Did you know that in February 2012: A meteor big enough to have ruined a lot of people's Valentine's Day streaked over the East Coast, creating a rare daytime fireball. Large numbers of people from Connecticut to Philadelphia reported seeing the meteor, which by some accounts was as bright as the sun. Most meteorites are the size of a grain of sand, but experts believe this one was up to 5 feet across. "My crude estimate of the energy of this fireball is about 100 tons of TNT, which means it was capable of producing a crater 125 feet in diameter and about 15 feet deep," a NASA scientist tells MSNBC.
AND, in February 2011
An asteroid all but buzzed Earth on Friday, NASA has revealed. The asteroid, known as 2011 CQ1, passed just 3,405 miles above the Earth’s surface as it hung a sharp turn around the planet. That's the closest near-miss ever recorded, beating a record set by a rock in 2004 by a few hundred miles, notes the New Scientist. The asteroid was just a meter wide, small enough that Earth’s gravity would affect its course, in this case bending its path 60 degrees.
From my understanding this type of thing happens all the time! Who knew! Imagine us walking around on earth, minding our own business, living our busy lives, being unaware of all this happening around us and what could possibly happen...just like that!! It seems to me that our planet is very blessed and we should be giving thanks every single day of our lives for just BEING!
