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'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 10:58:14 AM   
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A large asteroid the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has passed safely by Earth.
The object, measured to be almost a kilometre wide, came within five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Known as 2014 JO25, the asteroid is the biggest such space rock to skim our world since 2004.

Astronomers say the best opportunity to view the rock will come in the dark hours of Wednesday night.

Radar imagery using Nasa's 70m (230 ft) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California reveal a peanut-shaped asteroid that rotates about once every five hours.

The asteroid passed Earth at a distance of 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) at 13:24 BST on Wednesday, 19 April.

The next known encounter of an asteroid of about this size will occur in 2027 when the 800m-wide (half-mile-wide) asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 380,000 km (236,000 miles).

harbinger of doom – now if it took out Englishsire jackal land they would not be missed…fingers crossed for the next one eh! guffaws
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RE: 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 11:57:20 AM   
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RE: 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 12:40:34 PM   
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Ps I know but it be fuking worth it guffaws and as the saying goes one Englishshire jackal is one too many - and whom amongst us all would disagree?

That aside I think it was more about the fragility of the huwmans

Now what was the better movie:

Deep Impact - what the women call me guffaws guffaws
Or Armageddon


Armageddon I feel

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RE: 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 7:46:35 PM   
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'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth

A large asteroid the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has passed safely by Earth.
The object, measured to be almost a kilometre wide, came within five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Known as 2014 JO25, the asteroid is the biggest such space rock to skim our world since 2004.

Astronomers say the best opportunity to view the rock will come in the dark hours of Wednesday night.

Radar imagery using Nasa's 70m (230 ft) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California reveal a peanut-shaped asteroid that rotates about once every five hours.

The asteroid passed Earth at a distance of 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) at 13:24 BST on Wednesday, 19 April.

The next known encounter of an asteroid of about this size will occur in 2027 when the 800m-wide (half-mile-wide) asteroid 1999 AN10 will fly by at one lunar distance, about 380,000 km (236,000 miles).

harbinger of doom – now if it took out Englishsire jackal land they would not be missed…fingers crossed for the next one eh! guffaws

Missed by about three seconds.

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RE: 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 8:13:11 PM   
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RE: 'Gibraltar-sized' space rock passes Earth - 4/19/2017 11:04:09 PM   
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