You missed!
Trump’s fault
A celestial warning shot from The Big Guy?
This happens more often than not - seeing the asteroid AFTER it has gone past us. (If it comes in from the direction of the sun, it is like losing the baseball in the lights.)
Yeah - 1/5 the distance to the moon - that IS close. I wonder how long it will be if it ever comes this way again? (I have no idea how asteroids orbit.)
Missed us by that much........
Trump’s fault!
Most asteroids don’t wire ahead.
Wonder what he did with the grant money we gave him to look for these things?
The Earth is about 7000 miles wide. This asteroid came within 7 diameters of hitting.
Any scientist worthy of the label should know well that the odds of an asteroid hitting a city are tiny. There’s not even a 1 in 3 chance one would hit solid land, and most of the land on Earth is uninhabited still.
The odds are so long that if an asteroid is claimed to have entirely hit a city I would suspect that something else had happened.
Vote Democrat if you want an end to anthropomorphic comet change.
In terms of distances as related in space that thing parted our hair...
However, the smoke from the dinosaurs that perished in the Permian-Triassic big strike is still floating around the atmosphere! (Look at all those little dinosaur clouds crawling along the horizon! :0
(Almost bed time!)
Try 25 km sec, dense rock, one hundred meter diameter and select a range to impact. Enjoy?
https://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/
lets do the math
passed within 45000 miles = a circular area (Pi R^2 = 1,590,384,375 sq miles) divided by a profile area of earth (15,705,369 sq mi) is about 1 chance in 101 to touch the earth (less if it wasn’t a perpendicular path)
‘City killer’ would also have to hit somewhere near a city (a rather small chance to be somewhere in that 15,705,369 sq mi potential disk area)
((187 to 427 feet ???? they don’t even have a decent number for its size ???)
