Asteroid 2011 ES4 to shuttle past Earth soon at a much closer distance than moon | Space News | Zee News
Posted on 07/18/2020 8:42:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
NASA has said that asteroid 2011 ES4 will shuttle past the Earth in September at a much closer distance than the moon.
2011 ES4, listed on the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)'s 'Close Approaches' database, will fly past the Earth on September 1 at 10:49 A.M. EDT. The asteroid will fly 0.00048 astronomical units away or about 44,618 miles at a speed of 18,253 miles per hour.
Measuring 22 meters to 49 meters in diameter, NASA considered the asteroid as 'Potentially Hazardous', although there is no threat associated from it due to its amall diameter.
NASA says, "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid's potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less and an absolute magnitude (H) of 22.0 or less are considered PHAs."
Meanwhile, in the near term, Asteroid 2020ND, will fly past the Earth on July 24. Measuring 130 m-280 m in diameter, the Asteroid 2020ND is bigger than London Eye. Travelling at a speed of 13.5 kilometres per second or 48,000 kilometres per hour, the asteroid will come within just 0.034 astronomical units (AU) of the earth on July 24.
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Missing us by about the diameter of 5.5 earths....pretty close.
“Shuttle”?
WTF does that word come from in this instance?
yeah 44,000 sounds like a rounding error with how far these things usually pass us.
wow
“Smoke by” is more like it....
shuttle: to cause to move or travel back and forth frequently.
Sure, but it's only moving about 5.5 miles per second. :^)
A miss is as good as a mile.
It’s only traveling in one direction.
About 150 feet in diameter at 18,000 mph?
44k miles is incredible close.
That would be capable of cataclysmic destruction in a populated region.
It’s travelling in an orbit, which occasionally nearly intersects with Earth’s orbit.
We deserve a big ol’ smack. Right on top of Washington DC. Den of vipers.
Obligatory Pink Floyd ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ meteorite impact animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWbpFz3wac
I'll try to remember to say hello on 7/25 ...
Hope their calculations are correct! ;-)
It's in an orbit, which means it never remains in a single direction of travel. Any further comments should be directed to the editor and reporter responsible for the story.
Thx.
The asteroid was small in astronomical terms just a 150 feet (45.7 m) across. Traveling at around 8 miles per second (12.8 kps) the force of the asteroid impact on the ground was tremendous... Meteor Crater is 3900 feet (1200m) across...formed in an explosion estimated to be equal to 10 million tons of TNT. Meteor Crater Arizona Author: James Tobin
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