Yellow track is 3361 Orpheus
Posted on 11/21/2021 10:15:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Apollo-class asteroid, called 3361 Orpheus, is 984 feet wide and is travelling at around 18,000 miles per hour.
NASA will be keeping a close eye on the huge space rock, which has made it onto the space agency's 'Close Approach' list.
But there's no need to panic just yet – the asteroid will pass through a distance of 3.5 million miles from our home planet.
Anything that passes within 120 million miles is considered a Near Earth Object (NEO), a term used to describe "comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood."
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Ping.
I am getting the impression the universe is just teasing.
we’re all gonna die ping
PLEASE just let it hit us and then this may just be over.
The jab to end all jabs.
Anything that passes within 120 million miles
Hoo baby my balls are sweating.
“Anything that passes within 120 million miles is considered a Near Earth Object (NEO)...”
The Moon is 238,900 miles away.
The Sun is 93 million miles away.
I do seem to recall an asteroid that passed between us and the Moon. So that to me is pretty close. IIRC it was not observed until AFTER it had passed by us. Incoming the sun was in our eyes and we couldn’t see it. Seriously!
I’ll get my hard hat….
Drat! It appears that this one isn’t the Sweet Meteor o’ Death, either.
His rant was Al was full of it, he looked at the "Mann" data of Global Warming and said it was flawed from his scientific perspective and yes as a aero-engineer of the highest order, he is a scientist. The one date point that stuck with me was when the earths temp went up after the Soviets closed down all their airbases in the coldest regions and stopped reporting the temps as they collapsed.
He then when on to say a greater threat is an asteroid strike and that we have nothing (think rocket reconfigured etc) to stop it.
Other than some NASA $ I think at the tail end of the Trump Administration, we haven't done Ugats to address what is the real threat.
Is there any way this comet could be redirected to hit Darrell Brooks?
What’s the turquoise one and when is it due to make its closest pass?
That’s an interesting visual.
What’s the turquoise one and when is it due to make its closest pass?
That’s an interesting visual.
3.5m miles= “close”
I wonder what a “distant approach” would be?
I always hope one of those babies will hit Washington DC.
The one date point that stuck with me was when the earths temp went up after the Soviets closed down all their airbases in the coldest regions and stopped reporting the temps as they collapsed.Wow, and but of course. What an amazing thing to have heard that Rutan talk!
I have been blessed many times to get their early and get in or stand on the outside and here his forums, standing room only. He went linear on the Clintons by the way OMG ! Ya, you get the impression both Burt and his Brother Dick "are one of us".
Their used to be an older couple, I am not sure they are with us that would record all the forums and you could buy a cassette tape of the forum(s) you wanted. Someone somewhere has copies of all the ones he has done over the years.
These days EAA not so much, you want your Forum recorded you have to do it yourself, I helped someone in 2020 record theirs....
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