Is a skull-shaped asteroid headed for Earth this Halloween?
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🗓️ 2 October 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Tuesday, October 2, 2018. |
| 0:07.8 | Asteroid 2015 TB-145 passed our planet three years ago. It missed us by just 300,000 miles and was visible to those with good telescopes. |
| 0:17.3 | Earily, it visited us on Halloween and looked very much like a skull. This time around, however, |
| 0:23.3 | the asteroid will not be in a Halloween mood. It will be 25 million miles away and will appear |
| 0:28.5 | as a dot of light according to NASA. Its shape may have changed due to collisions with other |
| 0:33.3 | celestial objects, and it won't be at its closest to us until November 11th, well after Halloween. |
| 0:39.9 | While the asteroid won't be celebrating Halloween, my neighbors will. One already has |
| 0:44.5 | ghosts hanging from their trees and a giant inflatable dragon breathing fire at those who |
| 0:49.5 | pass by. If history holds, there will soon be dozens of houses in our area displaying a variety of goblins, ghosts, and ghouls. |
| 0:57.5 | It's apparently not too early for Thanksgiving either. A home in our neighborhood is displaying the word thankful for passers by to sea. |
| 1:05.1 | Personally, I prefer their decoration to the lawn dragon. |
| 1:09.0 | As the November elections draw closer, we're seeing more and more homes |
| 1:12.2 | with yard signs supporting one or the other of our senatorial candidates. Campaign signs for state |
| 1:17.6 | offices are proliferating as well. While our founders may not have imagined lawn dragons, |
| 1:22.9 | this kind of opinionated diversity is just what they intended. In a monarchy such as the English system |
| 1:29.3 | our founders rejected, the king retains authority because his subjects fear as power and hope he'll |
| 1:34.7 | serve their interests. Governments in China, North Korea, Cuba, and Russia stay in power |
| 1:39.5 | through the same means. It's different in a republic like America, a system built on consensual self-interest. |
| 1:46.2 | We elect those leaders we believe will best meet our needs. We support our country, and we trust |
| 1:51.6 | that our country will support us. How's that working for us these days? I was walking in our |
| 1:57.1 | neighborhood yesterday and came upon a brick mailbox that appeared to be intact from the |
| 2:01.4 | front but was falling apart in the back. Bricks were lying on the lawn, victims of decaying mortar. |
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