Asteroid as big as the Eiffel Tower to pass near the earth on June 1

The Week ^ | May 30, 2021 13:51 IST

[BenLurkin]

The asteroid zipping around the earth on June 1, named 2021 KT1, would be 4.5 million miles away from the earth. While that may seem far, NASA considers any asteroid within 4.6 million miles of earth and larger than 150 metres to be potentially hazardous.

Smaller asteroids are expected to approach the earth on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and are expected to be as big as an average house or an airplane. In total, five asteroids are expected to pass near earth over the next few days.

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Regular bus, or an articulated one?

Or a biden sized short bus?

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[Rummyfan]

The asteroid zipping around the earth on June 1, named 2021 KT1, would be 4.5 million miles away from the earth. While that may seem far, NASA considers any asteroid within 4.6 million miles of earth and larger than 150 metres to be potentially hazardous.

Why bother classifying them? There's nothing we can do about it if one is going to smack us.

[faucetman]

“The asteroid zipping around the earth on June 1, named 2021 KT1, would be 4.5 million miles away from the earth. While that may seem far...”

No, That IS far!

Only 4.5 MILLION MILES away.

What if they are off by say a MILLION MILES, it would still miss erf by 4.4 MILLION MILES!

Don’t worry, baby
Don’t worry, baby
Everything will turn out alright
Don’t worry, baby
Don’t worry, baby
Don’t worry, baby

Awkward, black and white, lip sink, TV appearance from back then by The Beach Boys.

And we LOVED IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-0nWVdBH4

[wildcard_redneck]

"But how many football fields is it?"

well the area exposed by the surface of the earth is 49.25 million square miles The total area of the potential miss is πr2 or π(4.5 million miles squared) or 20,250,000,000 miles squared.

if you then divide the exposed surface area of the earth of 49.25 million square miles by 20.25 trillion miles squared by 4.925 million you get .0000243209877% or 1 in 4,111,675.

I can't get even get a "death boner" with sad, weak doom porn.

[frank ballenger]

would be 4.5 million miles away from the earth.

Football fields, Eifel Tower, I want to know how many Tesla recharge range amounts that is.

1. 2021 Tesla Model S Performance all-wheel drive with 19-inch wheels: 387 miles 2. 2021 Tesla Model X Long Range Plus RWD: 371 miles 3. 2021 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD: 353 miles 4. 2021 Tesla Model Y Long Range RWD: 326 miles 5. 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E RWD California Route 1: 305 miles 6. 2021 Chevrolet Bolt EV: 259 miles 7. 2021 Hyundai Kona Electric: 258 miles

Out of control approaching death asteroid: Classified. Just say a long way.

[TheDon]

For context, the moon is roughly a quarter of a million miles from earth.

[Flick Lives]

The asteroid zipping around the earth on June 1, named 2021 KT1, would be 4.5 million miles away from the earth.

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For reference, Earth’s own Moon is only 250,000 miles away. Now you get a large android inside of *that* distance and I’ll start to worry.

[Scrambler Bob]

you get .0000243209877% or 1 in 4,111,675.
= = =

And still less odds than death by vax.

[sageburn]

It doesn’t matter if your math is correct, you meant well. lol

[sageburn]

Holy sh*t! I’m getting vaccinated now! I want to be fully protected!

[Carriage Hill]

Either way, it’d take a train of busses to stretch over 1,000ft.

[backwoods-engineer]

Please, God, let it hit DC, NYC or San Fran. I would also take London, Brussels or Beijing.

[backwoods-engineer]

Actually not true. If you start early enough, it only takes a small amount of thrust to make a near-earth asteroid miss us entirely. A big ion engine powered by a nuclear reactor or a big solar panel could do it. It might have to run for a year or two, but delta-V is all that you need.

[Keyhopper]

Look up Apophis 2029

[jmacusa]

Mon Dieu, nous sommes condamnes!

[ro_dreaming]

What if they are off by say a MILLION MILES, it would still miss erf by 4.4 MILLION MILES!

I don't know if you caught that, but your math is wrong.
.....4,500,000
-....1,000,000
==============
.....3,500,000

At least that's why my math shows.

[ro_dreaming]

large android inside of *that* distance

NO offense, but any LARGE android, at any distance, is going to bother me.

I've seen Skynet, and it will not be pretty.

/trying to be funny?

[Flick Lives]

Autocorrect, it tasks me. It tasks me!

[PLMerite]

"...as big as the Eiffel Tower..."

That's a lot of...well, it's really big.