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OMG! Asteroid discovered May 28 can take out satellites May 29... historic close approach without warning!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 16791940:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDIzMDA5XzQ4Mzk3QzQ=] [quote:billyrisk 1597223:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDIyMTA2XzJENDI4NzA3] Spaceweather are saying that it will pass at 0.1 LD from earth... Don't know much about this but this is 1/10 of the distance between the moon and the earth... that is really close. It is only 26 meter in diameter but still. [/quote] 20 meter asteroid if not disintegrated and hit directly a city, that entire city will be lost, it has hit power of a few Hiroshima scale nukes. [/quote]
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Discovered just today,
2012 KT42
is a small Apollo class near-Earth asteroid which will fly by us May 29th:
EARTH -- 0.00014 AU / .05 LD
MOON -- 0.00241 AU
Condition Code
or orbit uncertainty estimate is a
7
on a scale of 0-9, with 0 being good, and 9 being
highly uncertain
.
JPL Orbit: [
link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov
]
Fireball watch! [
link to lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
]
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