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An asteroid about half the size of a football field will zoom past Earth on Feb. 15, closer than the man-made satellites that power GPS, says NASA.

“This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL said in a video released by NASA this week. Yeomans, however, emphasized that the asteroid, designated 2012DA14, won’t hit Earth.

“It will come interestingly close, closer than many man-made satellites,” he said.

2012DA14 will thread the gap between low earth orbit, where the International Space Station and many earth observation satellites are located and the higher belt of geosynchronous satellites, which provide weather data and telecommunications.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/31/record-setting-asteroid-to-s
have-past-earth-next-month/#ixzz2JcNUMW5U

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Great. Even the fuckin' moon's gotta give us problems in the 2020s.

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