The planet Earth dodged a bullet literally on Monday 2 March as a fireball asteroid came very close to slamming into the planet or the moon. Had it hit, it would have caused an enormous explosion on a par with the famed 1908 Tunguska impact in Eastern Siberia. If the asteroid had come down in one of the oceans, a pretty good sized tsunami would have resulted. Sometime in the coming decades, a body from space of this size or larger will impact the planet with unbelievable detrimental and destructive consequences.http://skywatch-media.com/2009/03/earth-had-close-encounter-with-40-yard.html
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