Posted on 04/15/2018 5:30:02 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Hit us. We’re full of gas.
does “observable history” mean the history of asteroid observation or just all of history?
” ...observational history,...”
gotcha. thnx.
And being as bright as 13th magnitude means it was literally as bright as Pluto...
Just to keep us on our toes.
13th Magnitude? Not seeable without a lot of magnitude power devices.
Serpens? It might have taken out Argentina near the Antarctica land mass but not much else.
Oh, better luck next time.
The Russian meteor that exploded in the air in 2013 was only 20 meters, and caused damage over a city.
Yeah but what I picked up on is this asteroid was larger than Tunguska and we have all seen the damage that one caused. That one occurred over a desolate area but if one of that size were to explode above a city it would be like a small nuke absent the radioactivity.
Whatever happened to that Chinese space station?
“That’s a negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full.”
Splashdown between Tahiti and South America.
Went into the Pacific not close to Easter Island.
SMOD (sweet meteor of death) missed us again?? We need a bigger gravity pull....
Rusty: Hey, ya’ got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty: Ya’ got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty: Ya’ got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can’t even sit on the toilet some days.
It re-entered off the coast of Chile on April 1.
They don’t really have the orbital parameters nailed down yet. According to JPL the uncertainty of the semi-major axis is 232,000 miles. And it missed us by 119,000 miles. Not comforting.
*ping*
I just hope it’s not traveling in a group.
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