Tag: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Maybe my kids should worry about 2009 BD – but I won’t
Today is my eldest daughter’s 16th birthday. That means in April 2078 she will be a sprightly 82. I will, though, I am sure, be long gone at 112. And, maybe she should be worried about 2009 BD, the 10 metre lump of rock that passes inside the Moon’s orbit this week – because on…
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The end of the world is nigh: 2 June 2011
Actually, its unlikely, at least in the short term. I discovered today that the Jet Propulsion Library run an easy to use website on objects that come close to Earth – and then went on to discover that it was predicting an object, travelling at 2000 metres per second relative to the Earth was due…