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Dangerous space rocks under watch


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Reuters News Service,

04/09/04

Scientists and astronomers at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Labratory reported today that they had discovered a 1 km sized asteroid with a projected flight path to hit Earth in or around the Washington DC area. They reportedly smiled broadly and said sssshhhh.

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Objects certainly have hit the planet. An asteroid, or several asteroids, are believed to have kicked up so much dust and set off so much volcanic activity 65 million years ago that the resulting climate change wiped out the dinosaurs.

But scientists believe an event of that size would only occur about every 700,000 years on average.

whew... glad i wont be around...

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