Lol at people thinking this thing is traveling at 10,000km per hour!! Haha!
Quoting: UK Coward 33964759 It's current speed is about 7.8 kilometers/second (28,000 km/h)
relative to Earth.
Earth's average orbital speed is 107,200 km/h.
Since this thing orbits the Sun at about the same average distance as Earth does its average orbital speed is about the same.
It is because it is crossing our orbit that the relative speed is much greater than zero.
I wonder how much a large cme from the sun would effect the trajectory of da14 if at all?
Quoting: UK Coward 33964759 Why wonder if you can calculate.
We know how much matter there typically is in a CME.
We also know how fast it moves.
So an OOM calculation of the amount of kinetic energy it could transfer to this rock should be a nice exercise in applied physics.
Enjoy!
