Another asteroid is whizzing by earth this week. It was only discovered on Saturday, according to Discover Magazine’s website. It’s the size of an SUV and will miss earth by 28,000 miles.
The comments section of the post, filled with wonderful nerdiness, calculates that the asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth at some point are on the order of eight magnitudes less than this.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins