3rd
March
2009
Fast flying rocks
I had a silly thought, earlier, seeded by something that came on the news. What if I got hit by a flying rock, on the way home from work? Some time on Monday morning (just after my first coffee from the dispenser out back at work), an asteroid missed us by “that much”. How much? Well, according to estimates, something in the range of 72,000 kilometers. Now that’s a distance I can imagine. Forget the lightyear or the parsec or whatever the synonym for “really really far away” on astronomy sites is this week.
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