Averting the asteroid threat

IT COULD easily be the plot for a Hollywood disaster movie. Last February, a young dental surgeon called Jaime Nomen was sailing along the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Cheap Authentic Jerseys Wholesale checking images on his laptop from an observatory 600 kilometres away. Suddenly he spotted a speck cheap football jerseys wholesale of light speeding through the constellation Botes. Nomen knew exactly what it was.

He alerted Jerseys Wholesale From China Free Shipping the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which collects information about asteroids Green Bay Packers hats and comets. Telescopes around the world swung into action, checking the new asteroid's orbit. The Cheap Green Bay Packers Jerseys result was sensational: asteroid 2012 DA14 was on nearcollision course with the Earth.

On Discount Green Bay Packers jerseys 15 February 2013, the errant rock will skim Earth just 25,000 kilometres above our heads that's fitflops in canada 500 times nearer than the muchpublicised asteroid Apophis came earlier this month, and even closer than fitflops outlet Apophis will get on its muchhyped return in 2029. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly .