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	Its good to know when we are about to be hit

Packrat61

12-11-2008 7:52 PM

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On December 11, 2008 there were 1010 potentially hazardous asteroids.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c26d88ee-088b-4668-9601-5aa01e05ac3a/75B48ECC-50DE-4B88-B820-45834058FE54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spaceweather.com/" href="http://spaceweather.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">spaceweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD background="images/hazard_asts_tabl_r1_c3.jpg" class="nearEarthAsteroidsText" colspan="2">Near-Earth 
            Asteroids </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" class="storyStandardText" colspan="2">Potentially Hazardous 
            Asteroids (<A href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/groups.html" linkindex="33">PHAs</A>) 
            are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer 
            to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course 
            with our planet, although astronomers are finding <A href="http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Dangerous.html" linkindex="34">new 
            ones</A> all the time. 
            <TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG height="12" width="10" src="http://spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><DIV align="center">On 
              December 11, 2008              there were <SPAN class="numAsteroidsText">1010</SPAN> potentially 
              hazardous asteroids. </DIV>
            <TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG height="12" width="10" src="http://spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><DIV align="center"><SPAN class="asteroidEncountersText"><FONT size="3">Dec. 
              2008 Earth-asteroid encounters:</FONT></SPAN> 
              <TABLE height="105" width="97%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1" bgcolor="#fffff0"><TBODY><TR><TD width="27%" class="asteroidTableColumnTitleText">Asteroid</TD><TD width="19%" class="asteroidTableColumnTitleText"><DIV align="center">Date(UT)</DIV></TD><TD width="24%" class="asteroidTableColumnTitleText">Miss Distance</TD><TD width="13%" class="asteroidTableColumnTitleText"><DIV align="center">Mag.</DIV></TD><TD width="17%" class="asteroidTableColumnTitleText"><DIV align="center">Size</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 WY94;orb=1" linkindex="35">2008 
                    WY94</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      5</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">3.2 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">19</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">35 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 WG14;orb=1" linkindex="36">2008 
                    WG14</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      5 </DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">4.8 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">17</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">49 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 XK;orb=1" linkindex="37">2008 
                    XK</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      6</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">1.7 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">17</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">15 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 XC1;orb=1" linkindex="38">2008 
                    XC1</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      12</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">4.3 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">16</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">102 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 XB2;orb=1" linkindex="39">2008 
                    XB2</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      13</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">5.8 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">18</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">47 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2006 VB14;orb=1" linkindex="40">2006 
                    VB14</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      14</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">36 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">15</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">795 m</DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD height="17"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1" class="asteroidTableDatumText"><A href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008 EV5;orb=1" linkindex="41">2008 
                    EV5</A></FONT></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">Dec. 
                      23 </DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">8.4 LD</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">13</DIV></TD><TD class="asteroidTableDatumText"><DIV align="center">435 m</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
            <TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG height="7" width="10" src="http://spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN class="asteroidNotesText"><B>Notes:</B> LD means "Lunar Distance." 
            1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also 
            equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on 
            the date of closest approach.</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/75B48ECC-50DE-4B88-B820-45834058FE54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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