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Near-miss Asteroid 2020 QL2 as big as football pitch to fly past Earth on Monday
birminghammail.co.uk ^ | 05:30, 12 SEP 2020 | Dvid Bentley

Posted on 09/11/2020 10:20:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Among recent 'near-Earth objects' it's one of the biggest but won't be as terrifying close as the rock that flew past less than 2,000 miles from us in August

An asteroid the size of a football pitch is to whizz past planet Earth on Monday, September 14.

The giant chunk of rock, named Asteroid 2020 QL2, is up to 120 metres in diameter.

It's among the 'near Earth objects' being documented and observed by astronomers.

NASA's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) says QL2 will fly past at a speed of nearly 24,000 mph and come within a distance of 6.8 million km or 4.2 million miles.

Space objects that come within 4.6 million miles are labelled "potentially hazardous" by NASA, meaning Asteroid 2020 QL2 falls into this category.

(Excerpt) Read more at birminghammail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2020ql2; asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; science; whiz

1 posted on 09/11/2020 10:20:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 09/11/2020 10:29:13 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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3 posted on 09/11/2020 10:31:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

NOT

A PROBLEM

“within a distance of 6.8 million km or 4.2 million miles. “

Wake me up when these risks get below 250,000 miles...


4 posted on 09/11/2020 10:35:20 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

Hm, a football pitch = 120 meters in diameter.


5 posted on 09/11/2020 10:35:41 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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A biiiiig rock.


6 posted on 09/11/2020 10:53:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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“Near-miss”

No, it’s a miss, or if you prefer, a “near-hit”.

A near miss wouldn’t miss, it would hit.

(Carlin)


7 posted on 09/12/2020 2:06:55 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Paladin2

The moon is closer than that. :)


8 posted on 09/12/2020 3:15:20 AM PDT by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

WTF is a football pitch? STOOPID BRITISH IDIOTS. (Sorry didnt mean to repeat myself twice.)


9 posted on 09/12/2020 6:13:33 AM PDT by Delta 21
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SMOD


10 posted on 09/12/2020 7:05:56 AM PDT by MAAG (Tetelestai, paid in full. You are as righteous as God is. Double jeopardy is forbidden.)
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To: BenLurkin

4.2 million miles or 16 X further than the moon.


11 posted on 09/12/2020 1:19:28 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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