Asteroid 310442 (2000 CH59), classified as a near-earth object (NEO) and discovered in 2000, will pass by us on December 26 at a distance of 4.5 million miles, which scientists consider safe. It’s close because any celestial object less than 30 million miles from earth is an NEO. The comet is hurtling at 27,500 miles an hour. That’s 18 times the top speed of an F-16 fighter jet. It is almost equal to the Shanghai Tower in size, the world’s second tallest building.
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96,00,000 Mallikarjuna, a farmer in Chitradurga, Karnataka, earned Rs 96 lakh after selling 20 truckloads of onions. Prices of onions have increased 400 per cent since March and he reaped the windfall from a bumper harvest.
“Speaking in Sanskrit every day boosts the nervous system and keeps diabetes and cholesterol at bay.”
Ganesh Singh
BJP MP for Satna, Madhya Pradesh
(He said this in Parliament and cited a “research by a USA-based academic institution”. Also, he said NASA claims that computer programming will be flawless in Sanskrit.)
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