The passing asteroid is thought to be 60 to 140 feet (19 to 43 meters) wide. Sixty feet is the estimated width of the asteroid that broke apart roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) above Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013, injuring hundreds of people.
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Posted on 03/04/2014 5:17:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
The space rock known as 2014 DX110 is due to make its closest approach at about 4 p.m. ET Wednesday — at a distance of about 216,000 miles (345,600 kilometers), or roughly 90 percent of the moon's orbital distance.
The passing asteroid is thought to be 60 to 140 feet (19 to 43 meters) wide. Sixty feet is the estimated width of the asteroid that broke apart roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) above Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013, injuring hundreds of people.
The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0, based in Italy, will air a webcast about 2014 DX110 at 3:30 p.m. ET.
Slooh.com also will try to track the asteroid with its telescope in the Canary islands, starting at 4 p.m. ET, for a program that will be broadcast via Slooh's website and iPad app. However, Slooh's Patrick Paolucci said "there is a high probability we will not capture the asteroid during the broadcast," due to uncertainties about the asteroid's position.
bet the news media will say the meteor was caused by the global warming hoax (capitalism did it )
Bush’s fault...
The passing asteroid is thought to be 60 to 140 feet (19 to 43 meters) wide. Sixty feet is the estimated width of the asteroid that broke apart roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) above Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013, injuring hundreds of people.
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> 50,000 years ago, a chunk of nickel iron about 150 feet (50 meters) wide... weighed 300,000 tons and traveled at a speed of 26,000 miles per hour (12 kilometers per second)... Millions of tons of limestone and sandstone were blasted out of the crater... When the dust settled, what remained was a crater three-quarters of a mile (about 1 kilometer) wide and 750 feet deep.
http://www.barringercrater.com/about/history_1.php
This is likely a piece of that debris field I spoke of. The parent body is sc heduled to zip across our orbital path soon and we will fly through the current path (and the accumulated debris from several other previous passes) in late May.
FWIW, if you go to Google Maps street level view, it’ll take you right down into Meteor (Barringer) crater. The views are spectacular.
That happened with the last one too. It'll pass safely by - uh, but we can't spot it because we don't know precisely where it is.
Oooooh! Great idea!
28-sec time-lapse from SLOOH:
http://events.slooh.com/stadium/time-lapse-2014-dx110-canary-islands-march-5-2014
Thanks m.
Remember a Saturday Morning Cartoon called “Thundar the Barbarian?”
Well, by golly, they spotted it after all. I wonder how close it was to where it was expected? It’d be nice to know we are getting better at that sort of thing.
Thanks for the post.
I take it, it is the little sliver in the middle?
Yep, they track on the stars, so the object moves in relation for the duration of the exposure.
‘Glad to post it for everyone ;)
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