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And asteroids, I mention these here each week as well, near earth objects, and potentially hazardous objects, because hazardous objects want to keep a bit better eye on those, they represent a clear threat to Earth. But these here ones, the near earth objects, they're, as I say, each week. They're just mainly because of where they happen to fall within our orbital distance from the sun, and we just keep an eye on those. And most of them aren't too big. Well, there have been some fairly large ones, but not too many of those that you'd be too concerned about, particularly the either the city destroyers or the extinction of that type of asteroid that hit us 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs, which was referred to as the Chiclopod Impactor. But for today, there's two of them, and there's many more of these. I just picked the two that just happened to fall in closest to the time of the net. And we had 2045 ULD, 5.9 lunar distances away. So, a lunar distance, that is the distance the moon is away from our planet. So we use that as a measuring stick. So 5.9 times that, and a nine kilometers a second. So even at nine kilometers a second, it's still clipping along pretty good. And 36 meters in diameter. And the next one too, November 8th here, we had 2021 VQ10, nine lunar distances away, coming in at 15 kilometers a second and 13 meters in diameter.