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Large Asteroid Passing Today. Give it a Wave?

04/29/2020 7:07 AM

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/asteroid-52768-1998-or2-april-2020-how-to-see

There's no need to phone Bruce Willis about this one.

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Re: Large asteroid passing today - give it a wave?

04/29/2020 9:05 AM

Will anyone/thing wave back?

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04/29/2020 10:17 AM

If you read this, I guess it didn't hit us. If it had, I suppose that would have solved the covid-19 crisis.
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04/29/2020 10:44 AM

Quite.

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04/29/2020 10:50 AM

Given that this asteroid came as close as four million miles, I wonder how much of an orbital change we imparted?

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04/29/2020 11:04 AM

Ears briefly perked up on proctologists the world over.

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04/29/2020 5:08 PM

Would that be a "...ye olde single-digit..." salute by any chance?

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04/30/2020 5:03 AM

Only if you are a Proctologist.

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Re: Large Asteroid Passing Today. Give it a Wave?

05/01/2020 6:29 PM

Following your suggestion, I gave it a Jedi hand wave, saying "this is not the planet you are looking for." It must have worked, because here we are unharmed.

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