Huge asteroid whizzes past Earth
A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field passed Earth yesterday at a distance about 2.5 times the space between Earth and the Moon.
The 330-foot-wide (100 meters) asteroid 2013 ET came about 600,000 miles (960,000 kilometres) from Earth when it passed by.
It was too far away for the naked eye and most star gazers but Slooh Space Camera was able to capture the asteroid from the Canary Island Observatory.
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Alfred Falzon
Mar 11th, 17:16
Fugitive asteroids from d Asteroid Belt located between Jupiter & Mars r not uncommon.
Lately they are getting alarmingly more frequent than usual!
Dinosaurs became extinct after asteroids & meteors collided with d Earth turning it into a sunless planet, heralding d start of d Ice Age!
Man, or rather d first hominid (ape-like species), had still not appeared on Earth by that time!
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C Falzon
Mar 11th, 19:48
I don't think they've become more frequent but just that we have become better at detecting them.
Anthony Pace Gouder
Mar 11th, 04:22
We're lucky it passed by at a safe distance . ...... could have cancelled the election, stretching further a never ending 'un-necessary' 2 month campaign!
B. Farrugia
Mar 10th, 22:42
If it had hit us Joseph Muscat`s reign would not have lasted long!
david debattista
Mar 14th, 10:12
NOR WOULD YOU !
Rachel Borg
Mar 14th, 17:11
david debattista . Am I sensing a threat from a die hard Labourite who probably doesn't know what his party stands for?
mark borg
Mar 14th, 19:52
@rachael borg. Rachael once again you sense very wrong....he is a diehard of ex gonzipn that still trying to come to senses after the drubbing they got !
Mark Zerafa
Mar 15th, 08:33
Anke ghax tghaddi asteroid irridu noqghodu naghjru lil xuxlin bil-politika? Imma meta se nikbru f'dal-pajjiz?
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