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A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1 - and NASA says it's the largest
Daily Mail ^ | 18 August 2017 | Cheyenne Macdonald

Posted on 08/18/2017 4:14:12 PM PDT by george76

A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1 - and NASA says it's the largest to come this close since they began keeping track ... [ full ]

This is the closest an object this large has come ... since 1890.

A massive asteroid estimated to be 2.7 miles wide is set to make a ‘relatively close encounter’ with Earth on September 1.

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The asteroid, named for Florence Nightingale, was first spotted in 1981, and the flyby in September will be the closest it’s come to Earth since 1890.

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According to NASA, it will even be visible to small telescopes in late August and early September, when it brightens to the ninth magnitude.

During this time, it will pass through the constellations Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus, Aquarius and Delphinus.

NASA scientists will use ground-based radar to observe its features up close, using radar imaging NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

With these instruments, they will be able to see it’s true size, and even observe surface details as small as about 30 feet (10 meters).

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Earlier this month, the space agency revealed an asteroid the size of a house set to narrowly skim the Earth in October, after it was spotted by scientists for the first time in five years.

The asteroid, dubbed 2012 TC4, first flitted past our planet in October 2012 at about double the distance of its next expected pass, before disappearing.

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TC4's next approach, predicted for October 12, will bring the massive object 'damn close', according to experts, when it flies inside the moon's orbit – just far out enough to miss our geostationary satellites.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 3122florence; asteroid; asteroidflorence; asteroids; catastrophism; nasa
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1 posted on 08/18/2017 4:14:12 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Man, global warming is more dangerous than we thought! (/libtard “thinking”)


2 posted on 08/18/2017 4:16:32 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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A THREE MILE wide asteroid

First reports I heard it was only 2.7 miles , so it's growing on every new report

3 posted on 08/18/2017 4:17:55 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: george76

Sure it wasn’t named after Rosie O’Donnell?


4 posted on 08/18/2017 4:18:00 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: george76

Outer space is an empty vacuum... filled with all the matter in the universe.


5 posted on 08/18/2017 4:18:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1

It's going to eat grass?

6 posted on 08/18/2017 4:23:14 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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Graze??

"Dubbed ‘Florence,’ the space rock will pass 4.4 million miles from our planet"


7 posted on 08/18/2017 4:24:30 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: piroque

A five mile wide asteroid zipping past on September first.

Scary


8 posted on 08/18/2017 4:25:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: george76

None of these articles are even slightly accurate.

These are the same people who look at the sun in somekinda angstroms and say “Half the sun is missing!”

spaceweather.com. Done.


9 posted on 08/18/2017 4:25:24 PM PDT by Celerity
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Image result for space cow
10 posted on 08/18/2017 4:25:58 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: piroque
Accretion, you know ... from all the junk we have flying around up there.

Or, it could be growing because of climate change...

11 posted on 08/18/2017 4:26:42 PM PDT by glennaro
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“Eat more chiken”

5.56mm


12 posted on 08/18/2017 4:27:32 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: freedumb2003

[ Man, global warming is more dangerous than we thought! (/libtard “thinking”) ]

If an asteroid like that were to hit the earth the left will be pinning for the days of when a few degrees C per century is the only thing they would have to worry about....


13 posted on 08/18/2017 4:36:42 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: COBOL2Java
A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth on Sept. 1

It's going to eat grass?

Apparently. It does resemble a cow. Perhaps cows evolved elsewhere in the universe and arrived on earth in this manner.

Image result for space cow gif

14 posted on 08/18/2017 4:37:30 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: glennaro

LOL,grin


15 posted on 08/18/2017 4:38:34 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: piroque

Global Warming is causing it to expand.


16 posted on 08/18/2017 4:41:42 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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AGW. algore was right all along! </sarc>


17 posted on 08/18/2017 4:45:59 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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The asteroid, named for Florence Nightingale, was first spotted in 1981, and the flyby in September will be the closest it’s come to Earth since 1890.

"Hey Florence, good news! They're naming an asteroid after you!"

"Well, that's nice."

"Bad news - it's three miles wide and when it impacts the Earth it's gonna wipe out every man, woman, child, and animal life down to the cockroaches and the slime mold."

"Well, at least they'll remember me, dear."

18 posted on 08/18/2017 4:52:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Graze

verb (used with object), grazed, grazing.

1.to touch or rub lightly in passing.

2.to scrape the skin from; abrade: The bullet just grazed his shoulder.

verb (used without object), grazed, grazing.

3.to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing: to graze against a rough wall.

noun
4.a touching or rubbing lightly in passing.
5.a slight scratch, scrape, or wound made in passing; abrasion.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/graze

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"Dubbed ‘Florence,’ the space rock will pass 4.4 million miles from our planet"


19 posted on 08/18/2017 4:55:37 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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Graze? More stupid reporter tricks.


20 posted on 08/18/2017 4:57:42 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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