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Old 25-07-2019, 07:27 PM
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Close call today by Asteroid that came sunny side
Because it came from the sun side heading outbound it wasn't noticed till this morning, it could have had catastrophic consequences with little warning
https://www.theage.com.au/national/e...25-p52apn.html
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Old 25-07-2019, 09:00 PM
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Wow!

I started to do some envelope-calcs on probability, but this article is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object
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