We confess we were a little bit freaked when we found out earlier this week that an asteroid the size of a "double decker bus" was aiming toward Planet Earth on Tuesday:
• Asteroid to skim past EarthFortunately, the scientists were proven right; and this asteroid missed us by a whisker. Now that it's Saturday, we'll presume we earthlings dodged a bullet on this.
Being the curious type though, we googled, to find out how vulnerable we may be to future meteor collisions and found this, an intriguing video piece which chronicles meteorite discoveries from 1980 to date:
• Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010Fascinating, no?
Headgear, anyone?
