02-25-2004, 02:38 PM
What a bummer. How close is 7.5 million miles anyway?
Quote:Earth was minutes from asteroid alert
Scientists reveal they nearly warned Bush of potential devastation
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Posted: February 25, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Astronomers were within minutes of alerting President Bush to a potentially devastating asteroid they believed had a 25 percent chance of hitting Earth.
The asteroid turned out to be even bigger than expected, about 1,600 feet wide, but it eventually passed the planet at a distance of about 7.5 million miles, about 32 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, BBC News reported.
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