Pickup truck-sized asteroid came less than 300 miles from hitting Earth

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Pickup truck-sized asteroid came less than 300 miles from hitting Earth

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Pickup truck-sized asteroid came less than 300 miles from hitting Earth

https://www.foxnews.com/science/pickup- ... ting-earth
 
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Re: Pickup truck-sized asteroid came less than 300 miles from hitting Earth

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Too bad. Not that it would have done much.  Unless it had come straight down, about 80% of it would have vaporized by the time it hit the ground.

However hit from a rock about 20 times that size, about 100 miles off either coast, would solve a lot of our problems.

 
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