Suppose You Were Walking Down The Street...

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Suppose you were just walking down the street when you stumbled across something. What is it? An asteroid. AN ASTEROID!!!! Just sitting there??? OMG

Holy Mackerel. I could more easily imagine stumbling across The Holy Grail, or a winged Pegasus as I could an asteroid sitting there. No smoke, no crater. Just an asteroid sitting there.

I can't tell you how many science fiction stories I've read about astronauts exploring the asteroids. Now someone finds one just sitting there.

I read about it on APOD. The picture and the text from the story are below.



Almahata Sitta 15
Credit & Copyright: Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)

Read the story here about how some students found it in just two hours.