"a425couple" wrote in message news
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i didn't pay much attention to this recent news story
until i read the asteroid is a Half Mile Long...!
my god

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.8bdac014c25c

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...t-in-400-years

marc

Yes, it is large enough to be serious.
But it is missing Earth, by quite a ways.
If you would like reading a novel about similar,
I'd suggest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ha..._(Clarke_novel)

***We were hoping for a direct hit on the sewage lagoon/swimming pool in
Hagar's trailer park.