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An asteriod came within a half-million miles of earth Monday. That might sound like a long way off but it's only twice the distance to the moon.
"It's a fairly substantial rock. If it had hit us at that sort of speed, you would be taking out a medium-size country, France, I suppose, or Texas, or something of that order,' said Jay Tate, director of the Spaceguard Center in Wales. (MSNBC)
We've just got to get off this planet. I don't know if we're alone in the cosmos or not. I do know that all our hopes are pinned on this planet right now. We've had extinction level meteors hit our planet before. We can again. It sure would be nice to have a backup planet.
posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:33 PM Print
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