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2013-11-09T05:04:34+00:00 2013-11-11T08:38:40+00:00 Maybe more
meteors on the horizon webmaster  Scientists are telling us
there is a lot bigger chance of being hit by a meteor than they
thought. Until lately, they had estimated that about 3 million
space rocks bigger than Buicks were whizzing around the
neighborhood of Earth, with some chance of a few of them
entering Earth’s atmosphere.  Now, they are telling a different
story, after Earth actually was hit by a meteor the size of
three Buicks last February, in Russia. They are saying 20
million such dangerous rocks are stalking the region of Earth’s
orbit.  The thing that bothers the scientists is that they
didn’t see the one that hit Russia coming. They were tracking
another rock — one they were sure wouldn’t hit Earth, and you
can imagine their surprise wh