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A plane-size asteroid buzzes by Earth undetected
cnet.com ^
| July 27, 2017
| Eric Mack
Posted on 07/27/2017 10:37:31 AM PDT by John W
Astronomers first spotted an asteroid about as long as a 737 passenger jet on Sunday and analyzed its path to determine it had made a close pass by our planet three days earlier.
In other words, the big space rock slipped right by us without being detected and was only seen in our cosmic rear-view mirror.
While the asteroid, now named 2017 001, flew right on by without incident, it was a relatively close pass. It came within about one-third the distance between Earth and the moon, roughly 76,448 miles (123,031 km).
With an estimated size of between 82 and 256 feet (25 and 78 meters), it was around three times as big as the bolide that entered our atmosphere in 2013 and exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, blowing out windows and causing numerous injuries on the ground. That house-size bit of cosmic debris also had been previously undetected.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asteroid; astronomy; undetected
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:37:32 AM PDT
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John W
To: John W
Not to worry. If it had hit the Earth, we’d have detected it.
To: John W
When one hits, maybe there will be Divine Intervention and it can hit Chappaqua.
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:41:48 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
To: John W
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:41:52 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: John W
It’s those stupid Balusian sightseers again.
Probably was a keg of Balusian ale in the back.
They were probably mooning us.
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:42:33 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Billthedrill
Someone probably would have noticed!
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:46:39 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: John W
A plane sized asteroid.. are we sure it wasn't a Scientologist DC-10 from Zenu flying here from planet pop-tart?
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:53:32 AM PDT
by
GraceG
("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
To: John W
NOPE. It was a KLINGON Recon, Interplanetary Vehicle.
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:56:46 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country.)
To: John W
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posted on
07/27/2017 10:58:41 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
To: GraceG
are we sure it wasn’t a Scientologist DC-10 from Zenu flying here from planet pop-tart?
With a plane-load of souls to dump into an active volcano? Like last time?
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posted on
07/27/2017 11:05:10 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
To: John W
Velocity w.r.t. Earth estimated at 10.1 km/sec, or about 22,600 mph, or only about 30% faster than Earth escape velocity.
Source.
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posted on
07/27/2017 11:39:28 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: John W
So, which agency is supposed to monitor for such events? Find it. Replace the senior Executive and the entire staff. Tell them the stakes are high and do not make the same error again.
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posted on
07/27/2017 12:21:39 PM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(Democrats are suffering Soros psychosis. He hates America.)
To: doug from upland
Or Chicago.Finally put the place out of it’s misery.
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posted on
07/27/2017 12:26:33 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Rapscallion
They were probably hoping it’d hit to put them out of their continued never ending misery of Hellary losing.
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posted on
07/27/2017 12:33:14 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Billthedrill
Good point... We are a minute player in this vast universe of unknowable phenomena and random chance and if, or when if you prefer, some oversized planet destroying object comes in our direction our only hope will be divine intervention or no hope at all... It will come, and it will destroy us because we are not the authors of our fate within this universe. The Creator, or random chance if you prefer heathenism, will determine our continued existence... Not us.
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posted on
07/27/2017 12:41:38 PM PDT
by
jerod
(Socialism=Governance by Government - The National Socialist German Workers' Party is a good example.)
To: John W
If it was undetected, we wouldn’t be reading this article and thread.
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posted on
07/27/2017 12:48:05 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: John W
When one hits and takes out a city, then we will get serious about it. Until then party like its 1999.
We have the means to redirect these things if we see them early enough.
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posted on
07/27/2017 1:05:29 PM PDT
by
Molon Labbie
(In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
To: John W
One can’t help but notice that it was named
2017 001, there will be others.
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posted on
07/27/2017 1:18:27 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Disambiguator
The good news is we know about it now and it can be tracked.
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posted on
07/27/2017 1:28:54 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: John W
Well, someone detected it...
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posted on
07/27/2017 1:55:13 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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