The news today has us thinking about bigger things….bigger than we can imagine at times…

The good news for now, is that Near Earth Asteroids don’t seem to be as much of a threat as they were yesterday, thanks to research from the Japanese Space Agency, and their Hayabusa probe. Even though the probe mission had problems, we learned some useful insight into the actual makings of a near 700 foot wide asteroid (it’s not as solid as we thought).

“The results were very interesting and shocking,” said Akira Fujiwara, a scientist on the Hayabusa team from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA. “To mitigate asteroid threats, it will be very useful in the future.” Fujiwara and his colleagues published their findings in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.