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by Tory Shepherd

09 Nov 09:00am

Filed under: Asteroids, Earth, Nasa, Space

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Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it the coming carbon tax calamity? No! It’s Asteroid 2005 YU55!

The asteroid is made of strange square-like shapes… Pic: AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-Caltech

The 400m-wide rock (please let us know if you need this translated to Olympic swimming pool or football field units of measurement) will whiz by Earth today at a whopping 19km a second, a mere 324,600 km away. That’s closer than the friggin’ moon!

But don’t head for your swine-flu-resistant bunker, we’re going to be fine. Reassuringly, NASA says we’re not going to get smashed to bits by asteroids for 100 years. That means your bunker’s probably a good real estate investment, keep stockpiling that Spam!

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Eleanor says:

08:27pm | 13/11/11

Amy - Like you, I also have a problem with people suffering. Especially because of the malice, greed, or general lack of sympathy by the rest of us. To my understanding, this strike wouldn’t wipe out all of humanity, but just enough for us to survive and re-evaluate what’s really… Read more »
amy says:

07:35pm | 11/11/11

@Ben I am an athiest….or a “whatever”-ist I was under the impression that mass genocide of the human race was a bit crazy..thatsall @leah I generally consider myself a pretty logical person..I just have a porblem with other people suffering..you know? Read more »

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