February 5, 2013

Close Shave with an Asteroid Coming on Feb. 15

Jeffrey Kluger, Time


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If you’re the type to worry, don’t click here—especially if the type of worrying you do is about things that sound really, really scary and that you have absolutely no control over. Clicking on that site you really shouldn’t click on will take you to a page on NASA‘s Near-Earth Object Program website, which lists every comet or asteroid of any size at all that will be passing through Earth’s orbital neighborhood in the upcoming days, months and years.

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