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NASA emails reveal agency's surprise at asteroid's near-miss of Earth
axios ^
| 09/19/2019
| Jacob Knutson
Posted on 09/19/2019 10:46:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The asteroid, called "2019 OK," passed about 40,400 miles above Earth's surface roughly 5 times closer to Earth than the moon at 55,000 miles per hour and could have "created localized devastation to an area roughly 50 miles across" if it struck land, according to a NASA news release.
"An asteroid of this size coming this close to Earth is a pretty rare event on the order of about twice a century," according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASAs Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2019ok; asteroid; asteroid2019ok; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; emails; nasa; nearmissrth; paulchodas; science
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posted on
09/19/2019 10:46:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/19/2019 10:51:25 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
To: BenLurkin
Twice a century?
I hope the other one happened already too.
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posted on
09/19/2019 11:49:45 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: BenLurkin
The asteroid, called "2019 OK," passed about 40,400 miles above Earth's surface
I find nothing OK about that...
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posted on
09/20/2019 3:52:27 AM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: major_gaff
Why it matters: The emails show that NASA officials believe the agency is lacking necessary infrastructure to reliably detect asteroids.
Ummm, maybe if NASA wasn't wasting money on the 'Man made global
warming hoax' they could up grade their infrastructure...just sayin'
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posted on
09/20/2019 3:58:14 AM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: dp0622
I was briefing some JASON think tank PhDs on some space ops stuff a few months ago. One of them pulled me aside and let me know that in November the Earth will be passing through the same debris field that produced the 1908 Tunguska event. Has the potential to get pretty interesting.
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posted on
09/20/2019 4:33:02 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(Life doesnÂ’t give you seatbelts)
To: USAF1985
...in November the Earth will be passing through the same debris field that produced the 1908 Tunguska event.
Forgive my lack of knowledge on this subject and laziness in trying to find it myself, but do you know if this is the first time we will pass through that field since the 1908 event?
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posted on
09/20/2019 4:56:04 AM PDT
by
chrisser
To: chrisser
but do you know if this is the first time we will pass through that field since the 1908 event? We pass through this "field" once a year just as we pass through various comet debris fields once a year which cause meteor showers particular to that comet.
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posted on
09/20/2019 6:03:03 AM PDT
by
plsvn
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/20/2019 6:06:15 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
To: USAF1985
One of them pulled me aside and let me know that in November the Earth will be passing through the same debris field that produced the 1908 Tunguska event. Has the potential to get pretty interesting.
"The biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska Blast of 1908!"
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posted on
09/20/2019 6:10:20 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/20/2019 6:13:00 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
To: BenLurkin
...roughly 5 times closer to Earth than the moon... That is a rather ignorant way of stating something is 1/5 the distance to the moon. We don't use a whole multiplier when describing a divisor.
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posted on
09/20/2019 6:25:04 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: chrisser
Yes. The first time since 1908.
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posted on
09/20/2019 7:25:32 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(Life doesnÂ’t give you seatbelts)
To: COBOL2Java
Sweet reference...but Im not gonna go all inter-dimensional on anyone. Could be nothing, but could get a nice giant iceball all thrown at us again from the cosmos.
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posted on
09/20/2019 7:35:30 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(Life doesnÂ’t give you seatbelts)
To: USAF1985
Great.
Now i’ll be sleeping with one eye looking out the window till December :)
Maybe it will hit Tunguska again :)
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posted on
09/20/2019 7:54:08 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: USAF1985
You'd think that the Russians would be very interested in locating potential Earth crossing asteroids, since they seem to get a lot of them.
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posted on
09/20/2019 8:25:50 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
09/20/2019 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: GingisK
Thanks. That drives me crazy.
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posted on
09/20/2019 9:33:29 AM PDT
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
To: BenLurkin
55,000 mph? wow. That’ll leave a divot. 40K miles ain’t a lot.
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posted on
09/20/2019 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: BenLurkin
55,000 mph? wow. That’ll leave a divot. 40K miles ain’t a lot.
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posted on
09/20/2019 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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