"Shock as NASA confirms asteroid TWO MILES wide will pass close to Earth in 48 HOURS"

[Delta4Embassy]

Shock as NASA confirms asteroid TWO MILES wide will pass close to Earth in 48 HOURS

"Quarter the size of Mt. Everest..."


Check a NEO site almost every morning without fail watching for this sort of thing, that I didn't write about this until now is indicative of the non-event this is.

It's gonna "pass by" 65+ LDs away (1 LD = 384,000KM) So in actuality it's not gonna be anywhere near us.

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

Scroll down to bottom of page or so for the list of NEO fly-bys.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We should name it Obama and hope it causes less damage to the USA than its namesake

 

[Spinster]

This has been predicted countless times before, and each time it has been a bust. Complete hype on slow news days. Locally, in April 2014, we did have an entire mountain slide off, unannounced, killing scores of people and massive destruction. Obummer even flew out for it. How many times has the media reported we're in direct path of a meteor hit, or earthquake, or the entire west coast is about to fall of the continent into the Pacific? Must be a slow news day.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

This has been predicted countless times before, and each time it has been a bust. Complete hype on slow news days. Locally, in April 2014, we did have an entire mountain slide off, unannounced, killing scores of people and massive destruction. Obummer even flew out for it. How many times has the media reported we're in direct path of a meteor hit, or earthquake, or the entire west coast is about to fall of the continent into the Pacific? Must be a slow news day.

Every 'shooting star' is an asteroid 'hitting the planet' or just skipping off our atmosphere and back out. But asteroids hit us every day as the 'fireball sky monitoring' thing checks for. Every night a dozen or several dozen impacts occur. And just about once a week a minivan sized one hits with atomic bomb level intensity.

It's a real threat. Ask the Russians in Cherbylinksk (s).

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Shock as NASA confirms asteroid TWO MILES wide will pass close to Earth in 48 HOURS

"Quarter the size of Mt. Everest..."


Check a NEO site almost every morning without fail watching for this sort of thing, that I didn't write about this until now is indicative of the non-event this is.

It's gonna "pass by" 65+ LDs away (1 LD = 384,000KM) So in actuality it's not gonna be anywhere near us.

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

Scroll down to bottom of page or so for the list of NEO fly-bys.

When you're talking about the vastness of space this is a near miss.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Shock as NASA confirms asteroid TWO MILES wide will pass close to Earth in 48 HOURS

"Quarter the size of Mt. Everest..."


Check a NEO site almost every morning without fail watching for this sort of thing, that I didn't write about this until now is indicative of the non-event this is.

It's gonna "pass by" 65+ LDs away (1 LD = 384,000KM) So in actuality it's not gonna be anywhere near us.

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

Scroll down to bottom of page or so for the list of NEO fly-bys.

When you're talking about the vastness of space this is a near miss.

Well it's mor elike because it's crossing our orbital path that makes it a potential threat regardless of the distance. It's 'close in astronomical terms' like Mars is close. but it's 65 times further away than the Moon. It's like if you imagine an animation showing our orbit around the Sun on a line, Earth goes by then way the hell behind us it does.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

I've made threads about ones that were really close, less than 1 LD. This is a non-event.

 

[Spinster]

This has been predicted countless times before, and each time it has been a bust. Complete hype on slow news days. Locally, in April 2014, we did have an entire mountain slide off, unannounced, killing scores of people and massive destruction. Obummer even flew out for it. How many times has the media reported we're in direct path of a meteor hit, or earthquake, or the entire west coast is about to fall of the continent into the Pacific? Must be a slow news day.

Every 'shooting star' is an asteroid 'hitting the planet' or just skipping off our atmosphere and back out. But asteroids hit us every day as the 'fireball sky monitoring' thing checks for. Every night a dozen or several dozen impacts occur. And just about once a week a minivan sized one hits with atomic bomb level intensity.

It's a real threat. Ask the Russians in Cherbylinksk (s).

Unhuh. Those dozens of shooting stars you speak of hitting in the night actually burn up before or as they enter the earth's atmosphere. Read a bit of science and forget the sensationalism. It's so unattractive and boyish.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

This has been predicted countless times before, and each time it has been a bust. Complete hype on slow news days. Locally, in April 2014, we did have an entire mountain slide off, unannounced, killing scores of people and massive destruction. Obummer even flew out for it. How many times has the media reported we're in direct path of a meteor hit, or earthquake, or the entire west coast is about to fall of the continent into the Pacific? Must be a slow news day.

Every 'shooting star' is an asteroid 'hitting the planet' or just skipping off our atmosphere and back out. But asteroids hit us every day as the 'fireball sky monitoring' thing checks for. Every night a dozen or several dozen impacts occur. And just about once a week a minivan sized one hits with atomic bomb level intensity.

It's a real threat. Ask the Russians in Cherbylinksk (s).

Unhuh. Those dozens of shooting stars you speak of hitting in the night actually burn up before or as they enter the earth's atmosphere. Read a bit of science and forget the sensationalism. It's so unattractive and boyish.

Sutter's Mill meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"A consortium of over 50 scientists investigated the circumstances of the impact and the properties of the meteorites.[9] The event was recorded by two infrasound monitoring stations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s International Monitoring System.[21] The preliminary analysis are indicative of energy yield of approximately 4 kilotons of TNT equivalent.[21] Hiroshima's "Little Boy" had a yield of about 16 kt. The meteoroid was probably between the size of a dish washer[22] and a mini van.[23] The air burst had approximate coordinates of 37°36′N 120°30′W / 37.6°N 120.5°W / 37.6; -120.5."

