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Blogs > OnDaFence > Bret's Blogisphere

OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
3/22/2019 7:52 pm

Last Read:
3/29/2019 8:04 pm
Near Miss Day !


Noooo Not kind of Near Miss!



Near Miss Day commemorates the time when the 4581 Asclepius asteroid had a close encounter with hitting earth, passing by about 425,000 miles away. This may seem like a long distance, but in space distance, it is very close and missed striking the earth by about 6 hours.



It was closest to earth between March 22 and 23, 1989, but was not discovered until March 31, by astronomers Henry E. Holt and Norman G. Thomas the Palomar Observatory in California.



The asteroid, named after the Greek god of medicine, is about 300 meters wide and would have released energy comparable to a 600 megaton bomb—larger than any nuclear bomb ever created—if it would have hit the earth. It would have left a crater many miles in diameter, and would have been capable of obliterating a large city.



The probability asteroids and meteorites will impact earth is measured by the Torino Scale and the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. Similar near misses happen every couple years .

OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 7:55 pm

 Just missed by 6 hours.................


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 7:56 pm

 I could have ben wiped out before my 2nd B-day!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 7:57 pm

 Today was almost a near miss for my brain I think too.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 7:58 pm

 Is it really the weekend?


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
3/22/2019 8:17 pm

 Yes, the weekend is here, my friend, and there are no scheduled asteroid impacts of any significance. Therefore, you can sleep-in tomorrow morning without fear. That is unless JD insists on his usual early breakfast. Ahh, such is the life of farmers.

How's the flood situation? Has the water receded yet, allowing you to use the local roads?


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 8:57 pm
    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Yes, the weekend is here, my friend, and there are no scheduled asteroid impacts of any significance. Therefore, you can sleep-in tomorrow morning without fear. That is unless JD insists on his usual early breakfast. Ahh, such is the life of farmers.

    How's the flood situation? Has the water receded yet, allowing you to use the local roads?
Oh he'll get his breakfast first thing alright. Our road was damaged so as to be one lane by the floodwaters but much of the water has receded to within a bank full torrent of a river. The only remaining snow to melt are the high stacked piles and the shaded areas.


strtsexboy_1 64M
764 posts
3/22/2019 10:07 pm

 will earth ? It's ok I speak typos LOL


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/22/2019 11:18 pm

 ok corrected STR... I don't type as fast as my mind works and I missed it in the proof reads.


Julie_Tgirl 74T
3021 posts
3/22/2019 11:59 pm

 I type faster and better with nails on.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/23/2019 8:35 am
    Quoting Julie_Tgirl:
    I type faster and better with nails on.
If I could just keep from breaking my nails would help a bunch.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/23/2019 8:36 am
    Quoting  :
Remember the dinosaurs??? That's what happens when they get a cigar!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/29/2019 8:02 pm
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Oh Dear! I am so glad you came back looking!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/29/2019 8:04 pm
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If I let my nails go too long I start to scribble!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/29/2019 8:04 pm
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Dear Gawd I hope so..............




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