Posted on 07/16/2022 10:38:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An asteroid the size of a 50-story skyscraper will zoom past Earth Sunday (July 17), making its closest approach to our planet in nearly 100 years.
The meaty space rock, dubbed 2022 KY4, will safely miss Earth by about 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers), or more than 16 times the average distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA. This is considerably farther afield than the asteroid 2022 NF, which came within 56,000 miles (90,000 km) — or about 23% the average distance between Earth and the moon — on July 7.
Asteroid 2022 KY4 is about 290 feet (88 meters) in diameter at its widest visible point and is traveling at an estimated 16,900 mph (27,000 km/h)...
The space rock has made several close approaches to Earth before, most recently in 1959 and 1948. The asteroid won't make another close approach to our planet until May 2048...
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Relax and it will slide right past us.
DUCK! ;)
Dam...at this point I’m rooting for the asteroid
meaty, beaty, big, and bouncy.
SMOD
Skyscraper-size asteroid will blaze past Earth in a close approach this Sunday ... big ones to follow ...
A direct hit on DC with all politicians in session would be nice.
It will never get higher than 5 degrees elevation where I live, and at 17.5 Magnitude, I would need a 40 inch diameter scope to see it at all.
“Close approach”??
Fifteen times further than the moon!
“...(S)kyscraper-size asteroid will blaze past Earth in a close approach this Sunday”
“Close approach” is SIXTEEN TIMES as far away as the moon, fer chrissakes!! Let me know when it flies a couple miles over Walla Walla, then we can call it a “close approach.” Heck, using the same language as these alarmists, we could just as easily say “The MOON, a FULL QUARTER of the size as EARTH, CONTINUALLY MENACES Earth from ONLY a quarter-million miles away! We’re DOOOOMED!!!”
Sad to say, me too. Can we steer it where we need it? 😅✌🚀
Relax, there’s at least one out there that has our name on it... Coming soon...
Just another big tease, I'm afraid. /smirk
If you even see an asteroid “blazing” that means it’s in the atmosphere above you and your remaining life is measured in milliseconds.
A miss is as good as a mile (or a few million).
Who?
“Meaty” ... Brisket? T-bone? Filet? Tenderloin? Come a little bit closer 2022 KY4.
exactly
yeah, it will blaze by Earth the same way a track runner in Tokyo blazes past my house.
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