That wasn't over Russia or someone we don't like, that was over California 3 or so years ago.

"Though dinosaur-killing impacts are rare, large asteroids routinely hit the Earth. In the visualization above, you can see the location of 26 space rocks that slammed into our planet between 2000 and 2013, each releasing energy equivalent to that of some of our most powerful nuclear weapons.

The video comes from the B612 Foundation, an organization that wants to build and launch a telescope that would spot civilization-ending asteroids to give humans a heads up in trying to deflect them. To figure out where asteroids were hitting our planet, B612 used data from a worldwide network of instruments that detect infrasound, low-frequency sound waves traveling through the atmosphere. Such measurements have been used since the 1950s to detect nuclear bomb explosions and can also pick up the tremendous burst of a bolide tearing through our atmosphere.

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates the network, recently released the location of these asteroid strikes, which gives scientists another datapoint in understanding the frequency with which these events happen. In recent years, there has been a growing consensus that the Earth gets hit by enormous space rocks more often than we previously thought. The 26 strikes in the video above were each between 1 and 600 kilotons. For comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima exploded with an energy of 16 kilotons, and the U.S.’s most powerful nuclear weapon, the B83 bomb, has a yield of up to 1.2 megatons. Of course, comparing asteroids to nuclear bombs is a bit misleading; asteroids generate a moving shockwave that can cause far more destruction than the rock itself.

Just to dial back your ever-increasing sense of anxiety here–asteroid impacts are almost always harmless. A Hiroshima-scale asteroid explosion happens in our atmosphere on average once a year and yet we’re all still here. Moreover, asteroids can’t aim themselves at populated centers. Most of the Earth’s surface is water and even a large percentage of land is fairly uninhabited by humans. Though B612’s Ed Lu mentions in the video that only “blind luck” is preventing a catastrophic city-size space rock from killing us, keep in mind that blind luck has actually been serving us fairly well so far.

Still, the well-publicized explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia last year serves as a reminder that these events can be quite destructive. It would do us good to be on the lookout for them."
A Map of Every Nuke-Scale Asteroid Strike From the Last Decade

Usual MIRV warhead on current ICBMs is 400 kilotons.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

And the nightly itty bitties you seem to think are burning up,

Peekskill meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Peekskill meteorite is among the most historic meteorite events on record.[1] Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere, whereupon it struck a parked car in Peekskill, New York"

Meteorite Hits House In Louisiana

"Meteorite Hits House In Louisiana

On September 23, 2003, a meteorite fell out of the sky and hit a house in New Orleans, Louisiana. An article about the meteorite fall appeared in the Times-Picayune on September 27: "

 

[aris2chat]

aren't we lucky it was not 48 minutes notice

When they know it will be a direct hit, an hour to call or text loved ones would be nice. We don't need to be scared by the almost hits if there is nothing we can do about them.

Some news is best left unsaid.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

If this was newsworthy, and a '...shock...'

2000 FL10
Oct 10

65.7 LD

1.9 km

then what about this?

2003 EB50
Nov 29

48.8 LD

2.2 km

Bigger, closer, more shocking.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

These big kilometer-sized tumblers are passing us by all the time in point of fact. And being so big they're easier to spot and come as no surprise. It's the little ones that have a tendency of sneaking up on us. And while a weekly-sized impacter the size of a minivan is no threat to the species, it is a threat to whereever it lands having a low-kiloton equivilent impact energy.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

While's there's truth to being hit by a big rock is bad enough, but shattering it and being hit by many is worse I'd mention you can survive being peppered by birdshot center-mass. Not likely gonna being hit by a deer sabot slug.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

aren't we lucky it was not 48 minutes notice

When they know it will be a direct hit, an hour to call or text loved ones would be nice. We don't need to be scared by the almost hits if there is nothing we can do about them.

Some news is best left unsaid.

Yeah, that's not enough time to get Bruce Willis and his friends to train for an emergency mission to destroy it by drilling a hole and dropping a nuke inside. We need to spot these things much sooner if we expect Bruce Willis to save us by sacrificing himself so Ben Affleck can marry his daughter and live happily ever after on an Earth that narrowly averted total destruction. We need enough time to allow Bruce Willis.....

 

[Iron Head]

Too bad we cannot throw Delta on that fucking thing and ship his weird ass off to the other side of the Galaxy.

 

[Rozman]

This might be the next big thing for Al Gore....
He can say that this one or one just like it will hit us if we don't do something about climate change.... lol

 

[Blackrook]

I don't worry about asteroids hitting earh and destroying the Earth with a massive flood because:

God promised to Noah he would not flood the world again.

People are going to think that's a stupid reason but it's good enough for me.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

This might be the next big thing for Al Gore....
He can say that this one or one just like it will hit us if we don't do something about climate change.... lol

Appoco-terrorism is the next step for Leftists, I agree.

 

[westwall]

This has been predicted countless times before, and each time it has been a bust. Complete hype on slow news days. Locally, in April 2014, we did have an entire mountain slide off, unannounced, killing scores of people and massive destruction. Obummer even flew out for it. How many times has the media reported we're in direct path of a meteor hit, or earthquake, or the entire west coast is about to fall of the continent into the Pacific? Must be a slow news day.

Yes, but unlike global warming which is a complete fraud, the fact is a asteroid WILL hit the Earth again. It's simple odds. A big one has the ability to end civilization as we know it and an even bigger one can end life. Man is the first creature that has evolved on this planet with the ability to prevent that sort of disaster from happening. Instead of wasting the countless billions upon billions of dollars that we are wasting on the global warming fraud, we should be pouring money into NASA and developing a asteroid defense system.