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2005 YU55 is a bowling ball... VS the marble that made the AZ crater | |
| Nov 8th @ 22:15e User ID: 4924054  United States11/08/2011 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A little perspective here to those that say YU55 is the size of an aircraft carrier. Imagine a toy aircraft carrier in a gumball machine... YU55 is the size of the round plastic container the toy came in, not the size of the toy itself as YU55 is semi-ball shaped. A little more perspective... YU55 is approx 1300 feet or 400 meters... The meteorite that made the HUGE crater in AZ was estimated to be 130 feet or 40 meters... pic - [link to farm5.static.flickr.com] so... if we scaled down that 130 foot AZ meteorite to the size of a large marble (shooter) and did the same for the 1300 foot YU55, we have something about the size of a bowling ball. Now scale back up to a 1300 foot rock ball screaming toward earth and our moon at 30,000 MPH... how fast is 30,000 MPH? In 2005, YU55 was around 1.5 million miles away...  |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4930994 United States11/08/2011 11:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WATCH LIVE HERE ABOUT THE NEXT EVENT Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) "2005 YU55", a dark, nearly spherical chunk of primordial space rock around 400 metres in diameter, will be making a close fly-by to Earth at 23:28UTC on the 8th November 2011. [link to events.slooh.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4930994 United States11/08/2011 11:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WATCH LIVE HERE ABOUT THE NEXT EVENT Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) "2005 YU55", a dark, nearly spherical chunk of primordial space rock around 400 metres in diameter, will be making a close fly-by to Earth at 23:28UTC on the 8th November 2011. [link to events.slooh.com] there is going to follow on GLP telescope but cnt find a link |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 747708  Canada11/08/2011 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A little perspective here to those that say YU55 is the size of an aircraft carrier. Imagine a toy aircraft carrier in a gumball machine... YU55 is the size of the round plastic container the toy came in, not the size of the toy itself as YU55 is semi-ball shaped. Quoting: Nov 8th @ 22:15e 4924054 A little more perspective... YU55 is approx 1300 feet or 400 meters... The meteorite that made the HUGE crater in AZ was estimated to be 130 feet or 40 meters... pic - [link to farm5.static.flickr.com] so... if we scaled down that 130 foot AZ meteorite to the size of a large marble (shooter) and did the same for the 1300 foot YU55, we have something about the size of a bowling ball. Now scale back up to a 1300 foot rock ball screaming toward earth and our moon at 30,000 MPH... how fast is 30,000 MPH? In 2005, YU55 was around 1.5 million miles away... I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1375041 United States11/08/2011 11:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1375041 United States11/08/2011 11:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 747708 Ya but are we talking common man house or tax funded private naker CEO house???  What time should this be in (US) Central time zone? Private BANKER, lol |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4930994 United States11/08/2011 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A little perspective here to those that say YU55 is the size of an aircraft carrier. Imagine a toy aircraft carrier in a gumball machine... YU55 is the size of the round plastic container the toy came in, not the size of the toy itself as YU55 is semi-ball shaped. Quoting: Nov 8th @ 22:15e 4924054 A little more perspective... YU55 is approx 1300 feet or 400 meters... The meteorite that made the HUGE crater in AZ was estimated to be 130 feet or 40 meters... pic - [link to farm5.static.flickr.com] so... if we scaled down that 130 foot AZ meteorite to the size of a large marble (shooter) and did the same for the 1300 foot YU55, we have something about the size of a bowling ball. Now scale back up to a 1300 foot rock ball screaming toward earth and our moon at 30,000 MPH... how fast is 30,000 MPH? In 2005, YU55 was around 1.5 million miles away... I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. I believe the OP says this... arizono crater caused by 130ft meteor, yu55 is 1300ft = 10x larger than the house size meteor that crashed in arizona... ps my house is 55ft [link to en.wikipedia.org]  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4930994 United States11/08/2011 11:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 747708 Ya but are we talking common man house or tax funded private naker CEO house??? What time should this be in (US) Central time zone? 4 hrs to go [link to events.slooh.com] OP... what is Nov 8th @ 22:15e is this a time where did you get your info |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 2287756 United States11/08/2011 11:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1237682 United States11/08/2011 11:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A little perspective here to those that say YU55 is the size of an aircraft carrier. Imagine a toy aircraft carrier in a gumball machine... YU55 is the size of the round