Close Call

[meQal]

NASA's Jet Propulsion Labratories is reporting a asteroid about the same size as the one that exploded over Siberia a century ago came with in 48,800 miles of Earth. That is twice the height of orbit for most sattilites and one fith the distance to the moon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_us/asteroid_close_call

[schmendrik]

NASA's Jet Propulsion Labratories is reporting a asteroid about the same size as the one that exploded over Siberia a century ago came with in 48,800 miles of Earth. That is twice the height of orbit for most sattilites and one fith the distance to the moon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_us/asteroid_close_call

Oh, there's more than one to worry about. They have a program tracking all the potential dinosaur-killers for at least the next 100 years.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

Here's a table of all the incoming high-risk asteroids to feed your worries:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

[Jack]

They only spotted it two days ago!  Yikes! 

Well, it would have certainly given us all (hopefully ALL of us  ) something to talk about I guess.