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The speed of these things just a few millimeters a second, just a few millimeters. so if you can find it, say, ten years in advance before it was going to cross the earths orbit when we are there, then you would just give it a little nudge. the planetary society made the grant to the astronomers in spain who found asteroid 2012 da 14. so its a niche business of finding these fast moving, relatively small objects. still tremendous destructive power. anyway, what we want to do is get these spacecr...

Can i get guidance from the control room? >> yes, it is, lets listen. >> 46 it cannot hit. its orbit is known so accurately we can project through most of the 21st century and right now looking at the possibility, very tiny possibility that it could hit the earth in the year 2080. i expect that will go away and know were safe from this asteroid for a long time. >> how would you use the information that matt was talking about. the information that the radar can give us. >> lances information is h...

The scary news is, the 130,000 metric ton astroid called da-14 is the size of half a football field, and it will be much closer than the moon. in fact, it will thread the needle between earth and the roughly 600 satellites around us. the ones that your cell phone relies on, possibly even smashing one on its way by. but if thats why youre thinking this is a long way from all of us way down here walking the streets, you may want to think again. the last close call turned out to be a direct hit. it...

Its closest approach. >> jim, is there any which these two things are related, what happened in russia and what we just saw? >> well, weve taken a good look at the one that happened over russia about 12 or 13 hours ago and that particular one is coming into a completely different trajectory. da-14 game from south to north. it appears that this one was more north to south and because those orbits are so very different, we believe theyre completely unrelated events. >> megyn: thats just incredible...

Extremely close encounter with earth. the space rocks, what is it going to do? trace gallagher is monitoring it. >> before we think that thats going to handle it, no worries, the only reason that we know about this? pure luck. a dentist in spain spotted the asteroid on his high powered telescope and he told various space agencies around the world and nasa started following it. 2012 da 14. and 27 miles within the earth in about an hour and like seven minutes, like 2:24 eastern time and this here ...

Belonged to christopher dorner. the intense week-long manhunt for him after dorner killed four people. check out this video coming out of russia. a meteor hit the mountains and injured more than 1,000 people who were hit with broken glass and damaged several buildings in six cities. >> by my read of the solar system, this just happens to be a coincidence. you would see many more of these between now and when that big one comes by. >> those are assurances from astro physicist about the asteroid...

It will miss. the scary news is, the 130,000 metric ton astroid called da-14 is the size of half a football field, and it will be much closer than the moon. in fact, it will thread the needle between earth and the roughly 600 satellites around us. the ones that your cell phone relies on, possibly even smashing one on its way by. but if thats why youre think thing is a long way from all of us way down here walking the streets, you may want to think again. the last close call turned out to be a di...

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