Posted on 11/08/2018 5:00:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
The first of which, Asteroid 2018 VS1, will skim our planet by 861,700 miles at around 2.03pm on Saturday.
Experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California believe that its size could be anything from 12ft to 91ft meters wide. The asteroid isn’t in danger of hitting Earth, but if it did the consequences could be a wee bit scary. The second asteroid is comparable in size and speed to Asteroid VS1 but it will pass at a much safer distance of 3.12 million miles away.
However, the third will come much closer. Asteroid VX1 will pass Earth at around 6.21pm on Saturday and will miss us by just 237,037 miles. Which is closer to us than the moon. ‘As they orbit the Sun, Near-Earth Objects can occasionally approach close to Earth,’ warned the American space agency. ‘Note that a ‘close’ passage astronomically can be very far away in human terms: millions or even tens of millions of kilometres.’
If that wasn’t enough, the spooky skull-shaped asteroid that passed by on Halloween is coming back round for another pass on Sunday. It’s officially called 2015 TB145 and last zoomed by on October 31, 2015, coming within 302,000 miles of our planet, which is about 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the moon. The ominous object is literally the ghost of a comet which was killed by the Sun It is thought to be a ‘dead comet’ which has been radically altered by orbiting our star for millions of years and is up to 2,300ft wide.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
It is similar to seeing an aircraft’s lights at night off in the distance. Can you tell the wingspan of the aircraft ?
In our modern, technologically advanced world, those things are not used anymore.
Due to greed, we are now consigned to two widths of shoe. Narrow and Wide. Sometimes there is only one width.
And if its conductive it could be “reflecting” 300% of the light hitting it like a giant arc lamp.
“..12ft to 91ft meters wide.”
“..distance of 3.12 million miles away.”
“.. tens of millions of kilometers.”
“.. within 302,000 miles.”
Boy, this science talk is really confusing, it must take years of college to learn how to sort this all out.
Naaah, I’m preparing for the past, I like it better.
#26 That clears it up for me :)
That's the unit of measure we use when we want to crash a Mars Lander.
Calculus.
There is no weight in space.
Run Forest, run!
Stopped reading at that sentence.
I just got done placing plywood over my windows.
What happens here as the value of C approaches 0?
CA...
“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky
and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this
an effect of, perhaps, of global warming, or is this just
some meteoric occasion?” - CNN’s Deborah Feyerick
Infinity sometimes happens
Rusty: Hey, ya’ got Pac Man?
Cousin Dale: No.
Rusty: Ya’ got Space Invaders?
Cousin Dale: Nope.
Rusty: Ya’ got Asteroids?
Cousin Dale: Naw, but my dad does. Can’t even sit on the toilet some days.
“Get me Bruce Willis on Line One, Stat!”
If that wasn’t enough, the spooky skull-shaped asteroid that passed by on Halloween is coming back round for another pass on Sunday.
Had me worried for a minute until I saw it was Halloween
2015.
An earth crossing asteroid with a period of 9 days would have been unusual.
Or it could be tomorrow. No way to know.
“While rocks raining from space are scary and there is no way to completely eliminate their threat, they are also thankfully sporadic. Your odds of getting killed by a meteorite are roughly 1 in 250,000. You are far more likely to die in an earthquake, tornado, flood, airplane crash, or car crash (but less likely to be killed by lightning). “
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