Posted on 08/18/2020 9:13:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Sunday (Aug. 16), the asteroid, initially labeled ZTF0DxQ and now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG, swooped by Earth at a mere 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) away.
The flyby wasn't expected and took many by surprise. In fact, the Palomar Observatory didn't detect the zooming asteroid until about six hours after the object's closest approach. "The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the sun," Paul Chodas, the director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider.
The close flyby was also a fast one, as 2020 QG swooped near Earth at a blistering 27,600 mph (44,400 kph). The object is about the size of a compact car, perhaps about 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) in diameter.
According to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, 2020 QG flew over the Pacific Ocean, far east of Australia, during its close approach. To explore the daredevil asteroid for yourself, you can check out NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's small-body database browser here.
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How could they possibly know that?
“Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.”
Was it the size of a Yugo or a 1958 Buick Roadmaster?
Sneaky rock came out of the sun. “Bandit at 12 O’clock High!”
Lol, with the pedal to the metal.
“How could they possibly know that?”
All history prior to the advent of O is now null and void. This is why today’s “experts” and “scientists” keep discovering things that have been known for hundreds of years all over again, and the LSM announces the “discoveries “ as if they are shocked and amazed - so we should be too.
With the world gone so far to hell, do you get so nostalgic that you’d give your eye teeth to own that thing? I do.
I wonder.
Should we destroy meteors of this approximate size?
That would, arguably, make us responsible for the damage caused by it’s remnants. But would we have the defence of showing what would have happened if we didn’t act?
Fascinating...,
It was a 67 Galaxy.
When I was 8-11, anything that sneakily zoomed in out of the sun was assumed to be a zero...
When I was a kid my folks had a 67 galaxy.
I grew up on Charlie Chan. I loved him. Now, he’s a thought crime.
A Mercury Meteor?
Charlie Chan is terrific!
Assaults on him shall fail.
(Great performances by Mantan and Keye Luke too.)
Thankfully it wasn’t a Chevy Nova.
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