> From: "Jones Beene" <jone...@pacbell.net>\ > Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:08:49 PM\ > On Feb. 15, a week from Friday - a decent sized asteroid will come > extremely close to Earth... within the orbit of many satellites > NASA sez: "we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth." > How close exactly? 17,200 miles.
For close misses I calculate the distance with the diameter of earth scaled to the width of my head (7 inches side-to-side). 17,200 miles vs 7,926 diameter : 7 inches = a bullet whizzing by at 15 inches. DUCK!!!!
