Posted on 05/29/2012 6:22:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which tracks such flybys, said the asteroid - dubbed 2012 KT42 - was the sixth closest asteroid approach.
It was the second asteroid encounter this week. On Monday, another asteroid, measuring 69 feet across, flew by at a distance of 32,000 miles.
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The first one to fly by was only 8,950 miles away!
Heck, I’m sure there is one that will come close enough
to keep us from crowding the plate.
Might liven things up around here.
Entering a ‘swarm’?
Wish one would drop right on top of UC Berekley.
I was thinking more like that country that starts with pock and ends with eshtawn.
“The asteroid passed through the Clark Belt of geosynchronous satellites making it a very near miss in the cosmic scheme of things. The asteroid wasn’t large about 3 m wide, but came so close to the earth that ranks in the list of the 10 closest asteroid passes ever recorded. The 3 m wide asteroid is the sixth closest near miss ever.”
http://www.slashgear.com/recently-discovered-asteroid-passes-very-near-earth-29230628/
Oh-kay....
Now somebody crunch some numbers and describe what the impact crater sizes would have been if they had succeeded in hitting earth.
I vaguely recal and I am probably wrong but the impact crater in the SW from from an object only 150 ft. in diameter.
Best not to get panties in a wad over these pebbles. Need to save that for 99942 Apophis.
Best not to get panties in a wad over these pebbles. Need to save that for 99942 Apophis.
Airplanes fly higher than 32,000 miles above earth.
Wow. Thats why I read free republic. Facts
Discovered Monday, relatively close call Tuesday. Not that anything could be done or that they would tell us until after disaster struck, but, is the size the reason they didn’t “discover” the one until the day before it whizzed by?
Oops! I meant feet....I thought I read the asteroid was flying in feet. It’s like I’ve been drinkin but I haven’t.
There but before the Grace of God, go you and me......
Wrong scale. Jet aircraft usually fly in the 20,000 to 35,000 feet range.
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale considers outer space to start a 100 kilometers. (62 miles)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120329043644AAY4a47
Well... I bet you are popular at parties.
“Airplanes fly higher than 32,000 miles above earth.”
No wonder they keep losing my luggage - it burns up in the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry.
Thanks, I had a senior moment. Hopefully I’m done for the night.
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