Asteroid 2012 DA14 is getting bigger and bigger. WTF?

Isn't it just the opposite?

I would imagine that initially the impact would thrust the whole planet sideways several hundred or thousand miles flinging everything everywhere violently and then the ground would have the consistency of water from being pulverized,and then a giant super heated air blast thousands of degrees F. would circle the globe killing everything.And depending on the size of the other planet,probably would turn the crust and mantle of earth into molten magma.Not a good day.

It's rotating! Like everything in space. Xept artificial objects...

M1 attracts M2

and M2 attracts M1 reciprocally

So if M2 mass was larger then the attraction is greater between the two.

At 65 meters ut is now around 70 70 yards for football field perspective...hmmm....

What if Obummer has a different announcement to make tonight? NAHHH ...

always with the football fields .

The gravity of earth will affect it the same regardless of its mass. Physics fail. Even if it were a kilometer wide the difference in its mass would not matter.

In this situation M1>>>>>>M2 to such an extent that you can effectively ignore M2. Even if you double or triple M2 it still would be irrelevant.

Thanks Doc; you I have some trust in. (I knew the mass didn't matter)

Do you have any numbers that point to a distance less than the ~14,000 miles above the surface?

I would love for it to pass through the atmosphere. Lots of people pissing their pants as this thing breaks the sound barrier at something near mach 4.

Will it be visible from the ground, and from where on the Earth's surface?

It's still ~17,000 mile from the surface at close approach. CNN fucked it up in their report.
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Only with optical aid, and only if you can very precisely and rapidly point that optical aid (in other words, a GOTO telescope is going to be the most practical way to see it).

Hit the wrong button on the calculator. Way faster than mach 4; close to orbital velocity as it passes.

So now, we know that it will hit the mother earth.

Watched your video:




Thanks for your efforts. You sound like a young guy. Here I have been thinking you are an old retired fellow to have time to piss around on a goofy forum like this. (I am old and retired)

not 100% sure, but there is a chance.

I wish to know where this fucker could fall, if it would.

I hope it falls in the ocean.

Hit the Ocean???? Better it hits a desert or we will have a killer tsunami mankind never seen before.

So then if the size is bigger and the original size they said would effect a 750 mile area imagine what a bigger size would effect?? Of course though astromut says it wont hit so I guess we believe him, however if they were wrong at NASA on size then how do we know they were not wrong on where its going?? Of course if they were wrong they wouldn't tell us would they??

Force = Mass x Acceleration

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No they won't... They don't know anything more than you and me and the astroDR. They just hope that it won't hit.

Yes, actually people like me and those at NASA do know more than you.

why would we believe they can travel in space?
it obviously all BS!

the asteriod is 50 miles in daimeter and will hit bejing!
i bet!

Thanks! I do what I can in the time I have available. Most amateurs are old retired fellows. I'm the youngest active member of my astronomy club.

eurasia region.
if it hits.

So why didn't you genious didn't estimate the actual size before?

how do ya know dat?