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2005 YU55 Finally Makes MSM Headlines - 400m now?
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[quote:Lateralus:MV8xNjg0ODU4X0MxMjEzOUIy] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45064085/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/all-eyes-are-huge-asteroid-buzzing-earth-nov/?gt1=43001 "This space rock is asteroid 2005 YU55, a veritable mini-world roughly 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide — nearly four football fields across — that will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon." Wasn't it just the other day that Spaceweather changed its size from 175m to 200m and now MSN is claiming it's 400m? I'm not calling doom on this, but what's with all these new calculations. Thoughts? [/quote]
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"This space rock is asteroid 2005 YU55, a veritable mini-world roughly 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide — nearly four football fields across — that will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon."
Wasn't it just the other day that Spaceweather changed its size from 175m to 200m and now MSN is claiming it's 400m? I'm not calling doom on this, but what's with all these new calculations. Thoughts?
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