Near Miss
A 100 foot asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of the Earth this evening. That distance is just beyond the geosynchronous orbit occupied by communications satellites. NASA says that there is no chance the rock will hit the Earth, this the closest recorded near miss we've seen. Asteroids about this size are estimated to pass this close on average once every two years, but this is the first time we've detected one ahead of time.
We really, really need to expand the Spacewatch Project so we can get a little more warning shold a bigger asteroid come a little closer.
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Or, we could begin investing
Or, we could begin investing huge sums of money in giant fighting space robots. We'd have Project Spacewatch, Missile Defense, and an invincible American giant space robot army, all in one! It can't miss!