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defacto7

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21. There are 2019 potentially hazerdous space rocks to date.

Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:55 PM

Feb 2020

Those are the real stats.

A PHA is a space rock larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet

There are new ones detected regularly and there are ones we can't detect because they could come from around the sun out of our view while passing through the solar system. Those happen pretty often.

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Awesome! GreenEyedLefty Feb 2020 #2

Trump plans to combat it by attacking it on Twitter. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2020 #3

Expected to pass within 3.6 million miles. Claritie Pixie Feb 2020 #4

NASA's saying it's "potentially hazardous" Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #9

I guess so in space travel - within a range where it could hit us, depending on unknown variables. Claritie Pixie Feb 2020 #14

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There are 2019 potentially hazerdous space rocks to date. defacto7 Feb 2020 #21

Why would a gaming site be reporting breaking news?? blugbox Feb 2020 #22

Why not? Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #23

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