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Re:An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin by Dunedan on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:11PM (#22639866)
Please stop spreading FUD. That's not even close to a close pass. From the linked article:

> At its closest approach, which will happen at about 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT), asteroid 1998 OR2 will be 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km) from Earth. That's more than 16 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.

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Re:An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin by dmitripopov on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:19PM (#22639955)
At a space scale it's a close pass.
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Re:An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin by magduf on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:16PM (#22639917)
To be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass".

You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling it a close pass.

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Re:An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin by marcosdumay on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:45PM (#22640329)
A "close pass" here means "it may even be visible from Earth in a normal observatory sized telescope!"
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Re:An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin by dumbfoundded on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:58PM (#22640471)
Close pass isn't some FUD. It's a scientific definition. It's even defined in the article I linked.
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