A craggy, 1,300-foot wide bit of space rock missed Earth tonight in the closest encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades.
Countless asteroids, gravity wells and other celestial bodies had shaped its course that could have turned this near miss into a disaster, said Ron Dantowitz, director of the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Mass.
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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
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The last big one 60,000 years ago is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and they were around for 160 million years. We've only been around 250,000 years (homo sapiens). Who knows if we could survive such a cataclysmic event?
