YU55 Closest Approach Distance Will Be 0.0000416667AU = 3904 miles -> NASA Lying<--

If it is that close then the chances for impact increase greatly. Given that low orbiting satalites are 200 to 2,000 miles above the earth, the astroid will be in the gravity well of the planet. It will change its course! If it does not hit because of its speed, it could end up sling shooting across the sky! Talk about a shooting star!

so will it hit i need a no B.s assessment

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... ... what a net we would need! ...
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Wait...what's an upliftment?

This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained on Nov. 7, 2011, at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), when the space rock was at 3.6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1.38 million kilometers, from Earth.


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"This rollercoaster of emotions will keep repeating itself untill the unpredicted real doom hits hard."

So we need all the practice we can get.

And you know this how? If close approach is between 7 and 11 PM then that area of the earth will be out of it's path

I understand what he did with the math and it makes sense. Who knows what the real numbers are though; he's using their information which is already inherently suspicious.

The Federal government or any agency of it would NOT warn of an impending disaster that couldn't be mitigated.And I'll tell you something else, the more I hear about this the more I think an impact is possible. To deflect .85 lunar distance even if the data were real would take very little force.
The bottom line is we won;t know until the day after, and by then Paris or Montreal or some other large city along with the surrounding several hundred miles could be a memory.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR ANY BUREAUCRACY THEREOF WILL NEVER SERVE ANY USEFUL FUNCTION TO PRESERVE HUMAN LIFE, THEY ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF ELIMINATING IT.

it's not NASA that generates the orbital elements of YU55 that is represented in their orbital diagrams, it's the entire astronomical community, amateur and professional represented through the Minor Planet Ephemeris Service.

haarp was so last year, theyve stepped it up a gear lol

That's closer to the earth diameter. The earths radius is 3,959 (ish).

As for the measurement being from the center of the earth I can't comment on that.

Ya know.... This really makes me nuts..... They can take crystal clear images of shit millions.of light years away but the only images of a 400 m wide object that is only 800k miles away looks like it is a screenshot outta a 8 bit video game from the 80's!.....

Anybody know of any clear hi-res shots of this...

...or I'm calling shenanigans....ALL YOUR BASE!



Oh yea... Good post OP.... Hope you're wrong!

That you're clueless?

so its 3 times as big as the space station and thats way closer,,so whats the panic space station only 380 km high which varies,asteroid 3900 ,,figures just guessin but think about it,,if its one rock it is way off.

And to the OP, although the motion of the bodies is near linear over short times, the approach distances do not very in a linear manner very near the minimum.

Last Edited by saros136 on 11/07/2011 06:32 PM

Good point, the Earths gravity and the moons gravity will alter any such 'linear course'. Bottom line is like I said, we won't know until it passes or it hits because we wouldn't be warned if impact was imminent and them are the facts.

Idiot

Density and velocity my friend. The space station is not that heavy or fast and most of it would disintegrate upon re entry. This asteroid will come in in one piece.

Horizons calculates the minimum approach for Nov 8 at 23:28 UT.

Let's try JPL's diagram data

Nov 8, .0079 au.
9 .0022
10 .0085

The extremum algorithm from Astronomical Algorithms by Meeus, p 25. gives 0.0022 au at Nov 8.975, or 23:24.

It would be easy to check this by finding an algorithm online.

Last Edited by saros136 on 11/07/2011 06:41 PM

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No where close.

You believe a post on GLP. NASA has at least been 100% consistent in it's predictions of NEO trajectories.

We need to take out the moon! There is no purpose!

Take out the moon!

Glad to hear that asteroids like the French

so at what time will we see anything and where abouts to look?

It was 0 a few weeks ago ... WTF??

Actually, it had only been about 45% accurate. Stop making statements that you have no idea of what u are saying.

Ya, what's up with that?