Enormous Asteroid Traveling at 72,000 mph Only Just Spotted Nearing Earth

newsweek.com ^ | 8/1/22 AT 12:51 PM EDT | ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON

[Larry Lucido]

For real. I had the Sinclair transistor AM radio. I think they are still available on eBay.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Yeah, probably.

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[LauraJean]

This meteor crater is covered up thanks to glaciers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Plaines_crater

[LauraJean]

This meteor crater is covered up thanks to glaciers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Plaines_crater

[Cobra64]

Drop a grenade in each one of them.

[IrishBrigade]

‘If a “city-killer” rock ever does strike Earth, do you think it may come as a complete surprise (as did the Russian bolide)?’

no, but I believe women of color will be hardest hit...

[schurmann]

“Another one!

And it’s going to fly safely past the Earth...” [I want the USA back, post 34]

It’s flying safely past - this time.

In space, rocks like that don’t disappear nor run out of velocity. They just keep going around and around in some sort of orbit until they run into something bigger. Such as a planet, or the Sun.

Many of them don’t even conform to predictable orbits. That’s true of a number of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

[Abathar]

My neighbors old Peterbuilt has about that many miles on it I think, I know it’s close to it now.

Looking at it that way it kind of changes my perspective on things.

[JimRed]

“Nearing Earth” is 3.2 million miles? Mmmph!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, good link and info.

[P.O.E.]

Earth once had a bad case of asteroids. It cleared up, though.