Posted on 07/18/2019 4:11:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Another day, another Asteroid! It was just yesterday when the news of Asteroid 2006 QV89 not hitting our Earth in september came to light. And now NASA has already detected another massive hazardous asteroid, named 2006 QQ23, that has high chances of hitting our Earth next month.
According to CNEOS, 2006 QQ23, is expected to move past Earth on August 10th at 7:23 AM ST at a distance of about 0.04977 au which is a rather shorter distance in astronomical terms. It has also been tagged as hazardous meaning it has a pretty good chance of hitting our planet if its orbit manages to intersect with our Earths orbit. The estimated diameter for the asteroid has been estimated to around 250 m - 570 m i.e. close to 1870 feet. This makes it larger in size than many popular tall skyscrapers in our world today. Also, the asteroid is much bigger in size as compared to the Chelyabinsk meteor that was approximately 66ft in size and entered Earths atmosphere over Russia back in 2013.
But, does this mean we have to worry? If we go by the history of asteroids that made headlines for hitting our Earth in the past few months, we might not have to worry so much, as these asteroids often tend to either burn off in the air or become a no-show (we're looking at you 2006 QV89) even if they manage to enter our Earths atmosphere.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.mashable.com ...
Similar but your lawn chairs need far more cushioning due to the massive extremist hyper velocity of an asteroid, compared to just super sonic speeds of ICBM nukes.
You can thank me after the BOOM!
Where’s Bruce Willis when you need him?
Dude, it’s passing 20x farther than the moon.
May God grant us protection.
What will the next AU portion be?
And when will the tectonic plates shift significantly in California?
And will the Weather Channel correctly predict the arc of movement of the biggest hurricane of the year 2019?
And when will the next MSM commentator say that Trump reminds him or her of Hitler? (That last one was a setup. Already happened as I was typing.)
Thanks for that detailed classification chart. A lot more authoritative than my musings below.
Is there a way to direct it to Chappaqua?
Always true for any asteroid or run-away freight train...
Sounds like another recent prediction from the fabulously fat prophet: Rachel Bitecofer, the assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Virginias Christopher Newport University...
RE: Creepy photo:
Realize that this is how we all appear to the Dems and Millenials. We look worse to the Squad women.
In the mirror we guys say each morning:
Hey,dude. Ya’ still got it, boy. Go get ‘em.
.....and Keith Richards.
Please, either hit DC, LA, or anywhere in the muslim sandbox world.
Take a xanax.
I think I’ll still keep showing up for work just in case THE BIG ONE doesn’t hit :)
I liked your musings. The Torino Scale works but it requires estimation and identifications. Without your musings, the Scale is like a full score of Beethoven’s 9th but no orchestra.
Not only sensationalistic but really stupid and contradictory.
“It has also been tagged as hazardous meaning it has a pretty good chance of hitting our planet if its orbit manages to intersect with our Earths orbit.”
“NASA has already detected another massive hazardous asteroid, named 2006 QQ23, that has high chances of hitting our Earth next month.”
Why is it hazardous if it’s going to be much further away than the moon? Why is there a high chance of hitting the earth?
The author is a space case.
If there was any genuine risk we would not be reading about this.
CC
Chicxulub was about 10 km.
But that was a worst case, a shallow water strike over carbonaceous rock.
CC
Or monks, in the case of my bitter half!)
Yours was the best comment yet.
The thousand years straight now of “Damn, asteroid didn’t hit today. Well, off to work again.”
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