Two asteroids to pass close to Earth on Wednesday

[Oberon]

Now there's a thought!

[Dowly]

Soooo, Yubba, if it would fall on Iran's nuclear plant, you think it would be some freak, but quite welcome, accident or something else?


(whaaaat?)

[Bilge_Rat]

Don't forget asteroids impact the earth every day, but most are too small and burn up in the atmosphere, creating the "shooting stars" you see at night.

[Gerald]

I recently read that it passes around 50 million items past the Earth, every day....

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Now there's a thought!

Originally Posted by Dowly

Soooo, Yubba, if it would fall on Iran's nuclear plant, you think it would be some freak, but quite welcome, accident or something else?


(whaaaat?)

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Don't forget asteroids impact the earth every day, but most are too small and burn up in the atmosphere, creating the "shooting stars" you see at night.

And snowballs:

Snowballs Entering The Earth's Atmosphere?
News story originally written on June 20, 1997

The Polar spacecraft has just found snowballs in space. We usually think of snowballs being in our backyard during wintertime, but these snowballs are flying into the Earth's atmosphere.

These snowballs can be as large as a small house! Can you imagine trying to throw a snowball that big? They are not dangerous to humans on Earth, because the snowballs break apart while they are still very far away from us. These snowballs are entering the atmosphere at a rate of 5-30 snowballs per minute, or thousands of snowballs in a given day. That's more snowballs than you could make even during a long winter day!

http://www.open2.net/sciencetechnolo...roduction.html