Cue the Classics IV.
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Posted on 10/20/2015 6:36:56 PM PDT by Jed Eckert
A newly discovered asteroid larger than a skyscraper will wiz past the Earth on Halloween, making a dangerously close approach to the planet.
The asteroid, officially named 2015 TB145, was just discovered on Oct. 10, 2015, and is expected to make its close approach to the Earth at the end of the month.
Some have already given the asteroid the nickname of "Spooky" due to the fact that it's closest approach to Earth is going to occur on Halloween.
Fortunately, the asteroid will miss the Earth, but it will still make an uncomfortably close approach of 302,885 miles. To put this in perspective, the average distance from the Earth to the moon is 238,900 miles..........
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If it hit Mecca, however...
If it hit the ocean the tsunami wouldn’t be trivial either.
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Yer s’posta be scared real bad!
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I got close to 350k out of a ‘65 mustang, and lots of those were the hard miles of an immature American male behind the wheel.
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They shoulda ordered that thing with more corrosion protection.
The Moon is not in a geosynchronous orbit. For that to be the case the Moon’s revolution would have to match the Earth rotation, i.e., the Moon would travel a path that kept it continuously above the same point on Earth.
Twinkling, or to use the astronomical term, scintillation, is a product of the atmosphere, not the observed body. With clear, cold air scintillation is minimal, but given an atmosphere that is thermally unstable, all objects twinkle. Planets however, are actually tiny discs rather than a point light source, so in marginally unstable air, their scintillation averaged out over a larger area, so they appear to less twinkly.
Sorry, I am not an astrophysicist I just like to play one on Free Republic!
I am also not a mathematician. Nor capable of grade school level division.
Damn Common Core!
That makes sense since they are not the source but a reflection of the source which also twinkles from a very far distance! LOL I see double so I see lots of stars.
Venus has actually been visible after sunrise. DH pointed it out to me about 8 AM the other day in full daylight. First time I have seen that!
What a pity.
If one hits anywhere in particular...
Deep space probes can put down on
an asteroid ... add a little push to speed up or
slow down...lots of computational power in
super computers...
as an engineer once said...it only takes
time and money.
Do you realize that every planet in the solar system would EASILY fit between the Earth and the moon???
When I was traveling for Chilton Book Company, I drove a Ford Ranger and sold it with 357,000 miles on it.....with the original exhaust system still intact!!!!!!
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