Turkey top envoy goes to Niger in bid to secure uranium supplies
The trip comes after Niger’s military government withdrew mining rights from Canadian and French companies to develop uranium deposits.
An asteroid the size of a football field is headed for Earth’s neighbourhood this weekend.
This will be the latest in a string of space rock approaches towards our blue planet. The meteorite explosion over Siberia last month sent over a thousand Russians to hospital.
The frequency of these asteroid ‘fly-bys’ is unsettling, especially because they are so difficult to detect.
The coming asteroid is 100 meters wide (330 feet) and is predicted to avoid collision with Earth by just a few cosmic streets – or 960,000 kilometres (600,000 miles).
The asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye, but Italian astrophysicist Gianluca Masi will provide stargazers with a live webcast of the fly-by starting at 2 p.m. EST on March 8th.
