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Asteroid fly-by

Posted at 12:29 PM on October 11, 2010 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Science

Another asteroid is whizzing by earth this week. It was only discovered on Saturday, according to Discover Magazine's website. It's the size of an SUV and will miss earth by 28,000 miles.

The comments section of the post, filled with wonderful nerdiness, calculates that the asteroid's chances of hitting Earth at some point are on the order of eight magnitudes less than this.

Comments (1)

I can't be the first one to notice the typo in the video.

Posted by kwatt | October 12, 2010 8:44 AM

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