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01 Nov 17
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A bus-sized asteroid came within 54,000 miles of Earth on Oct 2 and on Oct 12 a rock of a similar size came within 27,000 miles of our planet's surface.
You wait ages for an asteroid and then two come along at once.
You wait ages for an asteroid and then two come along at once.
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I heard the nearest miss was one than whizzed past the earth a metre right.
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For something the size of a bus sounds along way away.
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If it hit say, Blackpool, it would probably do about £150 worth of damage.
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Do we need more Blackpool rock?
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And they both whizzed past without stopping.
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Don't you mean £150 of improvements.
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we didn't know about them until recent years. Very few really big hits last few hundred years. I think Tunguska was a comet like the Jupiter hit.
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I think one landed somewhere in Russia in 2013
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