Asteroid approach shrank to 14,000 miles this a.m. + NASA says "Astrometry is URGENTLY Needed"

they are dumb

Irrelevant, apples and oranges to the current situation.

No need to worry, everything is fine. Just continue to go about your daily business as usual

Where does it now say "14,000" miles? The link you provided says 28,000 kilometers which is still 17,000 miles.

The close approach distance is still 17,000 miles. CNN fucked it up. CNN is not NASA.

They don't. OP thinks CNN is an authoritative source on the close approach distance.

Yep just like they did for the Dinosaurs

Interesting time for this movie to come out......

Art imitates life...

Ok, my question is: which distance is the critical one when Earth can pull in this sweetie? lol
1o ooo Miles? 5ooo Miles?

Please answer.

It might not hit this year, but doesn't this throw all future calculations out the window?

Was enjoying this thread untill dr.astro showed up. I still think theres a chance this thing causes some disturbances at least.

0 miles (actually just a few dozen above that it would probably explode in the atmosphere). Earth's gravity is already accounted for. You're welcome.

Good morning, Professor! Why is it that NASA persists in broadcasting "Astrometry URGENTLY Needed" on their "Latest Update 8 February 2013" at [link to echo.jpl.nasa.gov]
IF in fact all the astrometry we earthlings will ever need has just been presented by you (and AstroDoggie; Hey, Bud!") ???? Is that your video under a different Nom de Plume?? Merci bien, Monsieur le Professeur

Yes, I tend to have that effect on false space doom.

Pop quiz, when was the latest astrometry from that I used in the video? Close approaches are always an important time to collect astrometry.

Hahahah.. I love it..

Funny how they keep revising that number daily.

I read that this comet can be the type that is made of a certain substance that has such an effect that it is sucked in my earth and becomes a sun guided missle. Something like that.

You're right. I just checked the CNN video link and that was uploaded 1/3/13; however, the astrometry video just posted by the esteemed Dr. Astro clearly shows the approach is farther inside the geosynchronous orbit, with the narrator saying that there's even more clearance between 2012 DA14 and our satellites/space junk toroid...BUT INSIDE, BETWEEN EARTH AND OUR TACKY TOROID. So it seems Dr. Astro has confirmed for all of us a considerably tighter square dance maneuver with this considerable object. Tunguska asteroid was ~60 m, exploded above the earth (quite close), yet flattened 800 sq. mi. of Siberia's forests. This one is ~50 m (as of 8Feb2013 per NASA Web site posted above). We have 6 days to go.

50 meters "within a factor of two" which means that it might be anywhere from 25 to 100 meters.

Dr Astro, what are the odds of an 8+ quake just before, during or after fly by of earth?

Is this what you're seeking?

"Orbit Changers.

In 1902 Ivan Yarkovsky wrote that solar heating of an object in space would cause it to experience a force leading to large long term effects in the orbits of asteroids.

The Yarkovsky effect can turn many asteroids into sun guided missiles targeting earth.

Blogs.Redorbit.com/is-an-asteroid-collision-inevitable"
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Doc i know you are very popular here, and you have loads of knowledge about all things astronomy. My problem is that i think you are a stuborn know it all. (No-offence) Just the fact that you think you "know" what is going to happen all of the time. I believe that these asteroids and comets and everything out of this world is so unpredictable and the science that you use to make all of your debunking predictings is just as bogus as some of these far out claims. The science that you use and nasa also uses is NOT perfect and they're are still many many unknown factors that we dont even have the technology to even think about being able to "really" track this thing. Thank you for your info but im still putting this into the well see catagory. I like a little excitement :)

Astro. I love your posts but we both know a real impacting threat would not be told to the public. It is a real policy, you know it.

Knowing that, data would need to be scrubbed as well.


Though, resting firmly in reality, the chances of this rock being a hidden Real threat is quite low, very very low.


But when certain oddities arise, like a 99.999% chance of miss for a rock coming closer then ever......


What gets me is the speed this rock passes us. VERY slow cause it drifts in orbit next to us.

If anything, even if it hit at 90 degrees impact. the damage would be low.

Maybe we can have it hit New Orleans and make that place above sea level with all that rock.

Exactly! Thanks for finding that i was looking also!
That right there changes the whole entire game id say

I agree with the above poster minus the spelling errors...

Urgent.

17,000 - 3000= 14000

Hm,...I see


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My video is in agreement with the official orbit and data of this object. According to my own calculations from that uncertainty plot, the close approach distance should be about 17,205 miles from the surface.

No, it's nothing at all like the bogus far out claims. The orbit of this asteroid is known to a precision far greater than that needed to rule out the possibility of impact. You believe they're "unpredictable" in their motion, but I know from first hand experience that they are not.

Wrong. We have the technology to "really" track this thing. The orbit is known. I don't give a damn what names you call me for stating it as such. I will laugh in the faces of my detractors when this asteroid passes us by EXACTLY as predicted. I will track it myself and compare where it actually went to where it was predicted to go, and when I do that and show that it followed my predictions exactly, I will count how many people admit they were totally wrong. I expect that number will probably be close to 0.