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Put away the teloscopes and ear-plugs (you didn't need the plugs anyway...): it seems that asteroid 2007 WD5 will not be making its final (and I do mean final) approach towards the Red Planet after all.
Too bad. That would've been one hell of a show, indeed. Given Mars' proximity to Earth this deep impact would've rivaled Shoemaker-Levy in terms of bang for our telescopic buck.
But now, eh. The show is a no-show, and that's too bad. But this whole thing does remind us of the ultimate fragility of any planetary ecosystem (yeah: Mars doesn't have an 'ecosystem' to speak of, but go along with me, here). Hell, we've seen our share of near-misses over the year, and it could very well be that the next time we start talking about a probable impact event in a planetary body, the body in question will be blue, and covered in moss.
Somebody better get on to NASA about building that EPDN thing, pronto.
(...does Epdin even work on asteroids?... hmmm: why not?)
