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An asteroid is set to fly past our planet on March 7, passing within 11,000 miles. Yes, that's right, 11,000 measly miles. .By way of comparison, the moon is 250,000 miles away.

According to scientists, there is no danger that we will be hit by the space rock. However it will fly underneath some communications satellites. The 100 foot wide space rock has been christened Asteroid 2013 TX68.

Space watchers may remember the Chelyabinsk meteor that broke up over Russia three years ago. That meteor was 65 feet wide but fortunately broke up in the atmosphere before it could hit Earth. If an asteroid the same size as 2013 TX68 entered our atmosphere, scientists believe it would cause an air burst twice as strong.

Seems like a lot of close calls lately.

Assistant Professor Melissa Click, captured on video calling for “some muscle” to remove reporters from a campus protest site, was fired Wednesday by the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

“The board respects Dr. Click’s right to express her views and does not base this decision on her support for students engaged in protest or their views,” Henrickson said in the prepared statement. “However, Dr. Click was not entitled to interfere with the rights of others, to confront members of law enforcement or to encourage potential physical intimidation against a student.”

The statement from Henrickson cited Click’s behavior at the Homecoming parade, when she cursed at a police officer who was moving protesters out of the street, and on Nov. 9 at Concerned Student 1950’s protest site on the Carnahan Quadrangle. Her actions at the protest site, Henrickson said, “when she interfered with members of the media and students who were exercising their rights in a public space and called for intimidation against one of our students, we believe demands serious action.”

The faster she and her ilk are removed from any position of power and influence, especially over young heads full of mush, the better.