RX: "We should go out tonight and look up in the sky. 2012TC4 will come within 59,000 miles..."
Me: "It's only the size of a house; still, that's practically a glancing blow on the cosmic scale."
RX: "...or 15 kilometers."
Me: "Wait, did you say fifteen...?"
RX: "Or whatever. I don't know what that is in American Money."
Friday, October 12, 2012
Overheard in the Office...
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Meh, it's the third one this month to pass inside the lunar orbit.
www.spaceweather.com
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for recent & upcoming near Earth asteroids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to know how close it comes in kallikams.
Did we make it? All I can get from the News is the usual "Romney Sucks!"
"They're dead, Dave. They're all dead."
(The Computer, in Red Dwarf.)
Here's something fun to play with:
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/
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