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Near Earth Asteroid Event:

04/15/2011 04:51PM

Near Earth Asteroid Event:

A 50-meter asteroid is flying past the Earth-Moon system on April 15th. There's no danger of a collision, but the 50-meter space rock is remarkable. It is elongated and spinning, which causes the asteroid to flash like a strobe light in amateur telescopes.


Comments:

Whew, a fifty meter object could wreak some havoc, no?
  • kevin1962 [James K. Burke]
  • 04/18/2011 03:11PM
Looking at the video you can see that it is an elongated object, or is that just what my eyes want to see?