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No fair sneaking up on a planet

posted by Zed on March 20 2002 11:17

Asteroid 2002 EM7 passed almost as close to the Earth as the moon is, and no one knew till four days later.

If it pierced the atmosphere, the approximately 70-meter-long rock could have disintegrated and unleashed the energy equivalent of a 4-megaton nuclear bomb, researchers said.

And we had absolutely no time to train oil-well drillers to be astronauts.

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