Newly discovered asteroid seen approaching Earth

Space ^ | January 25, 2023 | Staff

[DoughtyOne]

I thought it was going to be a bit more impressive than that.

[Red Badger]

Depends on how much atmosphere it encounters...................

[Red Badger]

Hopefully the distance calculated is right as well as the size estimate.

Hey, it's THE GOVERNMENT. They are always right!.................right?.....................

[Billthedrill]

“Boss? We inverted the calculations. The math is the same, it’s just the units that got reversed. It isn’t actually a 20 foot asteroid flying 2200 miles from Earth. It’s a 2200 mile asteroid flying 20 feet from Earth. Oh, I’m taking the night off for a little party...”

[gleeaikin]

Remember when some genius confused feet and meters thereby crashing an expensive launch on Mars. Wonder what happened to him/her? If this were Russia, would they have been executed?

[Tunehead54]

I don’t think that would scare the pants off of me but I’d probably need to change them for a clean pair. ;-)

[Mashood]

We can hope the asteroid will hit Washington DC and kill off all the old dinosaurs.

[DoughtyOne]

We may have clouds here on the best days to view.

Would like to get some sort of shot of it.

I have a 50:1 optical zoom on my camera. That’s not optimal,
but I’ve gotten some pretty good shots with it.

[blam]

"I think the recent Russian (Chelyabinsk, sp?) meteor was about this size. It was an air burst, and smashed thousands of windows which cut a nimber of people. "

Ha ha. That was 10 years ago.

Chelyabinsk Meteor

[SunkenCiv]

We’ve got a lot about that one. :^) I was mostly water ice and debris, so it blew more easily than a stony one of the same size probably would, and yet, it got almost all the way to the surface. And it wasn’t a metropolis where it hit, yet a number of people died, and many others crapped their pants. :^)

https://freerepublic.com/tag/chelyabinsk/index?tab=articles

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

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