Contest: ASTEROID!!! Edition – CLOSED!
November 7, 2011
Update: Time is up to enter the contest! No more entries allowed! Thanks for playing everyone! Good luck…now let’s look for that asteroid! (It’s due to pass at 6:28 PM EST – although it’s not supposed to be visible to the naked eye.)
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Okay people, we usually give you a few days to enter our contests, but things are moving too fast this time.
There is an asteroid the size of Ray Romano’s head headed straight for Earth. Okay, we exaggerate: It’s only about a quarter-mile in diameter. And it’s not headed straight for Earth. (Unless it somehow strays off course or something, right? NASA? Mommy?)
Okay, what we need you to do: Tell us how many miles away from Earth you predict the asteroid will pass at its very closest. [NOTE: we will be using NASA's official measurement.] To give you a jumping-off point: NASA says it will pass inside the orbit of the moon—coming within 201,700 miles from Earth. They could be wrong! They could be right! It’s your job to figure that out, and give us your best guess.
You have until 4 PM tomorrow (EST) to enter your guess. (The asteroid will pass around 6:28 PM, says NASA.) Two guesses per person! ENTRIES MUST BE POSTED HERE! FACEBOOK WILL NOT ALLOW CONTEST ENTRIES! Winner gets the brand new Uncle John’s 24-Karat-Gold Bathroom Reader:
Woo hoo!
And one official UJBR t-shirt:
Pretty nice, huh? Here’s the right sleeve:
One two three go!
P.S. We hear a voice…it’s coming from the sky…it’s saying…”Does this moon make my asteroid look fat?”
Oh dear.
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190,502 miles
195,720 miles
1st guess- 487,432 miles
2nd guess- 378,842 miles
1st guess: 100,356 miless
2nd guess: 231,479 miles
CLOSED! CLOSED! CLOSED! CLOSED! CLOSED!
Thanks for playing everybody – we’ll be looking for that asteroid now…
winners?
Off by about 500 miles… Not bad when you’re playing with six figures! But as good as it was, I’m sure someone got closer.. That’s a LOT of entries!
I say runner up prizes of just the book could be in order
Glad we didn’t get hit by an asteroid.
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