In other news today...
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@Bulb Pshhhh, I posted it first.
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Oh no Mr Bill!
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@topspin That's why the cross-link says “see also” here, but
in the other dread
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smoke on the fieeeld
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I’m kind of puzzled these people still exist in the public sphere.
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"The last time we had an object this big or bigger pass this close to Earth was ... in 2001.
Maybe for an object this size, but just last year we had
An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded.
The small near-Earth asteroid, called 2023 BU, zipped over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET Thursday about 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. This distance was well within the orbit of global satellites.
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