That was Close!

Early this morning (12:33 am) the asteroid 2007-tu24 passed within 334,000 miles of Earth early this morning. That's about one-and-a-half times the distance of Earth to the moon."


Radar images (above) showed 2007-tu24 to be about 600 feet wide. Scientists at NASA said it was "the closest approach by a known asteroid of this size or larger until 2027. Of course, the big collision headed our way may not even be known about, yet. This one was just discovered last October, and we know about maybe half of the objects like this in Earth-crossing orbits.


Here's a cheery little video about what could have happened. Let's just hope that it doesn't happen during the next year, Lord knows what kind of draconian actions and rights-stripping legislation the neo-cons from Cheneyland would come up with.