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2012 had some people worried that the world would end on December 21, and I have to admit I was a wee bit relieved when nothing happened. Then 2013 came rushing in with meteorite explosions, awfully close asteroid flybys and the appearance of not one, but two comets! Is it just me, or does this sound like the prelude of a Deep Impact-ish movie? I know that our solar system is home to numerous rogue rocky and icy objects, and that keeping track of all of them is probably impossible, but I never remember hearing about so many potentially cataclysmic space objects in all of my life! Two comets in the same year? Really? Could we be experiencing an omen of sorts? Harbingers or not, folks have a variety of opinions on the subject. Here is a sample of what some of London's Telegraph subscribers think of all the recent asteroid activity:
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