Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Sky Is Falling

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroid-20080125.html

It's only 800 feet across. No big deal I guess, but it's passing really close. They don't say it, but in the past, asteroids and comets get caught in the gravitational field when they pass by a planet. Like Hale Bopp did, but that was Jupiter, a much larger planet.

I think a rock the size of a football stadium could do some serious damage if it held together on the way in. Forget global warming, the sky is falling! Panic about this!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/01/26/dead.satellite.ap/index.html

Yep, even our own spy satellites are trying to kill us. This one is a secret though, so hush you...

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