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It would probably be a real downer if an asteroid that impacts Earth had a funny name, so Reg readers will be pleased to know that's not going to happen. Asteroid 13681 Monty Python will is making its closest pass as we speak – but at 2.4 Astronomical Units, or more than twice the average Earth-Sun distance, and it's too far …

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  1. MrT

    Probably...

    ... needs a new rewrite of the Galaxy Song then. Does it orbit behind asteroid Green Bush, mostly out of sight? Let's hope it avoids being put on top of other things... etc.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    So really, REALLY close then.,

    Tomorrow's headline.

    MARS IN NEAR COLLISION WITH VENUS!!!

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    1. BongoJoe
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      Re: So really, REALLY close then.,

      As someone who lives in the middle of those two I would be really concerned about that headline.

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      1. willi0000000
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        Re: So really, REALLY close then.,

        BongoJoe, never worry about a near hit . . . the trouble comes when it's a near miss.

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    2. Ivan Headache
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      Re: So really, REALLY close then.,

      Can't happen.

      Everyone knows that "Venus and Mars are alright tonight".

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  3. Chicken Marengo

    Asteroid?

    It's only a model.

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  4. AndrueC Silver badge
    Joke

    An asteroid. An. Asteroid.

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    1. Alistair
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      @AndrueC

      That would be MISS An. Asteroid to you sir.

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      1. Anomalous Cowturd
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        Re: @Alistair

        Elk, Shirley?

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  5. Zog_but_not_the_first
    Devil

    Next time

    So, Blofeld's thrusters on the dark side of the asteroid failed to fire.

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    1. MrT
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      It's okay...

      ...it's not coming anywhere near a collision with Earth. Emergency plan 'Arthur's Shield' is not needed at this time and we can stand down the Delta IV Heavy carrying the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. It even had to be hurriedly renamed a Delta III Heavy, in accordance with the modern translations of the Book of Armaments...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    5.17 years?

    Does that mean its traveling faster than a swallow? Does it make a difference if that swallow is a European swallow or an African swallow?

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    1. Kernel
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      Re: 5.17 years?

      No, it's more to do with how many coconuts it's got on board.

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      1. Chris G
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        Re: 5.17 years?

        "No, it's more to do with how many coconuts it's got on board."

        Ridiculous! there are no coconuts in Spaaaaace, the swallows have carried them all off!

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      2. Tom 35
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        Re: 5.17 years?

        But what is it's quest?

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  7. harmjschoonhoven

    Where

    is the Spanish Inquisition?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Where

      Where you do not expect them

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