CNN News:DX110小行星與地球擦身而過 未造成威脅

You're only a day away from Friday.

你離周五只剩下一天了。

You're watching CNN STUDENT NEWS.

歡迎收看CNN學(xué)生新聞。

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

你離來做自己的事情還有10分鐘的時(shí)間。

We are starting in China today.

我們今天首先從中國開始。

Big meeting there.

那里正在召開重大會(huì)議。

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

它就是一年一次的全國人民代表大會(huì)。

It includes thousands of delegates from all over the country.

它包括成千上萬來自全國各地的代表們。

China is a communist state.

中國是一個(gè)共產(chǎn)主義國家。

The government controls the economy and other parts of society.

政府掌握經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會(huì)的其他部分。

It won't be voting on any major laws.

它不會(huì)就任何重大法律進(jìn)行投票。

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

但這次會(huì)議對中國來說是個(gè)來談?wù)撈浣?jīng)濟(jì)計(jì)劃的機(jī)會(huì)。

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

而且因?yàn)樗鞘澜绲诙蠼?jīng)濟(jì)體,國際經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家都在關(guān)注這個(gè)國家。

Other parts of the international community are watching Ukraine.

國際社會(huì)也正在關(guān)注烏克蘭。

A lot of talking about the crisis there yesterday.

很多人談到了昨天的危機(jī)。

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

會(huì)議涉及歐盟、烏克蘭、俄羅斯、美國的官員,但沒有大的舉措。

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

一些美國官員仍在考慮經(jīng)濟(jì)制裁入侵烏克蘭的俄羅斯。

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

而俄羅斯威脅自己的經(jīng)濟(jì)活動(dòng)可能會(huì)影響到歐洲其他地區(qū)的貿(mào)易。

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

你沒有看到,你沒感覺到。

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.

但是我們昨天同一顆小行星擦身而過。

Well, that's relative.

嗯,這是相對的。

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

它是空間標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的擦身而過,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，同樣的小行星會(huì)再次來到我們的地球附近,確切日期是2046年的3月4日,乍得·邁爾斯會(huì)幫助我們了解。

Chad.

乍得。

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

嘿,卡爾,一顆小行星昨天在地球和月球之間掠過,或者至少在月球的軌道。

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

地球到月球之間大約25萬英里。

And this was slightly inside of it.

這是里面的詳細(xì)情況。

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

90%,從這里到這里,或者從這里到這里10%。

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

所以, 當(dāng)它擦身而過離我們的地球還有217000英里遠(yuǎn)。

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

現(xiàn)在,讓我們考慮它的大小。

Because here's the baseball diamond right here.

因?yàn)檫@里有個(gè)棒球內(nèi)場。

Here's actually the tournament field.

實(shí)際上這是比賽場地。

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

如果你把一個(gè)球—一塊大石頭,你把它放在內(nèi)野,就是這顆小行星的尺寸。

Right over the infield of any baseball diamond.

任何棒球內(nèi)場的內(nèi)野。

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

現(xiàn)在,你讓它在地球和月球之間飛過。

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.

現(xiàn)在,這不是更近的，今年可能還會(huì)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%的地球和月球之間,而它被稱為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?yàn)閷?shí)際上這是今年迄今為止發(fā)現(xiàn)的第110顆小行星。