An asteroid as large as five football fields will zoom by Earth - TopicsExpress



          

An asteroid as large as five football fields will zoom by Earth Monday night. The near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 will come within 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) of our planet — about nine times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon — Monday (July 29) at 8:37 p.m. EDT. There is no chance that 2003 DZ15 will strike Earth on this pass, scientists say. The 500-foot-wide (152 meters) asteroid will probably be too faint for most sky watchers to observe from their backyards, but there will be live broadcasts on the web. What are your thoughts? Should tax dollars go towards figuring out how to protect us from these massive objects?
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:40:29 +0000

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