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Asteroid the size of a small truck buzzes Earth: NASA
Reuters via nbcnews.com ^
| June 8, 2013
| Irene Klotz
Posted on 06/09/2013 3:40:31 AM PDT by John W
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday, the latest in a parade of visiting celestial objects that has raised awareness of potentially hazardous impacts on the planet.
NASA said Asteroid 2013 LR6 was discovered about a day before its closest approach to Earth, which occurred at 12:42 a.m. EDT (0442 GMT on Saturday) about 65,000 miles over the Southern Ocean, south of Tasmania, Australia.
The 30-foot-wide (10-meter-wide) asteroid posed no threat.
A week ago, the comparatively huge 1.7-mile-wide (2.7-km-wide) asteroid QE2, complete with its own moon in tow, passed 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) from Earth.
While on February 15, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,500 people injured by flying glass and debris. That same day, an unrelated asteroid passed just 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the networks of communication satellites that ring the planet.
"There is theoretically a collision possible between asteroids and planet Earth," astronomer Gianluca Masi, with the Virtual Telescope project, said during a Google+ webcast that showed live images of the approaching asteroid.
(Excerpt) Read more at science.nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2013lr6; catastrophism
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:40:31 AM PDT
by
John W
To: Kartographer
Asteroid buzzing-by very close Ping. Minor SHTF?
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:44:01 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: John W
"There is theoretically a collision possible between asteroids and planet Earth," "theoretically" ? ? ?
I guess he doesn't realize how stupid that sounds.
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:46:01 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Indeed. It’s even “theoretical” that Earth could explode like the fictional planet Krypton.
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:50:09 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: John W
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:51:21 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: John W
And the NSA has identified 16 separate phone calls made from the Atlanta area to this trick-sized asteroid...
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:51:58 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Disarming the sheep only emboldens the wolves.)
To: John W
"There is theoretically a collision possible between asteroids and planet Earth," astronomer Gianluca MasiOne of three scenarios here folks....
1. This is not a real astronomer.
2. This is an astronomer, and he needs to turn in his union card ASAP.
3. (and most likely) He got misquoted, and is cringing and embarrassed on an epic scale.
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:56:44 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
To: catfish1957
3. (and most likely) He got misquoted, and is cringing and embarrassed on an epic scale.
Given the state of journalism these days, that's the most likely scenario.
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:09:25 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: John W
Since when is a small truck 30 ft wide?
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:11:46 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
To: John W
———four times closer than the moon-——
I think that clumsy style book induced calculation means the path was 1/4 of the distance to the moon
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:13:29 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
To: John W
We are not alone...
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:18:12 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: John W
But, how is that Muslim outreach going? That is the administration's priority!
Get with the program, you racist bastiges!
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:27:53 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: John W
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:28:37 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(The Lefties can drink Kool-Aid; I will drink Tea. - VRW Conspirator)
To: thingumbob; amzgirl; 75thOVI; Ravenstar; June2; LuvFreeRepublic; AdvisorB; 88keys; Matchett-PI; ...
Brevard County, Florida ping. Pinged because the dateline was from the Cape. Seemed rather unusual for a story like this one.
Let me know if you want on or off this ping list.
(not associated with the county government)
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:50:19 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: Bratch
To: Redleg Duke
You forgot NASA’s quest for knowledge on the credible findings of glow-bull warming./s
To: John W
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posted on
06/09/2013 5:39:51 AM PDT
by
jaz.357
(Contrary To Ordinary)
To: Redleg Duke
NASA only spotted it because they were searching for the Moon God.
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posted on
06/09/2013 5:52:47 AM PDT
by
wrencher
To: John W
The Russian incident this year was a meteor not an asteroid.
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posted on
06/09/2013 6:53:18 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
To: John W
The 30-foot-wide asteroid posed no threat.Passed us by a whisker and "posed no threat"? What exactly would constitute a "threat" from an asteroid? A warning message transmitted from the asteroid: "Bend over, suckers!"?
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