Posted on 11/25/2018 10:55:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
NASA sources revealing that the space rock could end up engaged in not one, but a staggering 62 different potential impact trajectories with our planet each of them waiting to sling the asteroid toward Earth over the next 100 years.
Known as asteroid 2018 LF16...
The first of these unnerving opportunities arises just five years from now occurring on August 8, 2023. Other potential impact dates in the near future fall on August 3, 2024, and on August 1, 2025.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Can someone please explain how this thing ever gets closer than about 11 million miles from earth in its current orbit?
Considered as a pair of two-body dynamic systems, you cant. But if this thing gets close enough to another heavenly body (Mars?) you then have a three-body problem - which is notoriously difficult to solve in closed form. In such case you could see the orbit of this thing changed - and its perihelion reduced.
Wow, 700 feet across, nice! The object that produced Barringer Crater was about one-eighth that size (figuring in three dimensions).
Whoops! 151 times larger -- Barringer Crater's impactor was only 40 meters across.
Seeing 2023 will be President Trump’s downward swing, they will start blaming him now.
Give Mueller something else to phony up
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