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

It DIDN'T.

Hey TS!! Thanks,...seems like that is big news all in itself.





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Hey Z, yes I think so too

Or, as NASA said, twice that size (a factor of 2), meaning four times bigger in volume (pi * R ^2).

Oops, 4 * pi * radius2.

No I don't. Learn what significant figures are. NASA's not saying it's 17000 miles exactly on the dot. Please tell me you're not that stupid.

Quit trying to confuse people. Quit trying to attack my video on false premises. People like you are why I will never stop debunking, because people like you need to be put in their place.

NASA's exact prediction of the close approach distance (note these distances are to earth's center, not the surface, subtract a mean radius of 3959 miles):
[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
Close approach between 17,194.1444 - 17,205.4341 miles. My figure falls into their close approach range, I am not in disagreement with NASA.

Well, thanks for your insights. I most definitely agree with you.

Do you see an increase in "events" over the years?
Do you discern any patterns?


Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 02/09/2013 11:25 AM

its a paltin rock.
if it hits it will devatate a radius of 400 miles....

Hear! Hear! There is huge noise (amplifying error) in mathematics, which mathematics books just cram in the back as a footnote because they don't know what else to do with it. It's called chaos, which is what exploded at NASA when they flubbed their conversions from miles to kilometers on that muy expensivo space shot. Read a great book titled Chaos by Mitchell Waldrop (there is more than one book by that title, so get Waldrop's). Listen, Einstein's math has now been disproven, and he was one schmart mensch! Yes, math failed Einstein. I do not worship the chalkboard god. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions is THE MANTRA of High Complexity Science, so face it, Astro, you cannot and do not know the initial conditions of 2012 DA-14. Your calculations and all others are approximations only...NOT certainties.

Basic physics?

Is that the same basic physics that you believed happened on 9/11?

CORRECTION PLEASE: Complexity by Mitchell Waldrop is the correct title. Sheesh, I was thinking about James Gleick's Chaos at the same time before typing. See? Sensitive dependence on initial conditions led to Chaos in my message! :-)

snot good...

Nick®

it will appear over the asian area at about 20:00 GMT.
no worries.

if it explodes in the athmosphere it will have onlöy the effect of a couple hndret hiroshima bombs.

So, you give Mr. Yarkovsky no credit.
Figures..
I personally believe this should be looked into more. I also think that we live in a world where magnetics play a big part and that would mean that the guts of this thing DO matter quite a bit. Your statements are becoming irrelevant here.

News said yesterday Australia would have the best view.

PIN IT, yes!

If Nasa are so great then why didn't they spot it first?

Eastern Europe and Australia I heard.

You would need a good telescope to see it.

Dr. Astro, in your opinion have you noticed an increasing trend of near earth objects over the last 10 years? It seems that debris from the oort cloud and other very odd orbits of comets are coming into the solar system at this time. We look at the small asteroids like these or Comet ISON or the dozen or so previous sun diving comets I have personally noticed and it seems to me that we are starting to move through a more densely packed part of space.

I always wondered as comets and other objects move through space, do they pick up the magnetic orientation of it's surroundings and can they have their trajectories manipulated by magnetic fields? In my point of view learning about things like this will help us when we start to look to use asteroids and small space objects to use as solar system satellites and for mining purposes. Just a thought.

[link to earthsky.org]

"An illustration of the Yarkovsky effect. As sunlight (bottom) heats the rotating asteroid, parts that are exposed to the sun for longer get warmer. The warmest regions radiate the most heat. The radiation imparts a push on the asteroid, in this case in the same direction it is orbiting the sun."

I find myself becoming more and more affiliated with the electric universe theory.

Perhaps, when the asteroid goes by, everyone who said Dr. Astro was wrong were forced to give Astro Good Karma...

What if it collides with a satellite or any of the mega-ton of space debris orbiting the planet? Could that change it's trajectory to the earth?

Here is some old but really good info on this specific asteroid [link to www.whatdoesitmean.com]

I'm sorry but even though I think NASA does lie and spin certain things, they do also produce legitimate data and results. This is easily checked for validity and can be done by thousands of people across the planet. That's the one good thing about space, its verifiable. It will not hit a satellite or the surface, i'm going to just put that out there.

Time too nuke it.

Hellz yeah!

Thanks for your level head.

Some people like to scare the hell outta ya. They must get off on that shit.

You mean if its an iron asteroid?

Isn't the Earth a giant magnet?

It all plays a part, but the radiation emitted from the sun could easily nullify the Earths magnetic strength.