:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 3.19.2004 ::
:: "Asteroid Makes Close Earth Flyby" ::
From Discovery.com:
March 19, 2004 —An asteroid 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter on Thursday made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, though there was never danger of a collision, NASA said.
The asteroid, nicknamed "2004 FH," passed 43,000 kilometers (26,500 miles) from Earth at 5:08 p.m. ET, according to researchers funded by NASA.
An average of one object roughly the size of this asteroid passes within a similar distance about every two years, but in the past they had gone undetected.
This particular close approach is unusual only in the sense that scientists know about it," NASA said in a press release.
Asteroid 2004 FH's point of closest approach with the Earth was over the South Atlantic Ocean. The object was bright enough to be seen during this close approach from areas of Europe, Asia and most of the Southern Hemisphere Using a good pair of binoculars, the press release said.
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