Scientist stunned by the asteroid of the city who just lost the earth Scientist stunned by the asteroid of the city who just lost the earth. People are the only sort of realizing what happened pretty much after it’s already flung past us. Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer’s phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters who wanted to know more about a big asteroid that had just crossed the Earth and could not understand “why everyone was alarmed.” “I thought everyone was worried about something that we thought was going to happen,” said Duffy, senior scientist at the Royal Institution of Australia, Washington Post. Forecasts had predicted that a pair of asteroids would be relatively close to Earth this week. Then he looked for the details of the space rock song called Asteroid 2019 OK He appeared “out of nowhere,” Michael Brown, a Melbourne-based observation astronomer, told the Washington Post. Read also: A ex ohio judge was dragged out of co...