Article: Asteroid whizzed safely past Earth

A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet (45-meters) wide, whizzed safely past Earth on Friday, the same day a much smaller, previously undetected meteor hit Russia, injuring nearly 1,000 people.

Live images from a telescope at the Gingin Observatory in western Australia showed the asteroid looking like a white streak, moving across against a backdrop of black sky.
 
Another one of our ancestors throwing a wave hello. Pretty impressive :))
 
Pretty frightening actually...

Wasn't it an Asteroid that took out the Dinosaurs?

If this thing was whizzing past us in and around the 21st of December 2012 there might have been a bit of panic on planet earth.
 
sand_man said:
Pretty frightening actually...

Wasn't it an Asteroid that took out the Dinosaurs?

If this thing was whizzing past us in and around the 21st of December 2012 there might have been a bit of panic on planet earth.
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I understand it landed in Mexico hence the Mexican basin aka Valley of Mexico. Also just a current theory. It's more propable though that changing climate conditions was a major factor.
 
Beerisgood said:
I understand it landed in Mexico hence the Mexican basin aka Valley of Mexico. Also just a current theory. It's more propable though that changing climate conditions was a major factor.
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The Dinos were polluting the earth!
 
Beerisgood said:
I understand it landed in Mexico hence the Mexican basin aka Valley of Mexico. Also just a current theory. It's more propable though that changing climate conditions was a major factor.
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An asteroid smashing into your backyard can have a serious impact on the climate.
 
sand_man said:
Wasn't it an Asteroid that took out the Dinosaurs?
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There is strong evidence that the impactor that created the Chicxulub crater was at least partly responsible for the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event (though, it's possible that there were other contributing factors such as increased volcanism and/or marine regression, with the Chicxulub impact being the event that tipped the scales).
 
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