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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Thanks - been there 3 times, quite a sight/site but it was closed when my son and I got there a few years back - still light enough to see up off the road. The rest is on the internet.
I’m not worried about this one even though its astronomically akin to a human hair to earth, the one that comes along and is going to hit us - we won’t hear about it.
Panic, rioting, looting, shooting, rape, robbery, revenge killings, etc.
It’d be sad if only the cockroaches survive. The politicians and rich in their bunkers I mean and the bugs of course.
Just a thought. ;-)
the one that comes along and is going to hit us - we wont hear about it.
Quite right -- probably zero warning, even with the detection up a couple orders of magnitude compared with the SL-9 impacts on Jupiter, which sobered everyone up in a hurry.
De Blasio is assigning more cops to make sure this asteroid doesnt deface his BLM defacement.
lol
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