As we all went about our business today the earth barely missed an encounter with Asteroid 2011 MD. The little otherwise unknowable chunk of rock came withing 7500 miles of hitting the earth. I’ve read that it’s diameter as somewhere between 5 (yawn) and 20.. (yikes) meters.    7500 miles ?  That’s just  the distance between Burlington and Bombay !!!!!!!! I was both relieved.. and I admit a little disappointed to learn that even a 20 meter chunk of rock would be reduced to just some big chunks of very dangerous junk by our atmosphere.. Nothing big enough to kill off the dinosaurs.. if they were still with us. Not even big enough to create a crater big enough to call for a national park..

 

Still the prospect of a collision and the collective sigh of relief that we all would have breathed had we known this was coming was quite spectacular.

I love tat the fact nothing happened was newsworthy

I can take much more of that.. ..

nite all, nite sam

-me