Posted on 03/05/2017 8:03:05 PM PST by BenLurkin
Less than 10 feet across, asteroid 2017 EA made its closest approach at 9:04 AM EST (14:04 Universal Time) last Thursday, coming 20 times closer than the Moon, just 9,000 miles (14,500 km) over the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to a NASA statement.
The space agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which operates out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, tracks asteroids and comets that come close to the Earth and computes very precise orbits for them but did not detect this asteroid until just six hours before its closest approach to Earth.
It was first sighted by astronomers working at the Catalina Sky Survey, which is funded by NASA. Several other observatories around the world observed it between the time of its discovery and that of its closest approach.
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This was actually the second close asteroid flyby of 2017. A meteor the size of the one that exploded above Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 passed halfway as close as the Moon in January, NASA reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereporter.com ...
If it hits do we all die? Allah waiting.
Too small.
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too bad it didn’t hit the entire Congress
Rocks from God.
Maybe. But major destruction possible. Not a real confidence building alerting system. But since we have no countermeasure it likely does not matter.
Yikes.
Yuge...
This is why I file taxes in October....
On the low end of the weapon scale for asteroids. The Chelyabinsk meteoroid with a shallow trajectory disintegrated quite high and produced only a relatively mild shock over-pressure at the ground. Would a steep decent produce different results?
Waiting for Wormwood...
10 feets asteroid is nothing, will completely burn out long before hit the ground
350,000 kph vs. 100,000 ft of atmosphere doesn’t seem to compute into a long time vs human time scale perceptions.
Way too small.
NASA space data supports citizens’ observations: Meteor fireballs are increasing dramatically
https://www.sott.net/article/309988-NASA-space-data-supports-citizens-observations-Meteor-fireballs-are-increasing-dramatically
The number of reported fireballs from 2005 to 2015 has jumped from 922 to over 9,200+.
It’s why I don’t file until midnight on the 15th.
If it splits in two during entry into our atmosphere, perhaps cosmic forces could have it hit a certain house in Chappaqua and a particular rental home in D.C. That would solve a couple of problems.
Was it an asteroid or meteor which hit Siberia in 1908, flattening a huge area? Which fortunately was virtually uninhabited . The same over New York or LA and millions would be killed.
You underestimate the density and resistance of the atmosphere. The friction raises the temperature to millions of degrees, causing the asteroid explode first, then the remnants would quickly burn out.
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