GC3A84K Traditional Cache March 23~Near Miss Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: poolsharkycat @ | Hide Date: 01/03/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 44.374 W104° 35.639 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Near Miss Day When : Always March 23rd Near Miss Day commemorates the day a huge Asteroid nearly missed hitting the earth. On March 23, 1989, an asteroid the size of a mountain, came within 500,000 miles of a collision with Earth. In interstellar terms, it was a near miss. Had it collided with the Earth, it would have left a devastating crater the size of Washington, D.C. It's affect on the planet would have been catastrophic. Since then, there have been other near misses. .....Whew!! Near misses with large, potentially life threatening galactic objects happens on an infrequent basis. It is believed a large asteroid collided with the earth and caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Scientists believe it is only a matter of time before another catastrophic collision with Earth. But, don't worry. The odds are it will not happen for a long, long time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Asteroid Near Misses: 2003 SQ222 - Approximately 10 meters in diameter, came within 54,700 miles of earth on September 27, 2003. Asteroid 2002 EM7 - Approximately, 70 meters long, this rock came within 288,000 miles in March, 2002.
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10 Logs: Found it 9  Write note 1  

Found it 04/11/2019 By team.STEWART817
TFTC

Write note 03/09/2019 By poolsharkycat
you are welcome to put a new log sheet here. Thanks.

Found it 02/27/2019 By cas7796
Easy find. Wet log sheet.

Found it 09/08/2018 By Heltinnen
Found together with thomfre during our four week long road trip through several US states this summer. See his log for more details: https://coord.info/GLXCB3X3 :)

Everything was planned using cachetur.no



Thanks for the cache! :)

Found it 09/08/2018 By thomfre
I've traveled all the way from Norway, together with Heltinnen, to do this awesome road trip. Four weeks, ten states (including the last two we need to have finds in all 50), several National Parks and monuments, several hundred geocaches, a couple events, and a lot of fun! We spent a lot of time planning the entire trip on cachetur.no, so we were well prepared with all the information we needed.

Day 28 of the trip. The last day of the trip. Since we had some hours to spend, we continued on our project of finding the caches around the Denver airport. We found a total of 42 caches today, not a single DNF BigSmile

A very nice day, beautiful weather and almost no traffic. It's a bit sad that this is the last day of the trip, but this was the perfect way to end it.

Thanks for the cache!
#19340 @10:54am

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Found it 08/12/2018 By ColoradoA_Team
Quick find! TFTC!

Found it 06/25/2018 By bushmathster
Very nice hide. TFTC

Found it 06/05/2018 By Scaber
Thank you for placing this cache and helping to keep our recreation going.

Found it 05/26/2018 By Path_Lighter
Yep, it’s in good shape. TFTC

Found it 05/25/2018 By DanndyDan
Great day to get out... TFTH