title.

 

[AnalogDigit]

The Dinosaurs had their time on earth and so will we. It is just a matter of when our time is up.

 

[tubed]

The closer the better...if at all.

 

[Scuzzer]

Ah c'mon, that's barely an asteroid. If it hit us we wouldn't really notice. If it was an order of magnitude larger and an order of magnitude closer then it might be something to fear.

 

[jimfet]

I'm not missing any sleep over it.