011110WarmUp

Today's date looks downright binary!

Did you know that on November 6th that an asteroid came within 8700 miles of the earth, the astronmical equivalent of a bullet grazing your skin.

What would would we earthlings do? Shoot a missle? Fire a rocket? Hire Bruce Willis to blow it up like in the movie "Armageddon" ?

Here are some strategies:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/defending_earth_010601-1.html

http://www.legendarypharma.com/jdf/impact.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009SoSyR..43..483I

http://library.isunet.edu/Thesaurus.htm?numrec=051914368919610

http://www.shvoong.com/exact-sciences/1698780-code-yellow-mits-radical-asteroid/

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/Asteroid/

What would you do?

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