Posted on 11/08/2018 5:00:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
Damn that reporter. Obviously ft-meter is a unit of area, not distance!
An earth crossing asteroid with a period of 9 days would be in orbit -- around the earth, possibly in an earth - moon orbit (not sure about the physics of that one!)
I do not know how big an Earth orbiting rock or chunk of ice has to be to be called a "moon".
If it was in orbit around the sun, it would be dipping
pretty close to the surface I would imagine.
We’re doooomed!
Agreed.
I always wonder about that “no chance of hitting the Earth”. There is SOME chance that an object several days out or more could be redirected slightly by some other object too small or dark to see. It’s very unlikely, but it also doesn’t take much of a bump or push when an object is along way away... That’s why diverting a threatening object is not quite as often imagined — by acting early, we DON”T have to try to blow it up when it is really close...
That “spooky” one is big enough to make quite a dent, somewhere.
Is that Uranus?
THAT is, at best, hotly debated, with most saying they actually died off EARLIER or were killed by the event, but not surviving after.
Do you have source I can read?
I'm always interested in the Chicxulub Event and aftermath, and would love more to ponder!
I've actually met and spoke with Walt Alverez. Him and his Dad are/were brilliant.
Not mine. But, it does belong to a sizable number of 'Rats.
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