***...zipping between our planet and the moon just two days after astronomers first spotted it.***
This was only discovered two days ago?
I thought space activity was monitored constantly via telescopes, space stations, satilites, etc.. Seems like this should have been anticipated long ago.
On the other hand, maybe it was and we were kept in the dark so as to prevent panic and/or suicides.
According to A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, if an asteroid were to come straight at us and destroy us, you’d probably have only about one second of warning before it happened. You wouldn’t get a day, or an hour. You would have one second, enough time to go “What the?” and then it’s all over.
Please note that I have not personally fact-checked this and I do not in any way endorse this information. Just putting it out there for conversational purposes.
“This was only discovered two days ago?
I thought space activity was monitored constantly via telescopes, space stations, satilites, etc.. Seems like this should have been anticipated long ago.
On the other hand, maybe it was and we were kept in the dark so as to prevent panic and/or suicides.”
NASA is busy proving AGW, and doing muslim outreach.
This is off of their radar. (Very bad pun, intended).
This happens once in awhile - seems like just a couple years ago the same thing happened where one passed between us and the moon and they saw it AFTER it went by.
Like grandma said “When its your time to go, its your time to go.”
They had to cut back their hours to avoid obamacare...
It’s a very small asteroid.
We simply don’t have close to enough telescopes with enough power to detect all asteroids this size while they are months or years away.
cloaking
Ford Prefect? They’re just putting a space highway here. part of the Obama shovel ready stimulus