Okay, this breaking news just in from NASA.  An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier is speeding towards the earth as we speak!  Well, I guess as you read.  If you read before it passes us that is!  The asteroid is scheduled to soar between the earth and the moon in the early hours of tuesday morning.  NASA has classified “2005 YU55” as a “potentially hazardous object.”  Asteroid 2005 YU55 is going to pass closer to the earth than any asteroids have done in the past 35 years!

     The asteroid which is estimated to be about 1,300 feet (almost 400 meters) wide is supposed to pass only 201,700 miles from the earth!  Thats it??  My car has more miles on it than that!  “Asteroids have passed this close and even closer in the past” Says Bing Quock, assistant director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Science “but astronomers have not had as much advance notice.” 

       Quock (I checked the spelling many times and no it is not Quack) said that the early alert along with asteroid 2005 YU55s close call with earth will allow NASA to map the surface of this asteroid with extremely high resolution.

     Here is a spontanious interesting fact for you: The last time an asteroid flew this close to earth was in 1976 (Saturday Night, by the Bay City Rollers was one of the biggest songs of the year that year so think WAY back!) and the next time it will happen won’t be until 2028 ( I will be 43 years old then! I better enjoy this one while I still have my youth!)

     For sight seeing the scientists at NASA will be using a 230 foot long antenna out of the Deep Space Network in California. Hmm and they say size doesn’t matter.  A giant Arecibo radio telescope somewhere in Peurto Rico is supposed to be capturing images of asteroid 2005 YU55 as well starting at 3:28 p.m. on November 8th.  Wow 3:28, these guys don’t seem precise at all!  How many seconds after the 28th minute is it going to be!? We NEED to know this info guys!

You can run, but you CAN'T hide!

     Still want to know more?  How bout you track the asteroid through NASA.  Hopefully the guys at NASA have figured out the issues the had with UARS a couple months back and made a few corrections!  Those of you who followed UARS will know what I am
talking about.

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