Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 07/12/2018 11:26:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Two tiny asteroids sneaked safely past Earth last weekend, only to be discovered hours after they'd buzzed our planet. Asteroids 2018 NX and 2018 NW zipped past our blue-green orb at distances of just 72,000 miles and 76,000 miles, respectively. That's about one-third of the distance from the Earth to the moon.
Scientists think the asteroids both stretched between about 16 feet and 50 feet in diameter. That's relatively small for near-Earth asteroids.
Astronomers at an observatory on the Palomar Mountain range in California spotted both space rocks on Sunday, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.
Although they passed our planet in quick succession, the space rocks aren't traveling as a pair. Asteroid 2018 NW raced toward our planet about five times faster than 2018 NX.
Even though astronomers didn't know they were headed toward our planet, these small asteroids didn't pose any risk to life because of their distance to Earth. They traveled relatively nearby but nowhere near close enough to penetrate our atmosphere
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Brilliant white with green...
Build a Wall !!
Green usually indicates the presence of copper, like in electronics, so it could have been some space junk burning up.................
Nice, but that wasn’t it. I’m in central NC, and the furthest it might have been away would have been over the mid-part of the counter. Could have been one of the cluster reported though...
Yeah, I saw that and was really surprised.
I’m also surprised that according to Spaceweather.com we won’t have anything flying by us for a month.
The whole NEO system seems to be having issues.
It was awesome!!!
Probably would have been detected if they hit us!
How is it humanly possible that ALL of those Hamhocks look exactly the same?
I wonder if they give each other a hard time, “Wanda? You’re hock is about an inch too big! Skip ‘legs’ workout this week and work on those upper arms!” ;)
I suppose 10,000,000,043 asteroids could have slipped by earth in the last 24 hours if they were “undetected”.
Yup
Gee,before current technology they ALL passed us undetected! I really don’t see how knowing without the means to prevent impact is very helpful.It’s not like we can evacuate. What can they say- “France, run away!”??
What can they say- “France, run away!”??
“He has worked too hard on this place along with all the Angels and the rest.”
I wouldn’t be to sure about that. This passage seems to describe a comet/meteor strike pretty well.
Revelation 8:6-13
6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”
They were big enough to be highly visible if the entered our atmosphere and probably even big enough to hit land or ocean.
It happens all the time. They see them AFTER they go by. I think it is a “Well the sun was in my eyes!!” sort of thing. Bad when you miss catching the fly ball. Worse when an asteroid lands on your head.
Although not much we could do about it anyway.
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