NASA reports a "potentially hazardous" asteroid will come close to Earth on February 15, 2020

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13,385,378 m³ ÷ 399,480 m² ≈ 110 feet high

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Now, I realize NASA has not said where it is likely to strike.

But if Anime is any indicator, it will manage to hit the tiny sliver of land that is Japan, and the meteor will be a space craft filled with Hot Chicks.

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we are working on that

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Chocolate cheesecake covered in cherry pie filling! I never would have thought of that—but it sounds delicious!

Enjoy! I had a very tasty lemon bar/tart tonight. They’re made with a kind of lemon custard over a wonderful flakey crust. That was my Valentine treat.

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And the blast will open a pre-existing ancient portal to a demonic dimension, allowing flesh-eating but beautiful monsters to come through to our world and hunt the remnants of humanity.

But an unlikely hero will rise up, to fight on behalf of Earth against the Darkness! And he or she will be very attractive. :grinning:

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God bless thoses PHA’s said every NASA CEO seeking continued funding and performance bonus.

Wow, you guys are harsh! “Potentially hazardous” is exactly that. It’s orbit means that it will not hit us this go round, but given the vagaries of gravitational influences and the depth of cosmic time, it could “potentially” correct that error on any given pass. There are enough impact craters on our pretty blue world to testify to this happening in the both distant and relatively recent past, and will certainly happen again. I am glad we are beginning to at least monitor PHAs even if we could not really do much about them just yet.

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Well one time a comet came close but not hitting earth. But it turned out the tail came through the atmosphere, and that fused moving parts of metal.

Civilization declined before the scientists were able to solve the problem. They had to filter the air, and luckily some kid had had the foresight to pack a motor away before it was affected, so they could generate power to do the experiments and filter the air.

It’s documented in “The Year When Stardust Fell” by Raymond f. Jones. Came out in the fifties,I read it out of the library about fifty years ago.

It was of course one of the Winston jevenile science fiction series.

Ummm, ok…?

Also no, or less, moon is no good…

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