[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: Deep Space Network, JPL, NASA]

[Dem Guard]

Is this a brain scan of Obama? ;-)

[Thorliveshere]

Oh yeah. Couldn’t even see it with the naked eye. Next.

[ixtl]

Damn! That thing looks ominous. Guess we dodged another bullet.... until it assumes orbit around Earth and the shuttles start landing... (play Twilight Zone theme)...

[brytlea]

Why didn’t they get a better picture? Didn’t they have a good Nikon like me?
I also read somewhere that next time it comes (2036?) it might hit us? I don’t like that, I plan to still be alive...

[Straight Vermonter]

...a rock this large hasn't passed this close since 1976

It seems to me that this could have happened a lot of times without us knowing.

[Conan the Librarian]

I got to see it!

A couple of club members and I went out to the edge of town (helps when a member owns a construction yard).

We set up at 15in Dob and took turns watching this little chunk of charcoal just zipping along. It didn’t pass in front of any stars that we saw, but, it was close enough to many that you really got a feeling of movement.

It looked like it was the fastest moving non-manmade object I’ve seen that wasn’t burning.

Go out tonight and catch the Moon and Jupiter.
If you have a good western horizon, see if you can catch Mercury and Antares. You’ll need binoculars for this, but, it can be done.

[colorado tanker]

I heard an interview of an astrophysicist who said a colleague estimated that if this thing landed in an ocean it would raise a 70 meter tsunami. Wouldn't want to be around when something like that came ashore!