Posted on 10/20/2017 12:22:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
AN ASTEROID will hurtle towards Earth today – just one week after another dangerously close encounter.
The newly-discovered space rock – named Asteroid 2017 TD6 – is expected to zoom past our planet at around at around 7.53pm.
It will be travelling at a distance of 191,000km away from civilisation.
According to NASA the chunk of rock is a whopping 22m wide.
Last week another asteroid made a close shave with Earth, as it soared past at a distance of just 27,000 miles above the surface.
And experts have warned a second bus-sized asteroid will zoom past our planet again today at half the distance between the Earth and the moon.
But thankfully, experts predict there is no threat of it hitting out planet.
The asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii last Wednesday.
After today's near-miss, 2017 TD6 will then pass by the moon tomorrow at 6.06am.
Its next pass with Earth is predicted to be on May 29 2018.
While 2017 TD6 is expected to miss our planet, if it did hit Earth, experts believe it would be worst than the impact of the 59ft asteroid that hit the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013.
That particular blast injured around 1,500 people, and damaged over 7,000 buildings.
The passing comes just a week after asteroid 2012 TC4 flew by at just one-eighth of the distance between Earth and the moon.
During its journey, the asteroid narrowly missed communications satellites orbiting 22,236 miles above Earth.
But in one of its next passes with Earth, experts suggest that 2012 TC4 may not miss.
The near-misses coincide with end of the world fears.
Doomsayers believe a huge alien world called Nibiru or Planet X is hurtling through space towards us – and will hit tomorrow.
The planet will cause devastation on Earth with a direct hit or catastrophic near miss, believers warn.
22 meters = HoHum
22 kilometers = ELE
Time change.................
No, but he did put a lot of gratuitous sex into his sci-fi novels..........
Depends if its a stony or irony meteorite....................
The world CANNOT end tomorrow. I have plans.
CC
“But it’s only a day away!”
Thanks, now I have that insipid song stuck in my head!
CC
“Gratuitous sex”?
Is that like one of those remote controlled, vibrating posterior robots?
Cause if it is, you’re gonna get in big trouble here.
I was just standing there trying to understand what the heck a machine like that could be used for, and I almost got the zot.
It was almost like when I stuck the car key in the electrical outlet.
Been done before. Noah's flood, the plagues of Egypt. Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovksy, 1950.
It’s best not to write articles when hungry.
Just a coincidence?
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So, the world is ending tomorrow?
I hope it waits until after the Bama-Tennessee game. I’m really looking forward to that one.
Thanks Red Badger. Looks like some nitwit added "fake" and "fakenews" to the keywords, sure hope nothing happens to the silly bastard.
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In the event of a collision, there’s a 71 percent chance that the asteroid will strike the ocean. How dangerous is that?
Did La Palma go quiet? Guess they needed a new disaster story.
Given its size, not that much. Some worry about a tsunami risk, but the fact is, the Pacific and Indian Oceans have been under-monitored for a long time (and still are, although the Australia region space watch is excellent), and impacts of that size happen, on average, every 50 years or less, and there haven’t been any unexplained devastating tsunamis.
I think they gave the dimension as 22 meters? The Barringer Crater object was perhaps five times that — but in all three dimensions, thus, 125 times the mass (give or take composition). One wouldn’t want to be under it, should this happen, and the similar size of the Chelyabinsk meteor (which blew 18 miles up) showed what kind of widespread but minor damage can result, but the short answer is, probably not much.
Would not surprise me if it was part of the main mass.
Along a particular orbit, there is debris strewn all across the path as chunks break off and get left behind.
These eventually become meteors.....................
“Stars Fell On Alabama”
We lived our little drama
We kissed in a field of white
And stars fell on Alabama
Last night
I can’t forget the glamor
Your eyes held a tender light
While stars fell on Alabama
Last night
I never planned in my imagination
A situation so heavenly
A fairy land where no one else could enter
And in the center just you and me
My heart beat like a hammer
My arms wound around you tight
And stars fell on Alabama
Last night
We lived our drama
We kissed in a field of white
And stars fell on Alabama
Last night
I can’t forget the glamor
Your eyes held a tender light
And stars fractured ‘Bama
Last night
I never planned in my imagination
A situation so heavenly
A fairy land where no one else could enter
And in the center just you and me
My heart beat just like a hammer
Arms wound around you tight
While stars fell on Alabama
Last night
That looks ‘fake’.......................
Great post!
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