Sunday 17 January 2010

Mystery Space Object Whizzes Past Our Planet


A mystery object from space whizzed close by Earth last Thursday but scientists are somewhat stumped by what it was. The fast-moving entity only measured between 33 and 50 feet across so would not have caused devastation had it hit the planet.

It made its closest pass at just 76,000 miles away, which is a third of the distance to the Moon. Amateur astronomers were able to track it in the United States. The object was discovered by MIT's Linear survey on January 10 and astronomers are divided about what it is.

2 comment(s):

soubriquet said...

Sorry.
I thought I was cloaked.

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