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General => The REST Room => Topic started by: harv on February 24, 2014, 08:56:18 PM

Title: Well This Was A Bit Close!!!
Post by: harv on February 24, 2014, 08:56:18 PM

Won't put the link in the first post cos these forums are pants but an 880lb asteroid hit the Moon :o

Title: Re: Well This Was A Bit Close!!!
Post by: harv on February 24, 2014, 08:57:12 PM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57619423-1/880-pound-asteroid-slams-into-moon-watch-it-go-boom/

Quita a big bang, the equivalent of 15 tonnes of TNT

Title: Re: Well This Was A Bit Close!!!
Post by: Late on February 24, 2014, 09:39:03 PM

Meh. If it had come to Earth instead of the moon it wouldn't have made it through the atmosphere. It was tiny (1m wide).
The one that broke up over Russia last year was 19m wide.

Bearing in mind the fairly small one was 3'000 miles away from the Uk and the positively tiny one was 384'000 miles away from Earth I don't think we need worry.

Title: Re: Well This Was A Bit Close!!!
Post by: harv on February 24, 2014, 10:20:57 PM

Makes you think though...the end could be nigh :o

Mind you...it could have been a UFO and there's a big cover up. 8)

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said... :o :o :o