The end of the world (as we know it)
Posted by Mr. Buracas on 2011/11/08
… is not happening anytime soon.
In other news, this asteroid will be passing pretty close to Earth, between the Moon and us, tonight.
Sometime tonight, Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass with 324 000 km of Earth. Luna is about 385 000 km from us. So this is a very very close call. The closest such passage in 35 years.
From the Time Science Website:
Astronomers have known for several years that Nov. 8, 2011, would end one of two ways: either uneventfully or with a massive global cataclysm that would leave a 4-mile (6.5 km) crater somewhere on the planet, unleash 70-ft. (21 m) tsunami waves and potentially claim tens of thousands of victims. The messiness, they knew, would begin at 6:28 p.m. E.T.
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Charly Archibald, 6d said
It is very freaky to think thet are life could come to an end!
in a couple of years or even months this beautiful world would dissapear.
How can that happen?
The universe is a scary Place!