Asteroid 2007 BB close fly-by (Moon)

NASA/JPL ^ | 1-18-07 | JPL

[Orlando]

Asteroid 2007 BB to pass between 0.0026 au or 0.0025 au. The distance to the moon is 0.00256 au(238,855 miles). Earth is okay from any impact. Just for your information.

[Orlando]

0.0025 au= 232,389 miles from Earth. 0.0026 au= 241,685 miles from Earth.

[Orlando]

Orbit Simulation

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2007%20BB

[Orlando]

Here's more data:

http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2007bb

[Pontiac]

The asteroid appears to cross Earths orbit twice in the NASA simulation. Have any idea when that will be.

Will the asteroid be visible either day with say binoculars?

[Orlando]

New updated chart:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca?type=NEA;type=NEC;type=NEC;hmax=all;tlim=recent_future;dmax=0.1AU;max_rows=200;fmt=full;action=Display%20Table;show=1&sort=date&sdir=ASC

[Pontiac]

With a diameter of 10 meters probably not going to be visible with binoculars.

Never mind.

[Orlando]

Jan 19th(Friday).
Estimated Diameter: 7.8m-18m

"Will the asteroid be visible either day with say binoculars?"

I don't know ?

This data is not yet on

http://www.spaceweather.com

[WestVirginiaRebel]

A BB asteroid?

"You'll poke yer eye out, kid!"

[Orlando]

LOL! That's cool

[Orlando]

Impact chart:

http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/sormano/teca.html

Sun, Solar Winds data:

http://www.n3kl.org

[Orlando]

Can a very strong solar winds effect small objects in space ?

http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/

Comet McNaught Photo Gallery:

http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_mcnaught_page11.htm

Check-out Jan 17th image from Cape, South Africa.
The comet tail might be leaving behind unknown debris?

[Vaquero]

ping

[Vaquero]

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[KevinDavis]

[reg45]

Could it hit the moon?

[BenLurkin]

Just how big is this "BB"?

[SunkenCiv]

It's smaller than the 98, but both have been discontinued.

[SunkenCiv]

potential future Earth impact events
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

this showed up in the Google search:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/03/bigass_asteroid_whoo.html

Monday, July 3, 2006

Big-ass asteroid whooshes by Earth, too close for comfort

A very large asteroid flew a mere 270,000 miles from Earth's surface today, just a tad farther than our moon. But then 2004-XP14 read the bumper sticker on Earth's backside which read, "Get any closer and I'll fart!," so the asteroid veered off. And here we are, all of us, unsmashed -- for now.

and from a prophecies forum:

Jan. 17 #2: The discovery of 2007 BB has been announced, discovered this morning and confirmed alone by the CSS, which followed it over a span of 6.77 hours. JPL is showing that this tiny object will pass Earth at about one lunar distance on January 19th. And the MPC is indicating that it will go out of view for all ground-based telescopes around the 23rd.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/h22/now.htm#K07B00B

[SunkenCiv]

Just a teeny tiny catastrophe.

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