2012TV Asteroid 0.7 LD Oct 7

It is not on the RSOE EDIS website now, nor has it been on there.

Hmm.

My bad. Article said extraterrestrial. I was being lazy. What is data arc span? I found a generalized definition but what is it? I know I ask a lot of questions but I promise I will never forget the answers. So what does data arc span mean? 129 observations? That's kind of buggy too. I mean, if I look at a car driving crooked off, say, 1000 miles, I could possibly determine where it's going to end up. Especially if I checked 129 times. Wonder what factors made Mr. / Mrs. Scientist change his/her mind. If it just showed up, then where'd it come from? What keeps knocking stuff out of the asteroid belt if that's where these all of a dissension are coming from.

So does it say anywhere at what time it will reach it's closes point to earth? And where it will be visible from?

Why exactly is that number concerning? There are NEO's found less than a month ago at 30 times the closest approach that have over 500.

Seriously, you guys freak out over the most half analyzed stuff...

Do you have a link to the NEO's you're talking about? Closer than 0.7? I'd like to see them, please. Thank you in advance! :)

so 41 meters is about 45 yards. So close to half a football field in size. I think this is pretty big when you compare it to the size of a bus, like the one that went by a few months ago that they told us about a day or two before it flew by.

So far though, there's nothing in the msm news.

30 times as in 30 times ~farther~. As in why would they be watching them with greater abundance than the stuff within lunar orbit.

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

This is a pretty half decent thread OP!

Good job.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it says first observed the 5th? Half a football field was hiding until the 5th? And they looked at it 129 times in 24 hours give or take and are kinda hoping it's 158,000 to 167,000 miles away? It just showed up on Space Weather today. Maybe, lol, msm doesn't know or doesn't care? I'm laughing because it hurts giving msm the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, I'd really like to know where to look.

Openly, you were first to start explaining! Thank you!

I don't know about the validity of this site but....OH OH


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Re: 2012TV Asteroid 0.7 LD Oct 7
Correct me if I'm wrong but it says first observed the 5th? Half a football field was hiding until the 5th? And they looked at it 129 times in 24 hours give or take and are kinda hoping it's 158,000 to 167,000 miles away? It just showed up on Space Weather today. Maybe, lol, msm doesn't know or doesn't care? I'm laughing because it hurts giving msm the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, I'd really like to know where to look.

I know, some of you big brain guys (or girls) out there please try to figure out "possible" impact zone for it.

Pinned for more answers!

Thank you again, Openly! Seriously appreciate every answer and thought!

I justed checked with Spttin Cesium on Nin's solar thread and it is possible that the magnetotail of the magnetosphere could maybe perturb an asteroid but there are some big 'ifs' there.

Hey dude: Off topic, but I noticed you dont have ay karma yet.


*Gives some green*

It didn't sound to me like anybody was "freakin out", just having on on-line discussion about an interesting topic of NEOs just showing up out of the blue, when some objects are found and identified YEARS ahead of time so far out as to be ridiculus, so its that paradox thats intriquing.

Fairly new to GLP. so not sure how it all works. I just really enjoy the topics of discussion on here. But hey, Thanks!

Nothing to worry about. Unless it hits the MOON which is much more plobable do to its trajectory angle to the elypic.

That is why we count on people who know about these things to educate us.. so we won't be quite so freaked when we see something similar in the future.

If you know, could you educate us, in plain english please.
space rocks 101. :)

Great catch OP..to bad your an AC I would have given some green karma if I could.

Thank you, Isis. I'm not freaking out. I just want to know. Nosy, inquisitive, take your pick, but I saw the aurora for the first time this year, first meteor shower and adding an asteroid to that collection of firsts in one year would be amazing!

Unless it hits somewhere like a fault connected to something major. Or a town, etc. Otherwise, I'd truly love to glimpse it.

So if our magnetosphere being amped like, say, from a CME would affect the trajectory, then what?

Under people's user names. you see a green thumbs up, thats good/positive karma, and you can give it for any reason, and the red thumb down is negative/bad/shit karma; you give that when someone pisses you off, makes a dumb thread, etc. etc. :)

One way or the other we will eventually be struck by something big and nasty enough to fuck things up royally.
An excellent read is 'Impact- The threat of comets & asteroids' by Gerrit L. Verschuur (Oxford University Press).
We've been buttfucked before and we'll be buttfucked again...tick tock :-)

Well welcome to GLP... Here's hoping you enjoy the site as much as many of us do... I for one, have learned a lot about a wide variety of subjects...

There are always some shitty threads and posters, but you just have to exit those and go on to the next one.

Threads like this are great, OP (the person who started this thread) has a sharp eye and shared what she discovered. Other GLPrs who have more knowlege on the subject then provide very informative info.. and we learn as we go.

I do my best to see what is posted at least once a day on GLP..then there are days like today. I've spent hours catching up on the Louisiana sinkhole situation.

GLP'rs are the best!

I'm not sure what, but something is disturbing our magnetosphere the past hour or so and so I asked on Nin's thread if an incoming asteroid could casue it? I also didn't know if the moon was inside or outside our magnetosphere and it turns out its outside for the most part except when it is behind the earth in the magnetotail. I'm not sure where the moon is now in relation to the magnetotail.

Got it. Thank you. And we can do this as many times as we want?