It would have been DY-NO-MITE!
Posted on 05/06/2020 1:58:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A previously unseen asteroid the size of a truck flew about 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers) over the Pacific Ocean on Monday, making it one of the closest passes by our planet on record.
Astronomers had no notice of asteroid 2020 JJ's existence, as it was discovered using the Mt. Lemmon Survey in Arizona right around the time it reached its closest point to us.
Had 2020 JJ actually struck Earth, most of it probably would have burned up in the atmosphere. In other words, this space rock wasn't any sort of existential threat, but it did fly closer than many of the satellites orbiting our planet and could have potentially struck one, creating a big mess.
Close asteroid passes like this aren't really anything worth worrying about, but it's always worth keeping an eye on what's going on near our planet
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
It didn’t hit the earth and nobody would have noticed if it did. Slow news day, I guess.
And now, in the same vein, George Carlin reports on today’s big health news: “The Center for Disease Control has discovered a new disease which has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.”
Sooner or later another big one will hit.
True, but interesting that it wasn’t even noticed until it was pretty much here.
” Lucas Electrics, too!”
Also known as the “Prince of Darkness” If you every had a British car with Lucas Electrics, you would understand my post. They are indeed the “Prince of Darkness.”
Naa, while there are a lot of birds (a little military lingo, for those of you in Rio Linda), the targets they make are absolutely puny in relation to how vast the area is there. It’s like dropping a rock from space over the Pacific and expecting to hit a ship - not happening.
Probability and Statistics 101.
*ping*
If Lucas Electrics was responsible for lighting the Sun, we could truly explore it at night.
Yes, The units of "trucks" are not quite as useful as "feet."
Maybe the author doesn't know that all trucks aren't the same size.
2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid
estimated size 20 meters (65 ft) exploded in atmosphere
with estimated yield of 500 kt ‘
Shattered thousands of windows and injured hundreds of people, most cut by glass
HAL not amused
“2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid - estimated size 20 meters (65 ft) exploded in atmosphere with estimated yield of 500 kt”
But the Earth is a slightly bigger target than a bunch of satellites.
“2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid - estimated size 20 meters (65 ft) exploded in atmosphere with estimated yield of 500 kt”
...and the videos from that are wild - and quite scary considering how small it was.
Wish they’d do a remake of the show.
Next time, my way
It is said, “you never see the bullet coming that kills you”
(..I’ll take that on faith)
or the ones that hit the Ice Sheet in 10800-10700 BC burning off all life on the North American continent and kept on hitting for 100 years ... air bursters, ground/ice penetrators - all that ice falling from the stratosphere like daggers, shattering on impact sending razor sharp shards everywhere, no escape from the century long, continent-wide fire storms or the ice knives. All mega fauna and the Clovis peoples of North America - all dead, incinerated. We just see the Carolina Bays, the Nebraska Rainwater Basins where the ice landed.
The ones we don’t see, will kill us.
Sooner or later one will sneak in and impact.
Um, do we know where Marco Inaros is at the moment?
It would have been DY-NO-MITE!
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