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AndrewR
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Asteroid to near miss in 2029.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=58431

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Aban Rune
Former ascended being
Member # 226

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I thought this was a Stargate thread.

Odd that they should give an asteroid that they say has a very low chance of hitting Earth a name that means "the destroyer".

The article doesn't really elaborate, but why is there a chance that it will hit Earth after it passes by? Will it pass by again whilst Earth is on the other side of its orbit in the following years?

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Cartman
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Member # 256

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Because, in passing, the asteroid's orbit around the sun will be unpredictably altered by the Earth's gravitational pull, which might lead to a collision when it intercepts our fair planet again (its orbit crosses that of the Earth twice).

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