USA Today
An asteroid the size of a football stadium capable of leveling an entire city hurtled by Earth on Friday at 41,000 miles per hour.
Despite its destructive powers, astronomers say we never had anything to fear: The colossal space rock harmlessly whizzed by, as expected, within 1.7 million miles of Earth β or seven times the distance from our planet to the moon.
The trajectory of the asteroid, named 2008 OS7, may have given it a wide berth as it passed Earth, but it still flew close enough to our planet for astronomers to want to track its path. More
Dang! Gotta adjust the windage…a graze taking D.C., Boston, and New York City would be ideal.
That’s too bad! That would fix the biggest problem facing this country.
If they knew one was going to strike earth would they tell us?
Foul Shot And A Miss.
Jethro, no they wouldn’t. But if we start seeing the government close up shop for a few days, we will know! They are all in their bunkers and leaving us to die.
May God direct the asteroid directly to their bunker.
Roll up the windows, lock the doors and drive on by.
I ALWAYS root for the comet, asteroid, meteor, etc.
Sure it wasn’t a red Tesla Roadster?
Better luck next time.
Friday? Wrong day. If you want to catch our government at “work”, midweek is best. One bad apples spoils the bunch so you really don’t want any apples remaining.
That works out to about 1270 Megatons of energy.
Not sure, but I think that’s a lot.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were about 20 Kilotons each.
So that’s about 60,476 Hiroshima bombs.
I hope the maggots have good bunkers.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Yup a tad more than a “City Killer”….
FJB
Hillarys new book on this administration: “It Takes An Asstrhoid”
“It’s only missed by 1,500,000 miles” Is pure BS. Darwinian astronomers had diarrhea!