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Posted on 11/30/2025 4:41:10 PM PST by Red Badger
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Eros? Looks like it’s aptly named...................
Is that an asteroid in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me....?
You are a day late
Eros is visible now, on Sunday, November 30, 2025, as it is passing by Earth at a distance of about 60 million kilometers (37.2 million miles). It is bright enough to be seen with a small telescope and will appear near the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, making it a unique viewing opportunity. The Virtual Telescope Project is hosting a free livestream of the event at 20:00 UTC, which you can watch on their website, notes this Facebook post from the project
"This mission revealed a surface littered with craters and boulders, Olde English 800 bottles, empty Newport cigarette packs, helping scientists understand how asteroids evolve".
It looks like this morning’s Obama.
By the way, Earth is zooming past Eros, it is not zooming past our planet but is being overtaken — the asteroid at its closest point to the Sun is 10% further out than the earth, so we are always moving faster. Sometimes the asteroid Eros is out by Mars so at that point we are moving twice as fast. Its closest approaches to the Sun are in the part of the solar system we are now moving towards, and if we passed it around end of January or early February that would be around its closest approaches to Earth.
Think of it this way, a three-lane freeway with us near the median, Mars in the shoulder lane, and Eros in the middle lane, but with more variable speed. Once in a while Eros would slow down to a speed similar to Mars and even a bit slower and move into its lane. It crosses the orbit of Mars at its aphelion but at a higher inclination so there is presently no danger of collision. It does not get as close to the Sun as our orbit but may do so in millions of years which would then make it a threat to the Earth.
It is not an exact ratio but every seven earth years, Eros makes about four orbits of the Sun and Mars makes three and two-thirds orbits.
Post is only three hours late.
It was cloudy here, and I missed it, darnit.
Thanks for the link. I watched it afterwards.
Well, it’ll be back in 2056, so get ready............
-PJ
I’ll be 102. If I’m still alive by then I’ll either have dementia or I’ll be blind, lol.
I’ll be 101, so it could happen!............
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