Dammit, someone needs to tell these gorram alien kids to stop throwing rocks at our house....erm, planet!
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
They sure do give celestial objects weird names.
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-anim.php
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Not really. 2011 is the year it was discovered. The first letter, M, means it was discovered in the second half of June and the second letter, D, means it was the 4th object discovered in that time frame.
It was discovered June 22nd and buzzed the Earth 5 days later. The scary fact is a large number of these near misses (or near hits according to Carlin) are only detected a few days before or after their passing due to their small size.
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and I don't mean inebriated.
A little 5-20 meter asteroid, 2011MD, zipped by yesterday getting within 7,500 miles of the surface. This was far enough down Earth's gravity well to cause it to change course by roughly 290 degrees.
Some clever sole, several actually, have made movies of it's passing. Here's one. This is time compressed from roughly 4 hours to 1 minute. Best if you watch it full screen so you can see the asteroid brighten and dim as it tumbles by.
Dry run of "The Coming Storm"? (to make this story game related)
Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
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