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2\5\13

Earth safe from asteroid flyby next week

By Mike Wall

Fox News
2\5\13
Science
Earth safe from asteroid flyby next week | Fox News

The asteroid is hurdling through space while you read this. A 131 feet wide(40 meters)asteroid will come closer than our very own satellites in the geosynchronous orbit(22,000 miles from earth). This asteroid's name is Asteroid 2012 DA14. This event was mentioned on January 31st, on the same website and said almost the exact same thing. This asteroid will come in the orbit on February 15th. This asteroid is only 17,200 miles away. So I'll be the first to tell you to get your telescope ready because the US might be able to see it during the day. "NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office can accurately predict the asteroid's path with the observations obtained, and it is therefore known that there is no chance that the asteroid might be on a collision course with Earth," officials at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wrote in a statement Friday, Feb. 1. There is no chance it will hit us, but if you want to see a video about it go to http://www.space.com/19646-asteroid-2012-da14-earth-flyby-complete-coverage.html

         This would be harmful if it got about 17 thousand miles closer. When you see the words Record Setting Asteroid To Shave Past Earth Next Month, what would you do!?There is not a bias. The earth has been hit by asteroids before and 1 killed the dinosaurs, others have just hit and done nothing. This will be like the others not the one. This reminds me of history like the dinosaurs. Science relates because the gravitational pull brings them down in to our atmosphere. According to what I know now about this event I know we will be safe because I read this article, what will happen next is we will be happy and nothing will change.