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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 1528602:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDMwNDEyX0EyOTY1MThG] [quote:TOMMY B:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDI5Njc3X0M3NEFCMEQy] [quote:TOMMY B:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDI3OTA3XzYzODgxNjFC] [quote:TheTruthWorker:MV8xODgxOTY1XzMxNDI1OTM2Xzk1QUJCREM1] No main stream news yet just this: [b]Another tiny rock will pass Earth tomorrow[/b] "it’s probably less than 10 meters across — about the size of a school bus or more likely a minivan. And it’ll be a close shave: though the orbit is still not nailed down, the nominal miss distance is about 14,500 kilometers... bear in mind, it was only discovered last night, so the current orbit is preliminary... And even if newer observations show it hitting us, this rock is way too small to do any damage. At that size, it’ll break up in the atmosphere and make a spectacular light show, but not much else. This has happened countless times with asteroids this size, like the Peekskill meteor in 1992, or the more recent fireball over California last April..." http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/05/28/another-tiny-rock-will-pass-earth-tomorrow/ [/quote] Serious question, if a white dwarf star the size of a teaspoon can weigh 5.5 tons,est., how do we know that this doesn't weigh millions or trillions of lbs.? Does size matter at all, if we don't know the composition? Thanks.:peace: [/quote] Not specifically this asteriod, but one out there someplace? How do we know that the Tunguska impact wasn't caused by something the size of a marble? If a white dwarf explodes, wouldn't it send out very heavy chunks of material/debris? [/quote] This is an interesting idea/question. [/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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