NASA: WISE Spacecraft Located Most Massive Near-Earth Asteroids, But 10% Still Unaccounted Fo

[Hoosier Daddy]

Source: HuffPost

LOS ANGELES — If you're worried about a killer asteroid wiping out Earth, NASA has some good news.

The space agency said Thursday it has identified more than 90 percent of giant, potentially Earth-threatening asteroids, including ones as big as the one thought to have killed the dinosaurs eons ago.

"We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced our risk" of an impact, said Amy Mainzer of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA researchers also downgraded their estimate of the number of medium-sized asteroids, saying there are 44 percent fewer than previously believed. The downside is that scientists have yet to find many of these mid-sized asteroids, which could destroy a metropolitan city.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/nasa-wise-asteroids_n_987660.html

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Psst! NASA! The other 10% aren't asteroids, just assholes blocking everything Obama wants to do!

[Po_d Mainiac]

1. What u don't know might fuck up u'r day...n/t

[Hoosier Daddy]

2. Especially if it lands on your crotch!

OWWWWWW! DON'T DO THAT!

[Kurmudgeon]

3. It's a start. Better firing rockets into the air instead of each other when the big one may be comin