CraptoutatisOk, to lighten things up…dont you think this asteroid looks like poop? This is actually pretty fascinating This poop is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers). On Wednesday, it will zoom by our planet within a million miles, or about four times the distance to the Moon. That’s close by cosmic standards for an object that could cause global devastation. Toutatis hasn’t been so near since the year 1353 and won’t be that close again until 2562, NASA scientists have calculated. No other asteroid so large is known to have come so close in the past, though accurate tracking of space rocks is a fairly recent, high-tech skill that still leaves wide margins of error for many objects. Wow, I wonder if anyone back in 1353 looked up at the sky and said “Hey look, flyin crap!”.


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4 responses to “Giant asteroid approaching Earth looks like poop”

  1. Duncan Avatar

    Earth’s epitaph:

    Death by Space Poop.
    Beginning of time – End of time.
    R.I.P.

  2. JON Avatar
    JON

    hahahahah! you said space poop!!!!!!!! hahahahh

  3. Richard Avatar

    Looks like it would have taken some effort to nip that one off!

    Maybe it’s the bullshit spat out by the Bush Admin that’s rounded the sun and on its way back to Washington…

  4. Josh Wruck Avatar
    Josh Wruck

    Poop!