We just survived a near miss with an asteroid.

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the first i heard about this was 7pm GMT when i got home from work and that was only due to yahoo being my home page, news didnt meantion it when i was in ear shot of the radio and no one had talked about it so im guessing news didnt 'break' until after i had entered my radio less fridge to finish off the delveries

i saw something that said another near miss is due in 2012 or there abouts
even if it had hit depending on the size and location there would be some/alot of damage to the surrounding area, i mean tungungsta(sp) was leveled 100 years ago
it also said it was less than the distance between the earth and the moon, not that they said it passed inbetween them, but if it had hit the moon instead of the earth it would be just as damaging as the moons gravitational pull or the lack there off could be far reaching iir its not just the tides that are affected (aside from the obvious were 80% water bit that gets pulled up here and there)

i said 'break' in quotes as the skys are observed all the time and this might have been known about for some time, and if world governments had issued a statement we might have had mass hysteria over those two days, i dont feel relieved that it missed , its passing and subsequent missing went unnoticed by myself and would have done for much longer if it wasnt the top webstory and also posted about here
in other words ignorance is bliss