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Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid 99

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:55PM from the best-seats-in-the-house dept.

spineas writes "In case you're not in a prime viewing position for tonight's fly-by of Asteroid 2000 EM26, never fear, for the event will be webcast live for all around the world to see. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Slooh Space Camera will be broadcasting the 3-football-field-long asteroid as it zips by us at nearly 27,000 miles per hour. Astronomer Bob Berman will be answering questions during the broadcast, submitted via Twitter with the hashtag #Asteroid."

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metric, motherfuckers (Score:5, Funny)

by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:57PM (#46270247) Homepage Journal

3 football fields? For those of us in the rest of the world who've abandoned the beta measurement system, what's that in elephants?

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Re:metric, motherfuckers (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:07PM (#46270337)

3 football fields? For those of us in the rest of the world who've abandoned the beta measurement system, what's that in elephants?
270 Meters. About 67.5 Elephants.

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Re:metric, motherfuckers (Score:5, Funny)

by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:13PM (#46270391) Homepage Journal

African or European?

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Live Feed (Score:4, Funny)

by ArcadeNut ( 85398 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:17PM (#46270421) Homepage

Here is a live feed of the Asteroid event [youtube.com]...

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Re:metric, motherfuckers (Score:5, Funny)

by allcoolnameswheretak ( 1102727 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:29PM (#46270535)

In other news, 68% of Americans don't know that there are no native elephants in Europe.

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Re:metric, motherfuckers (Score:2, Funny)

by allcoolnameswheretak ( 1102727 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:37PM (#46270603)

In other news, an American troll told an American poster to shut the fuck up today, adding "cry baby" as final insult.

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Re:metric, motherfuckers (Score:4, Funny)

by JustinKSU ( 517405 ) writes: on Monday February 17, 2014 @07:02PM (#46271273)

...as it zips by us at nearly 385 cheetahs.

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