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."
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Mercury, Venus and Mars are sometimes less than 120 million miles from earth...not to mention Phobos and Deimos.
Obviously another lie THEY are trying to tell us!!! Apollo was the fake moon landing program and it has nothing to do with the supposed asteroids!!!
Oh, sorry. ;^)
Thanks Army Air Corps. Just above this I've added a graphic of an African impact crater and a recent-years bolide impact map.
In the northern Arizona desert, an imposing-looking crater shows the impact of an ancient meteor crash. Until the 1960s, it was mistakenly believed to be a volcanic crater.Arizona's Jaw-Dropping Mile-Long Meteor Crater | November 25, 2016 | Smithsonian Channel [From: AERIAL AMERICA: Roadside Attractions]
When was the last big hit? Twelve thousand years ago? Or more? Not buying into this fear porn.
“...the asteroid will pass through a distance of 3.5 million miles from our home planet.”
SO CLOSE, 3 1/2 MILLION miles!
“from our home planet”? What about our OTHER planets. You know the vacation planets or our summer planets. Are THEY safe?
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The sun is always less than 120 million miles away.
I know that, but someone else had already mentioned the figure of 93 million miles for the distance to the sun (that’s the average—varies by a few million miles in the course of a year).
We need to sue for a circular orbit.
Swing Low, Big Fella. Swing Low, I pray.
Swing Low, Big Fella. Swing Low, I pray.
When they find one that's going to pass within 75 feet of the Earth, then I'll be concerned.
Why does the chart have metric (140 meters plus, 1 kilometer plus)? Aren’t they supposed to compare near-earth asteroids to the size of a football field?
Tinfoil alert. Have you noticed all the close calls over the last 5 years? We have big one (but not extinction) coming. That’s why the vax. Store a tone of food supplies and the right people then Bam 4Billion dead due to Covid, asteroid hits and we survive as a species with Fauchi and Gates as head honchos. Sound like utopia.
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