Posted on 04/15/2020 11:22:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The asteroid 2020 GH2 will pass Earth at a range of about 223,000 miles (359,000 kilometers). The average distance from the Earth to the moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 km).
Asteroid 2020 GH2 is about between 43 and 70 feet (13-70 meters) wide, or about the size of a detached house, according to data from the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the agency's Asteroid Watch Twitter account. It was first discovered on Saturday (April 11) and is being tracked by astronomers at several observatories, including the Catalina Sky Survey at Mount Lemmon in Arizona, according to the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
That's not to say that near-Earth asteroids don't represent a potential threat to Earth. Scientists with NASA's Planetary Defense Program and around the world regularly observe the skies for new and known asteroids that might pose a danger to Earth.
Any asteroid about 500 feet (140 m) or larger with an orbit that brings it within 4.7 million miles (7.5 million km) of Earth is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, NASA officials have said. As of 2019, scientists have discovered about 19,000 near-Earth asteroids, with about 30 newfound asteroids added each week.
And if you thought the house-sized asteroid 2020 GH2 sounds big, NASA is gearing up for an even larger asteroid to fly by on April 29. On that day, the potentially hazardous asteroid 1998 OR2 will fly by Earth at a safe distance of 3.9 million miles (6.2 million km).
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Newfound asteroid the size of a house will fly safely by Earth Wednesday
How big would an asteroid have to be to hit the moon and have IT crash into Earth?
No. Not boring. Nancy Pelosi has a fear of flying houses. One fell on her sister killing her and to make things worse a white teenage girl looted her ruby red slippers off of the corpse.
If you bank the asteroid off of mars you can sink Earth into the side pocket.
That’s my point: a big rock wouldn’t have to hit Earth directly to cause big problems here.
Hey Pelosi! Wednesday would be a GREAT day for you to wear your red shiny shoes..!
Comet 2019 Y4 (ATLAS) may become very bright - See its orbit
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So another words “something that happens thousands of times a year” that is a waste of my time to give a shit about. I’m so tired of “doom porn”.
Newfound asteroid the size of a house will fly safely by Earth Wednesday
Boring.
= = =
Asteroid the size of a house fly.
But it is going really, really fast.
Maybe Bill Gates will fund a really, really, really big Swatter.
You missed the word “Safely” in the headline?
All right ... this is bugging me... I have to ask...
If ASTEROIDS come into the hemisphere...
And HEMORROIDS are on the ass...
Wouldn’t it make sense to call the things on your ass ASTEROIDS, and the things coming into the hemisphere HEMORROIDS...?
Puzzling...
Size of whose house?
Want to know if I have to worry ;-)
There has to be a Uranus joke in there somewhere...
Size of the space rock" about 300ft in diameter
So if one meets the other, guess which one will win?
The MSM says the Earth will be destroyed.
RE Uranus...
The question is... does Uranus have asteroids....
Does Uranus get threatened by hemhoroids instead of asteroids?
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