See the Dramatic Increase in Near-Earth Asteroids NASA Has Discovered (Video)

Space.com ^ | July 24, 2018 | Mike Wall

[SunkenCiv]

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: All Known Asteroids in the Solar System (1999-2018)

[SunkenCiv]

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[Doogle]

Trump’s fault......and the Russians

[Darksheare]

Obviously Earth hasn’t cleared it’s orbit and thus isn’t a planet.
/ Kidding

[no-to-illegals]

Taking into consideration the scale factors.... the effect would be negligible and the graphic would not appear cluttered ?

[SunkenCiv]

Collusion!!!! /s

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, Earth’s only had four and a half billion years to get ‘er done.

[Doogle]

All the signs all there....

[no-to-illegals]

I too hate when a planet refuses to clean up around itself ...

[Sirius Lee]

Don’t stare at them, Dear. You’ just attract their attention. Lock the car doors and just keep driving until we’re out of the asteroid field.

[Paladin2]

The Erf needs to be renamed as Goofy.

Former Planets have dog names.

[iowamark]

450 feet wide? I doubt that those are really anything to worry about. Meteorites hit the earth all the time. There are some claims, but no good evidence of any person being hit by one. Big asteroids are worth watching.

[mindburglar]

Was thinking the same thing. We need more gravity.

[ruiner]

For reference, the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be roughly 65ft. According to wikipedia, it is thought to have released 26-33x as much energy as the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.

[semaj]

"450 feet wide? I doubt that those are really anything to worry about."

That's easy for you to say, until you get hit on the head with one. Just sayin'.

[Don W]

1954.

Woman Hit by Meteorite

[SunkenCiv]

It's well known that a woman in Alabama (she was a beefy gal, but still) was hit by a meteorite which knocked a hole through the roof on the way in. The imbecile Carl Sagan flat-out denied that anyone else or even livestock had ever been hit by one, because the reports came from rural areas in Africa and so forth.

Meteor Crater in Arizona is 3/4 of a mile across and 1/4 mile deep, and was formed by an object about 300 feet wide. So, yes, 450 feet is worth worrying about.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. As a side note, an object a mere mile across would deliver more energy than the simultaneous explosion of all the Earth's nuclear weapons.

[SunkenCiv]

Can't argue against the name Goofy, that's for sure. :^)