Posted on 12/08/2014 10:42:03 AM PST by Red Badger
1,000 times stronger than Chelyabinsk meteorite: New asteroid may threaten Earth
http://rt.com/news/201827-dangerous-asteroid-discovered-ur116/
Maybe the worry-worts will stop worrying about global warming and turn their full attention to this scare.
At night, October 27 Russian robotic telescope , located in the Caucasus Mountains near Kislovodsk, gave a suspicious rapidly moving object (see. picture below the text between shots a few minutes). Denis Denisenko, a member team of craftsmen, sent it to the coordinates of the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. 20 minutes later, the British astronomer confirmed our observation, and for the last two days, astronomers have conducted more than 100 measurements of this object.
Based on the data of the brilliance of the found object and distance calculated from observations of two dozen observatories in the world, we can say that the asteroid 2014 UR116 size exceeds Apophis with the Earth can meet in the next decade, that is, its diameter is greater than 300 meters.
Exact trajectory of the asteroid 2014 UR116 yet impossible to determine, but theoretically it could collide with the Earth, and Mars and Venus. The energy of the explosion, in the event of a collision with the Earth, a thousand times greater than the explosion of Chelyabinsk asteroid.
2014 UR116 this is the third potentially dangerous asteroid, discovered masters. Two others SW24 2013 and 2013 UG1 were smaller 250 and 125 meters respectively. Much larger telescopes US, according to a news website laboratories missed the space object, because all his previous flyby of the Earth took place at the full moon, when the Giants antiasteroid system idle.
Frames of the moving image taken with an interval of several minutes.
- See more at:
http://www.cosmosup.com/dangerous-asteroid-rapidly-approaching-earth/#sthash.ca5mSFnz.dpuf
Could be something or nothing of course..............
Actually I could think of a few places, if this thing hit there, it might make things better.
‘Meanwhile, NASA is working on projects Orbita@home and Spacewatch and plans to deploy The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in 2015.’
Really? I thought they were putting all their energies and $ into Moslem outreach and buying substandard boosters from Russia.
Well if they determine that is going to impact the Earth we’ll see a lot less atheists with every day of it’s approach.
If its going to pass by the earth every 3 years, I’m going to assume its been doing so for a long time.
As they used to say frequently way back when..
INCOMING!!!
Over grand scales of time, I hear ya..
Besides, its not the only big chunker out there..
Just the latest tracked..
Who knows what lurks out in the shadows of Ooort?
That was Orbital Sciences Corp...............
Yes, but sooner or later the orbits must coincide..............
> Maybe the worry-worts will stop worrying about global warming and turn their full attention to this scare.
This would definitely be a wee bit more harmful
“Who knows what lurks out in the shadows of Ooort?”
The Mayans?
Where has it been up until now?
Uhh, dude. Tracking it won't prevent a catastrophe unless we put in place a way to divert it from hitting.
Which we have the technology but not the will to do.
Loitering..............
I think if it were a possible danger to earth, we could do something like nuke it or whatever. At least nudge it into a safer orbit...............
Is there a way to quietly nudge it into a strike on Mecca?
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