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...NASA alert as TWO asteroids to make ‘close approach’ to Earth on Sunday...
The Sun UK ^ | Simon Chandler

Posted on 11/24/2018 4:57:35 PM PST by BenLurkin

At around 12.14 in the afternoon, it will come as close as 15 lunar distances, which is 15-times the distance from the Earth to the Moon (or about 3.7 million miles).

TWO asteroids are set to drift uncomfortably close to the Earth on Sunday, with the pair of objects passing the planet within five hours of each other.

The largest of the asteroids is estimated to have a diameter as long as 120 metres, making it bigger than most football pitches.

What's exciting this time around, however, is that the largest (sexily named "2009 WB105") has an estimated diameter of between 53 and 120 metres, so even at its smallest possible size it will still be bigger than an Olympic swimming pool.

It will also be faster than the three asteroids from a fortnight ago, travelling at 18.88 kilometres per second, or 64,800 kilometres per hour (about 40,000 miles per hour).

NASA's Close Approach Data makes clear, we'll witness a total of 19 near-Earth objects before January 9th alone, meaning that it could be only a matter of time before our planet collides with another celestial body.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2009wb105; asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; notmyfault; science
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1 posted on 11/24/2018 4:57:35 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The church of perpetual panic is at it again.

“Uncomfortably close?” “Only a matter of time before a collision”?

One of these objects landing within a mile of you would be unpleasant. Any further away you’d hear it, maybe get a shake or two through the ground, but no catastrophic stuff.

Do I ever weary of this constant doomsaying.


2 posted on 11/24/2018 5:05:34 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: BenLurkin
NASA's Close Approach Data makes clear, we'll witness a total of 19 near-Earth objects before January 9th alone, meaning that it could be only a matter of time before our planet collides with another celestial body.

To think that such an event is anything more....or less...than a matter of time is beyond stupid.
The only thing MORE stupid is to think we can avoid it from happening.

3 posted on 11/24/2018 5:08:42 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Don W

4 posted on 11/24/2018 5:10:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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5 posted on 11/24/2018 5:11:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The thing that bothers them the most is that they cant come up with a way to blame Capitalism for them!!


6 posted on 11/24/2018 5:12:01 PM PST by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.

7 posted on 11/24/2018 5:13:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: BenLurkin
"At around 12.14 in the afternoon, it will come as close as 15 lunar distances, which is 15-times the distance from the Earth to the Moon (or about 3.7 million miles)."

15 L.D. How exciting. The one that passed by on Nov. 19 was at .03 Lunar Distance.

"NASA's Close Approach Data makes clear, we'll witness a total of 19 near-Earth objects before January 9th alone, meaning that it could be only a matter of time before our planet collides with another celestial body.

While true, only a few of them are even passing reasonably close to be of concern.

2018 WD 2018-Nov-24 4.5 LD 13.6 50
2009 WB105 2018-Nov-25 15.2 LD 18.9 71
2018 VT7 2018-Nov-25 8.2 LD 2.3 10
2008 WD14 2018-Nov-27 7.4 LD 9.3 93
2001 WO15 2018-Nov-28 13.6 LD 11.7 107
2018 VE4 2018-Nov-30 15 LD 4.8 30
2018 WN 2018-Dec-01 14.9 LD 4.4 17
2018 TG6 2018-Dec-02 3.9 LD 1.4 13
2013 VX4 2018-Dec-09 4.1 LD 6.6 65

8 posted on 11/24/2018 5:15:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: southernerwithanattitude

Or global warming, or cooling or whatever it’s called this week.


9 posted on 11/24/2018 5:17:44 PM PST by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: BenLurkin

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20 m (66 ft) near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000[5]–69,000 km/h or 40,000[5]–42,900 mph).[6][7] It quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away. It was observed over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics. Some eyewitnesses also felt intense heat from the fireball.

Due to its high velocity and shallow angle of atmospheric entry, the object exploded in an air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast, at a height of around 29.7 km (18.5 mi; 97,000 ft).[7][8] The explosion generated a bright flash, producing a hot cloud of dust and gas that penetrated to 26.2 km (16.3 mi), and many surviving small fragmentary meteorites, as well as a large shock wave. The bulk of the object’s energy was absorbed by the atmosphere, with a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact estimated from infrasound and seismic measurements to be equivalent to the blast yield of 400–500 kilotons of TNT (about 1.4–1.8 PJ) range – 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.[9]


10 posted on 11/24/2018 5:20:16 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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We get a major impact every 6,000 years, on average.

Daniel Moreau Barringer, the company's founder, was the first to identify the Crater, located near Flagstaff, Arizona, as a meteorite impact site. He founded the company more than 100 years ago, and his descendants own and operate the company as a privately held business, with each of the eight branches of his family -- most now in the fourth generation -- represented on the board of directors.

Barringer Crater

11 posted on 11/24/2018 5:23:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: UCANSEE2
...was at .03 Lunar Distance.

About 7k miles? When did that one go by, I missed it.

12 posted on 11/24/2018 5:24:37 PM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: BenLurkin

There is a wall joke there somewhere.

I leave it for the more clever FReepers to actually formulate it.


13 posted on 11/24/2018 5:31:59 PM PST by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: BenLurkin

at this point in my life, I say let ‘em hit.


14 posted on 11/24/2018 5:38:13 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wormwood


15 posted on 11/24/2018 5:41:14 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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16 posted on 11/24/2018 5:44:47 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: BenLurkin

Not my fault.


17 posted on 11/24/2018 6:24:26 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BenLurkin
I find that the Command strips are far superior to hanging pictures on walls then driving nails, tacks and other hole-inducing items into your wall that must then later be plastered and re-painted.

There are now heavy duty Command strips for all your hanging needs.

18 posted on 11/24/2018 6:29:48 PM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: BenLurkin

“(sexily named “2009 WB105”) “

Love that dry British wit!


19 posted on 11/24/2018 6:31:47 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/nerd.wav


20 posted on 11/24/2018 6:43:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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