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Can this be real?
It says that a 200 meter diameter near earth asteroid (NEA) is on a collision course with Earth.
"We are nearly certain that it will enter the Earth's atmosphere in the year 2016." -- principal investigator.
Check it out here:
[http://www.space.com/news/asteroid_british_000915.html]http://www.space.com/news/asteroid_british_000915.html
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Can this be real?
It says that a 200 meter diameter near earth asteroid (NEA) is on a collision course with Earth.
"We are nearly certain that it will enter the Earth's atmosphere in the year 2016." -- principal investigator.
Check it out here:
[http://www.space.com/news/asteroid_british_000915.html]http://www.space.com/news/asteroid_british_000915.html
The link is from 15 September 2000. . .
Got any better data? Or maybe re-post tomorrow, April 2nd?
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There were several false alarms back then. The asteroid-searching teams now have better mechanisms to make sure anything they say is reliable and won't cause unnecessary panic.
-- RobS
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Good job Bill.
Hey, you have to have some April Fool's jokes, right?
Maybe next year I'll spend more than 15 seconds preparing one.
If I remember right there was a good one last year about Bill Gates initiating a Mars mission.
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