2005 YU55 Is In The Neighborhood

"The 2005 YU44, an asteroid roughly as wide as the length of an aircraft carrier, is due to cross Earth's path today. It's the closest approach of such an object in a generation."

This sounds like a Woody Allen joke, right?

It's not.

It's from the front page of today's Wall Street Journal in an article called "Today's Close Encounter." The asteroid is about 1,300 feet wide. That's big. The newspaper shows a picture of the asteroid in comparison with the U.S. Nimitz which is 1,092 feet long. That means it's big enough to host a presidential visit.

Maybe this is the 2d coming. Maybe a 3d asteroid will hit on 12/21/12. The 3d coming. Anyone thought of that? Oh hay, I never realized that those numbers, the 2012 date spell out like that, with the 1-2 numeric sequence. This month we have 11/1/11 and 11/11/11.

This thing, the asteroid, will swing by earth so close that it will be inside the Moon's orbit from 201,700 miles away. Amazing how it manages to avoid the Moon's orbit.

In the article, there's a graph of a bunch of Asteroids of varying sizes shown, they're all lined up in rows, big to small. Looks like an abacus. It reminds me of the astronomy book that my brother had when we were kids. We couldn't read so we looked at the illustration of the Moon and the Earth being spun off from the Sun. And my Virgo brother said, "That's a picture of the Sun shitting out the Earth and the Moon." Then I said, "Ha Ha, a slow motion picture of pooping."

I looked up the astrology last week to see what kind of b.s. I could bake up regarding why such a big asteroid is cruising by earth today. There was something but I don't remember what it was.