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From here:

The asteroid - which carries the rather dull designation 2007 TU24 - will pass by at a distance of 538,000km (334,000 miles), just outside Moon's orbit.

Well they were going to call it Alan, but hell, there was already an asteroid with that name! Cheap shot, I know, but science reporting in daily newspapers makes me want to break things. At least this one gets seven paragraphs in before mentioning Hollywood....

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Hi Ben, read me more carefully. I am referring to a specific set of biases, experimentally proved to correlate with mental health and happiness. Nowhere do I claim that Taylor & Brown's, or Seligman's, work demonstrates that bias in general correlates to health and happiness !

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