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CBS Detroit – There is a video on Youtube that says that we are about to have another “very close encounter” with an asteroid. What the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory calls “Near Earth Objects” or NEO. Now keep in mind that asteroids have approached or hit our planet for millions …

We know that a monstrous asteroid impact killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide space rock crashed into Earth just off the coast of present-day Yucatan, destroying a 150-kilometer-wide crater and unleashing a chain of catastrophic weather events that destroyed …