May have been the easiest captcha ever. Might go buy a lottery ticket!
September 1st, close pass asteroid
0.3Δ⊕L (lunar distance) about 72K miles away
About 100' long
At about 18,000mph
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20ES4&orb=1
Mornin' Swordy!
Since the anniversary and all.
o7, Anons!
On the contrary, these happen all the time, Anon. No one said it was going to hit, 72,000 miles away. It is just an unusually close pass.
We had one a couple of months ago that went through our atmosphere.
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