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‘Hazardous’ Asteroid 2006 QQ23 Might Hit Earth Next Month!
Mashable India ^ | 07/18/2019 | Natasha Mathur

Posted on 07/18/2019 4:11:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Another day, another Asteroid! It was just yesterday when the news of Asteroid 2006 QV89 not hitting our Earth in september came to light. And now NASA has already detected another massive hazardous asteroid, named 2006 QQ23, that has high chances of hitting our Earth next month.

According to CNEOS, 2006 QQ23, is expected to move past Earth on August 10th at 7:23 AM ST at a distance of about 0.04977 au which is a rather shorter distance in astronomical terms. It has also been tagged as “hazardous” meaning it has a pretty good chance of hitting our planet if its orbit manages to intersect with our Earth’s orbit. The estimated diameter for the asteroid has been estimated to around 250 m - 570 m i.e. close to 1870 feet. This makes it larger in size than many popular tall skyscrapers in our world today. Also, the asteroid is much bigger in size as compared to the Chelyabinsk meteor that was approximately 66ft in size and entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia back in 2013.

But, does this mean we have to worry? If we go by the history of asteroids that made headlines for hitting our Earth in the past few months, we might not have to worry so much, as these asteroids often tend to either burn off in the air or become a no-show (we're looking at you 2006 QV89) even if they manage to enter our Earth’s atmosphere.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2006qq23; asteroid; astronomy; catastrophism; science; smod
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To: Clutch Martin

Similar but your lawn chairs need far more cushioning due to the massive extremist hyper velocity of an asteroid, compared to just super sonic speeds of ICBM nukes.

You can thank me after the BOOM!


41 posted on 07/18/2019 5:06:08 PM PDT by Professional
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To: BenLurkin

Where’s Bruce Willis when you need him?


42 posted on 07/18/2019 5:11:47 PM PDT by x
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Dude, it’s passing 20x farther than the moon.


43 posted on 07/18/2019 5:18:29 PM PDT by Justa
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44 posted on 07/18/2019 5:18:34 PM PDT by Rio
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To: simi_ed

May God grant us protection.

What will the next AU portion be?

And when will the tectonic plates shift significantly in California?

And will the Weather Channel correctly predict the arc of movement of the biggest hurricane of the year 2019?

And when will the next MSM commentator say that Trump reminds him or her of Hitler? (That last one was a setup. Already happened as I was typing.)


45 posted on 07/18/2019 5:27:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: DoodleBob

Thanks for that detailed classification chart. A lot more authoritative than my musings below.


46 posted on 07/18/2019 5:31:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is there a way to direct it to Chappaqua?


47 posted on 07/18/2019 5:32:33 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: BenLurkin
"...it has a pretty good chance of hitting our planet if its orbit manages to intersect with our Earth’s orbit."

Always true for any asteroid or run-away freight train...

Sounds like another recent prediction from the fabulously fat prophet: Rachel Bitecofer, the assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University...

48 posted on 07/18/2019 5:33:29 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: UCANSEE2

RE: Creepy photo:

Realize that this is how we all appear to the Dems and Millenials. We look worse to the Squad women.

In the mirror we guys say each morning:
Hey,dude. Ya’ still got it, boy. Go get ‘em.


49 posted on 07/18/2019 5:35:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: JaguarXKE
Might even end life for everyone (except cockroaches).

.....and Keith Richards.

50 posted on 07/18/2019 5:38:31 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: BenLurkin

Please, either hit DC, LA, or anywhere in the muslim sandbox world.


51 posted on 07/18/2019 5:46:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Williams

Take a xanax.

I think I’ll still keep showing up for work just in case THE BIG ONE doesn’t hit :)


52 posted on 07/18/2019 5:49:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: frank ballenger

I liked your musings. The Torino Scale works but it requires estimation and identifications. Without your musings, the Scale is like a full score of Beethoven’s 9th but no orchestra.


53 posted on 07/18/2019 5:51:30 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
If one this size hits land it will end civilization as we know it. If it hits ocean the tsunami would change the coastlines all around the ocean it hit and send enough water vapor into the atmosphere to raise global temps by a few degrees (a catastrophe). If it hits in either polar region the oceans rise would alter civilization significantly but not be an extinction event.
54 posted on 07/18/2019 5:56:12 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Flick Lives

Not only sensationalistic but really stupid and contradictory.

“It has also been tagged as “hazardous” meaning it has a pretty good chance of hitting our planet if its orbit manages to intersect with our Earth’s orbit.”

“NASA has already detected another massive hazardous asteroid, named 2006 QQ23, that has high chances of hitting our Earth next month.”

Why is it hazardous if it’s going to be much further away than the moon? Why is there a high chance of hitting the earth?

The author is a space case.


55 posted on 07/18/2019 5:59:02 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: citizen

If there was any genuine risk we would not be reading about this.

CC


56 posted on 07/18/2019 6:00:39 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How big do you need for extinction?

Chicxulub was about 10 km.

But that was a worst case, a shallow water strike over carbonaceous rock.

57 posted on 07/18/2019 6:02:26 PM PDT by null and void (The Democratic Party is back to loving workers but hating employers. A winning formula IÂ’m sure.)
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To: onona
Me too! Congrats! (For however long we have)😀

CC

58 posted on 07/18/2019 6:03:02 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: onona
"Ready to do what?
Fornicate like minks...."

Or monks, in the case of my bitter half!)

59 posted on 07/18/2019 6:04:45 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: dp0622

Yours was the best comment yet.

The thousand years straight now of “Damn, asteroid didn’t hit today. Well, off to work again.”


60 posted on 07/18/2019 6:12:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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