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Canadian astronomers seeking potentially dangerous space rocks in nearby 'swarm'
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Now a Canadian research team is calling for closer examination of this region, called the Taurid meteor swarm, as it prepares for its closest pass in more than 40 years during an upcoming meteor shower in June.
Few of the meteors we see in the night sky reach the ground, instead burning up in our atmosphere.
But that isn't always true for some of the larger rocks, like the 20-metre-wide object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, injuring more than 1,000 people after an accompanying air burst caused windows to explode...
Earth will approach within 30,000,000 km of the centre of the Taurid swarm this summer, the closest such encounter since 1975. The calculations also show that this will be the best viewing time of the Taurid swarm until the early 2030s. [ link to ca.news.yahoo.com (secure)]
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