Day: October 14, 2011

President Obama will send 100 American soldiers to Central Africa.

Obama said today in a letter to House and Senate leaders:

‘I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.
I believe that deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.’

Is it a war? The soldiers are there not for battle, the White House said.. The president said the troops will not engage Lord’s Resistance Army forces “unless necessary for self-de fense.”

image released of the newly discovered Asteroid

Amateur astronomors found something that professionals did not: An asteroid about 18 million miles away from the planet Earth.

European scientists from the Space Situational Awareness program released images this week of the asteroid..

Ironically, a telescope from the earthquake and volcano-rattled Canary Islands picked up the image of the asteroid–which is considered to be close enough to be a threat to the planet.

The asteroid is called SF108.. And at this point there are no specifics on the size of the object.

There is also no imminent danger to Earth from the asteroid. But it is, like many others still not seen with manmade telescopes, a danger for a future time.