Near Miss Day

One would think that a near miss is a hit, but that is not how NASA defines it. The term is actually two separate words that have an interesting juxtaposition. It would more appropriately called: “National day of objects that passed near earth, but missed.” NASA tracks these items (some of them more than 100 years away), to see how close they are going to come to hitting Earth. The earth gets bombarded by solar garbage all the time. What do you think shooting stars are? The objects they track are objects that could potentially destroy the planet. I guess this means we can never celebrate National Hit Day. Before you start to panic, despite the movies, the closest any of the large scale objects has gotten was in 1922. It passed within 1.4 billion miles, approx. 38 times the distance between the earth and the moon. The next time something is going to get that close will be in the year 2181.

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