Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:08:28 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] You bet your sweet Asteroid!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size
of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our
planet's surface. There's no danger of a collision, but the space rock,
designated 2012 DA14, has NASA's attention.

"This is a record-setting close approach," says Don Yeomans of NASA's
Near Earth Object Program at JPL. "Since regular sky surveys began in
the 1990s, we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth."
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<http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/28jan_2012da/>

And we aren't trying to catch it, damnit!

     mark "DUCK!"