Friday, November 4, 2011

Science is Cool: We're About to Get Buzzed by an Asteroid

Closer to us than the moon is! Maybe it'll take out the FOX "News" satellite.


[Excerpt]

Asteroid 2005 YU55 To Narrowly Miss Earth

Image from Huffington Post
An asteroid a quarter-mile-wide will, astronomically speaking, narrowly miss Earth next week.
And while it is the closest an asteroid this size has come to the home planet since 1976, there's no need to call Bruce Willis ... yet. . .

Read more at: Huffington Post

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