plastic container the toy came in, not the size of the toy itself as YU55 is semi-ball shaped. Quoting: Nov 8th @ 22:15e 4924054 A little more perspective... YU55 is approx 1300 feet or 400 meters... The meteorite that made the HUGE crater in AZ was estimated to be 130 feet or 40 meters... pic - [link to farm5.static.flickr.com] so... if we scaled down that 130 foot AZ meteorite to the size of a large marble (shooter) and did the same for the 1300 foot YU55, we have something about the size of a bowling ball. Now scale back up to a 1300 foot rock ball screaming toward earth and our moon at 30,000 MPH... how fast is 30,000 MPH? In 2005, YU55 was around 1.5 million miles away... I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. The size of a house when it hit the atmosphere or the size of a house when it contacted the now Arizona? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 2287756 United States11/08/2011 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've been to Meteor Crater several times. An object about the size of a house created it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 747708 Ya but are we talking common man house or tax funded private naker CEO house??? What time should this be in (US) Central time zone? 4 hrs to go [link to events.slooh.com] OP... what is Nov 8th @ 22:15e is this a time where did you get your info That time is UTC ( aka GMT) so figure eastern seaboard US time around 615 PM / 515 CST. |
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| Chrit User ID: 1302953 United States11/08/2011 12:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 30,000MPH is 500 miles a minuite, the atmosphere is max 300 miles "thick" that equals 36 seconds from atmo to impact on a direct course. Last Edited by Chrit on 11/08/2011 12:38 PM I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4938257 United States11/08/2011 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From what I have researched, if the thing hits land then it will be complete devastation for about 50 miles. If it hits water, then you have to worry about tsunamis. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2214708 If you live inland, odds are you will be just fine. will be just fine from the impact, not from the following economic devastation - 15 days for total US collapse or - TEOTWAWKI  |
| LoveConquersAll User ID: 1558772 United States11/08/2011 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Now scale back up to a 1300 foot rock ball screaming toward earth and our moon at 30,000 MPH... how fast is 30,000 MPH? In 2005, YU55 was around 1.5 million miles away..." LOL, I loved the way you worded it, terrifying, but seriously hilarious, I laughed, for reals! Yep, also, thanks for scaring the shit out of me! Put down your weapons, Arm in Arm, Love One Another UNITE |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4938257 United States11/08/2011 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I heard this morning on CNN it was the size of 4 football fields.popcorn Quoting: natasha77 I find it interesting they keep comparing it to flat objects... imagine a sphere or round rock ball sitting on 4 football fields in length. Now imagine it being higher that the empire state building sitting on those 4 fields. Empire State Building Height is 1,250 feet yu55 is 1,300 feet |
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| Xisuthros Rex User ID: 908143 United States11/08/2011 01:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I heard this morning on CNN it was the size of 4 football fields.popcorn Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4938257 Quoting: natasha77 I find it interesting they keep comparing it to flat objects... imagine a sphere or round rock ball sitting on 4 football fields in length. Now imagine it being higher that the empire state building sitting on those 4 fields. Empire State Building Height is 1,250 feet yu55 is 1,300 feet lmao....."It's as big as 10,000 sheets of paper laid out!"  This is my day, there are many like it...but this one is mine. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4938257 United States11/08/2011 01:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I heard this morning on CNN it was the size of 4 football fields.popcorn Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4938257 Quoting: natasha77 I find it interesting they keep comparing it to flat objects... imagine a sphere or round rock ball sitting on 4 football fields in length. Now imagine it being higher that the empire state building sitting on those 4 fields. Empire State Building Height is 1,250 feet yu55 is 1,300 feet lmao....."It's as big as 10,000 sheets of paper laid out!" now if we can get 10,000 people with origami skills to intercept it and fold it into a giant swan before it hits, that would be awesome.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 241421 United States11/08/2011 01:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 3960075 United States11/08/2011 01:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WATCH LIVE HERE ABOUT THE NEXT EVENT Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) "2005 YU55", a dark, nearly spherical chunk of primordial space rock around 400 metres in diameter, will be making a close fly-by to Earth at 23:28UTC on the 8th November 2011. [link to events.slooh.com] Think that's at 5:28pm CST |
