Monday, March 2, 2009

That was a close shave...

this morning at 5:40 am PST as the newly-discovered asteroid 2009 DD45 zipped past Earth only 72,000 km away - about twice the altitude of a geostationary satellite. The estimated 30- to 40-meter wide rock is similar in size to the Tunguska bolide of 1908.

Whew.

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