Yellow track is 3361 Orpheus
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.
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!
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.
3.5m miles= “close”
I wonder what a “distant approach” would be?
I always hope one of those babies will hit Washington DC.
“...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?
/s
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.