Posted on 02/17/2016 2:03:07 AM PST by djf
Asteroid TX68 is coming!
OK, it's probably gonna miss... but maybe not!
Asteroid TX68, from it's name 2013 TX68 was discovered in 2013. It is supposed to approach closer than anything else recently, at .044 times the Lunar distance, or about 11,000 miles.
Not sure why they use LD as a measurement because LD changes all the time, but so it goes...
Comments or thoughts are always appreciated!
That would be like saying that if you are standing in an empty parking lot, a car is going to drive past you at 100mph. The car will pass by anywhere from 6 feet away from you to 1 mile away from you.
How could the measurements be so imprecise that the range is 8,989,000 miles, but they do know for sure that it will be at least 11,000 away from us?
The earth has a gravitational pull. One of these things will hit us someday.
All the trillions wasted on global warming hysteria will then be meaningless. We should have spent that money and future money on asteroid and comet defenses. That tech would have other beneficial uses, just like the moon missions.
The government assures us it is safe. It is only going to get within 11,000 miles (with a margin of error on that of about 9 MILLION miles.) So they know exactly where it is going, to within 9 MILLION miles, and it is going to miss Earth by exactly 11 thousand miles.
We're screwed.
Come on. You trust NASA on global warming, don’t you?
“Nuke it from orbit. . .it’s the only way to be sure”
Planet X?
Probably won’t be visible due to chemtrails.
They use LD because half of this country never heard of the moon, and think an asteroid is a medical issue.
Great practice target for attempting a redirect that might be needed on one that’s got Earth in a bullseye in the future.
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