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Will both shuttles manage to land on the asteroid through a shower of (3-D, surround-sound) debris?
So, for example, at least 10% of the living biomass on earth consists of bacteria living deep in the oceans' sediments: it would take more than an asteroid impact to disturb them.
In 1803 the Swedish chemist Berzelius discovered another earth and named it cerium , for the asteroid (minor planet) Ceres.
The NYT has a big illustrated front-page piece on the recent discovery that an asteroid, called "1997 XF 11," is likely to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth (that's eight times closer than the moon) on October 26, 2028.
And surely, "A Sense of Closure" will be the headline above the news analysis in the New York Times the morning before the asteroid hits.