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Number 61

by Matthew Gipp

Asteroid Attack!

November 5, 2009 at 12:14 AM #

Try not to freak out, but a 10-meter-wide asteroid exploded somewhere high over Indonesia earlier this month with about three times the force of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Here’s a newscast with some amateur footage of the resulting dust trail—which, admittedly, doesn’t look half as hellish as I’ve been led to expect that it should.

Tagged: doomsday, News, Science

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