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Oct 23, 2010

The Asteroids Closest to Killing Us, Visualized

You can call them "near Earth objects" if you want to. I'll stick with "asteroids hellbent on obliterating our planet and all we hold dear." Here's the lineup of the space rocks closest to killing us, and where they are.

As a bonus, designer Zachary Vabolis has taken the liberty of listing the recorded objects that have or will come closest to impact. And these are just the 1,000m diameter or wider crowd. So, hey, it's been real everybody! I just hope when we get got, it's a meteor with a cool name that does it.

53 comments:

  1. But things like this make me sad. I don't want to be hit by a meteor :(

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  2. I hope none of them come :(

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  3. meh, none of those have come any where near as close as we are to the Sun, it's all good!

    If we get clobbered by a space rock, it'll be by some long range bugger that's been way out in the Oort cloud.

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  4. Here's to the fallen at Buenos Aires. The only good bug is a dead bug. :)

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  5. I always feel so small when seeing space charts like this.

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  6. if a meteor thats big enough to destroy earth does hit i wanna be rite there in the impact zone!

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  7. I have always been fascinated by every kind of space-things :)

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  8. I love the part about the cool name, made me lol. I do hope that nothing happens for at least a few more years though, although I guess it won't matter though.

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  9. ahhhh were all gonna die!

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  10. Meteor death would suck donkey nuts

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  11. Oh my god, we're all going to die

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  12. It will happen eventually, but probably well after our lifetime.

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  13. A lot closer than I would have imagined.

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  14. I need to make a great FB game so I can cash in on them.

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  15. well shit :P we almost died a few times over...

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  16. damn.. better enjoy life as much as possible.

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  17. I'm sure they will miss the Earth completely :D . Don't worry people, I got everything under control!!!

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  18. woah, this is a really cool and helpful pictures. thanks for sharing it.

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  19. Haha.. Yeah well, doubt any of those are gonna hit us at all :P Stop being so dramatic guys! ;D

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  20. Oh.
    I was gonna start smoking anyway.

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  21. I DON'T WANT TO DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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  22. I would be quite upset if I were to be hit by a meteor haha.

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  23. Dang I hope they never hit us!

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  24. Wow, how do they even know all this?

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  25. Well obliteration means not having to deal with blog?

    http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

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  26. I wish I could read it. It would probably say something like "not to scale."

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  27. I really didn't need to see this! but great post I must say.

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  28. dude thats crazy. really makes u think.

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  29. Wow, this is news to me.

    Thanks that was a very interesting post.

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  30. A bit hard to read, does anyone know where I can find that in a higher res?

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  31. Thats pretty scary lol where did you find that picture, thats pretty neat :)

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