snarcadegannon:

squirtlesquad-rebellion:

perkachow:

remmoran-kynvahl:

mamasam:

tonyabbot:

scary-monsters-and-davesprite:

lonelyinsomniac:

samsaranmusing:

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Orbital path of asteroid near miss in 2002. Yah, that’s how close we came to nuclear winter and possible total destruction.

A visitor.

It’s like it’s trying so hard to hit us and it just can’t do it

All I can imagine is every astronomer drinking heavily from 2002-2003 like “There it goes–OH FUCK IT’S COMING BACK”

Thanks moon <3

Moon: YEET

The moon threw it away yay moon

the moon was having none  of it

So J002E3 is not an asteroid, but was most likely this:

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the third-stage S-IVB from Apollo 12. NASA wanted to put it in a solar obit but the rocket stage did not have enough propellant to leave the earth-moon system.