CNN News:DX110小行星与地球擦身而过 未造成威胁

You're only a day away from Friday.

你离周五只剩下一天了。

You're watching CNN STUDENT NEWS.

欢迎收看CNN学生新闻。

You're ten minutes away from getting up to speedon current events.

你离来做自己的事情还有10分钟的时间。

We are starting in China today.

我们今天首先从中国开始。

Big meeting there.

那里正在召开重大会议。

It's the once a year gathering of the National People's Congress.

它就是一年一次的全国人民代表大会。

It includes thousands of delegates from all over the country.

它包括成千上万来自全国各地的代表们。

China is a communist state.

中国是一个共产主义国家。

The government controls the economy and other parts of society.

政府掌握经济和社会的其他部分。

It won't be voting on any major laws.

它不会就任何重大法律进行投票。

But this meeting is a chance for China to talk about its economic plans.

但这次会议对中国来说是个来谈论其经济计划的机会。

And because it's the world's second largest economy, international economists are watching tosee what China will do.

而且因为它是世界第二大经济体,国际经济学家都在关注这个国家。

Other parts of the international community are watching Ukraine.

国际社会也正在关注乌克兰。

A lot of talking about the crisis there yesterday.

很多人谈到了昨天的危机。

Meetings involving officials from the European Union, Ukraine, Russia, the U.S., but there wasn'ta lot of action.

会议涉及欧盟、乌克兰、俄罗斯、美国的官员,但没有大的举措。

Some U.S. officials are still considering economic sanctions against Russian for its involvementin Ukraine.

一些美国官员仍在考虑经济制裁入侵乌克兰的俄罗斯。

Russia's threatening economic action of its own that could hurt trade in other parts of Europe.

而俄罗斯威胁自己的经济活动可能会影响到欧洲其他地区的贸易。

You didn't see it, you didn't feel it.

你没有看到,你没感觉到。

You might not have known it was there.

你可能不知道它在那里。

But an asteroid zipped by us yesterday.

但是我们昨天同一颗小行星擦身而过。

Well, that's relative.

嗯,这是相对的。

It was close by space standards, it wasn't in terms of miles.

它是空间标准的擦身而过,而不是英里。

But since there is a one in 10,000 chance of this same asteroid coming back near us, on March4, 2046, Chad Myers is going to help us get to know it.

但10000次中有一次，同样的小行星会再次来到我们的地球附近,确切日期是2046年的3月4日,乍得·迈尔斯会帮助我们了解。

Chad.

乍得。

Hey, Carl, an asteroid yesterday flew between the Earth and the Moon, or at least the orbit ofthe Moon.

嘿,卡尔,一颗小行星昨天在地球和月球之间掠过,或者至少在月球的轨道。

It's about a quarter of a million miles between the Earth to the Moon.

地球到月球之间大约25万英里。

And this was slightly inside of it.

这是里面的详细情况。

90 percent, all the way from here to here, or ten percent from here to here.

90%,从这里到这里,或者从这里到这里10%。

So, it was still about 217,000 miles away as it flew on by the Earth.

所以, 当它擦身而过离我们的地球还有217000英里远。

Now, let's think about the size of this.

现在,让我们考虑它的大小。

Because here's the baseball diamond right here.

因为这里有个棒球内场。

Here's actually the tournament field.

实际上这是比赛场地。

If you take a ball of - a big rock and you put it right over the infield, that's how big this asteroidwas.

如果你把一个球—一块大石头,你把它放在内野,就是这颗小行星的尺寸。

Right over the infield of any baseball diamond.

任何棒球内场的内野。

Now, you take that, you fly that in between the Earth and the Moon.

现在,你让它在地球和月球之间飞过。

And you have something going for it.

而你得做些什么。

Now, this is not one of the closer ones probably will have this year.

现在,这不是更近的，今年可能还会有。

But it certainly is 90 percent of the way between the Earth and the Moon, and it's calledDX-110.

但它肯定是90%的地球和月球之间,而它被称为DX-110。

110 because it's actually the hundred and tenth asteroid that they have found so far this year.

叫它110是因为实际上这是今年迄今为止发现的第110颗小行星。