Massive 4 Vesta Asteroid Is Zooming by Earth, and Here's How You Can Spot It

Inverse.com ^ | June 28, 2018 | By Josie Rhodes Cook on

[katana]

300 miles wide? Lucky miss. Impact of something that sized would produce a mass extinction.

[PLMerite]

"Massive 4 Vesta Asteroid Is Zooming by Earth, and Here's How You Can Spot It"

Just look up:

[babyfreep]

Ohh...let’s check this out.

[Simon Green]

300 miles wide? Lucky miss. Impact of something that sized would produce a mass extinction.

An impactor of that size would sterilize the Earth. Not even bacteria would survive.

[Simon Green]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. There's three guys marooned off there, if memory serves. ;^) Ping to APoD list.

[null and void]

Fortunately they had water to throw away!

[doorgunner69]

Ah, well, I made it to my 70th birthday, so it is all gravv now.

[BenLurkin]

Surf’s up, dude!

[txnativegop]

cloudy tonight

but I have a week or two to take a look

Thanks for posting BenLurkin

[no-to-illegals]

No trip to outer space required to repelll or break in half ? That’s good cause we are out of heroes that we can spare. The Donald is too busy !!!

[piytar]

Did some quick math. If it Earth dead on, the impact would be about 223 sextillion megatons. It would quite literally shatter the planet.

[no-to-illegals]

Hey it’s a shooting gallery fellow targets. Don’t go painting no bullseyes, please

[pas]

I don’t go to mass anyway.

[Red Badger]

Yes, and one of them discovered the ‘Anopticon’...............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary_(short_story)

[Conan the Librarian]

“Hoping that it posted to both you guys”

I have been thinking of these two short stories ever since I started reading about this Vesta pass. Thanks!

I do wish they would hire better writers for these things though.

[elbook]

even asteroids that come withing the distance of the lunar orbit (~200,000 miles) has only a chance in a million of hitting earth.

106 million miles ...

Slow news day

[BenLurkin]

It’s astronomy, FRiend.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, and one of them discovered the ‘Anopticon’

Well, the discoverer and inventor had died in the incident -- one of the three survivors had held onto the object as a souvenir without realizing it had value. :^)