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gmby [soylentnews.org] writes:

from-the-duck-and-cover-of-cold-space-deprt

NatGeo says:

"Near ­Earth Asteroid (NEO), 2000 EM26, measuring 885 feet (270 meters) across and traveling at a speed of 27,000 miles per hour will zip by our planet on Monday, February 17th. Thankfully there is no chance of collision since it will miss our planet by a safe margin of 0.018 Astronomical Unit (AU) or 2.6 million kilometers, nearly 9 times the distance separating the Earth from the moon." Watch it live at: nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com]

If you wish to shoot it down you may need NASAs help here: 2000 EM26 [nasa.gov]

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