Asteroid 2013 LR6 past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday!

The 30-foot-wide (10-meter-wide) asteroid posed no threat.

OH NO REAHIHIHILY

now when it's gone but not seen before it was front door LoL


[link to science.nbcnews.com]

An object of that size hit the planet about 65 million years ago in what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering a global climate change that is believed to be responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs and many other forms of life on Earth.

The U.S. space agency and other research organizations, as well as private companies, are working on tracking smaller objects that fly near Earth.


Thank Lord we are SAVED! They're working on tracking ...

Yikes!

yup

but no worries as long as they are working on tracking smaller objects that fly near Earth

once they notice one they will tell us

few days later, if not too late

I wonder how they know it's from the asteroid belt

if

it was discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on June 6

and

It’s one more asteroid that’s moved from the realm of unknown to that of the known. One more potential hazard to watch to better understand its travel plans in the years ahead.

it's absurd how obvious contradiction appears in one small article, and writer survives

this same article [link to science.nbcnews.com]

... And nothng happened. ...

Awful lot of objects swinging past us recently. Either this is a normal occurrence and they didnt mention these objects or something big is up.

Is there a way to see if there is an increase in objects flying past other planets?

Nothing

LOL

HOW?

Remember Russian meteor?

The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object.

[link to www.nasa.gov]

They said the russian one was from the asteroid belt too

So, it looks like we have a blitz of rocks from the asteroid belt visiting the inner solar system?

A ten meter wide rock triggered a global climate change?

It's not logical that an object that small can cause so much impact on a body this big. It's like shooting a grain of sand at a basket ball.

actually, that analogy also works for the Chixulub object

Didn't know about that one. Nothing happened but I'm wondering how long it will take that we are running out of luck?!

Wrong. The asteroid that impacted 65 million years ago is estimated to be many KILOMETERS wide, not anywhere near the same as 30 feet or 10 meters.

[link to www.google.com]

We're moving through an ancient Asteroid debris field which is previously unknown to us. Apparently it is the result of an ancient collision which occurred inside my pocket.

many km?


NASA says it has found about 95 percent of the large asteroids, those with diameters 0.65 miles or larger, with orbits that take them relatively close to Earth.

An object of that size hit the planet about 65 million years ago in what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering a global climate change that is believed to be responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs and many other forms of life on Earth.
[link to science.nbcnews.com]

Your link supports him, not you. It talks about asteroids .65 miles or larger then says "an object of that size". Plus the majority of references on his link say 10 kilometers.

Quite a lot of you seem to pass the fact that we actually are cabable of spotting anything at all up there??

Isn't that quite an accomplishment already?

If you have something to complain about the progress we are making and how slowly it goes, which it does not, I say, get a study, become smart and improve it yourself.

You wankers

If Asteroid 2013 LR6 hits earth and you are 10 miles from impact, it won't even leave a crater. It will burn up in the atmosphere and make a big bang. Maybe a couple fragments will hit the earth. Asteroids this size (16 meters in diameter) hit earth every 36 years or so.


Your Inputs:
Distance from Impact: 16.10 km ( = 10.00 miles )
Projectile diameter: 16.00 meters ( = 52.50 feet )
Projectile Density: 3000 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 9.88 km per second ( = 6.14 miles per second )
Impact Angle: 60 degrees
Target Density: 2500 kg/m3
Target Type: Sedimentary Rock

Energy:
Energy before atmospheric entry: 3.14 x 1014 Joules = 0.75 x 10-1 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 36.8 years

Major Global Changes:
The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
The impact does not make a noticeable change in the tilt of Earth's axis (< 5 hundreths of a degree).
The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.

Atmospheric Entry:
The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 45400 meters = 149000 ft
The projectile bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 19700 meters = 64800 ft
The residual velocity of the projectile fragments after the burst is 5.85 km/s = 3.63 miles/s
The energy of the airburst is 2.04 x 1014 Joules = 0.49 x 10-1 MegaTons.
No crater is formed, although large fragments may strike the surface.

Air Blast:
What does this mean?


The air blast will arrive approximately 1.29 minutes after impact.
Peak Overpressure: 58.7 Pa = 0.000587 bars = 0.00834 psi
Max wind velocity: 0.138 m/s = 0.31 mph
Sound Intensity: 35 dB (Easily Heard)

[link to wiki.answers.com]

So much for that supposed thing call gravity, if earth can't capture this then we need to rethink this hypnosis.

Good point

If earth had captured this then we had to rethink this hypnosis.

If you two don't know, that besides gravity also distance and velocity is involved, get a basic physics book and refrain from posting until you got the basics.

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Obviously the Chixulub asteroid is part of the "or larger."