Posted on 01/25/2009 5:17:43 PM PST by TaraP
STRANGE ASTEROID: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 BD is slowly passing by Earth today only 400,000 miles away. The small 10m-wide space rock poses no threat, but it merits attention anyway. The orbit of 2009 BD appears to be almost identical to the orbit of Earth. 2009 BD may be a rare co-orbital asteroid, circling the sun in near-tandem with our planet. Extrapolating the motion of 2009 BD into the future, we see that it remains in the vicinity of Earth for many months to come, never receding farther than 0.1 AU (9.3 million miles) until Nov. 2010. Future observations may reveal the nature of this strange asteroid...
APPROACHING COMET: Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) is approaching Earth for a 38 million mile close encounter in late February. At that time, the comet could brighten to naked eye visibility (5th magnitude). Meanwhile, it's a nice target for backyard telescopes:
Summary: On Jan. 23, 2009, at approximately 8:48 pm EST a meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over New England. Its blue-green disintegration was widely observed by motorists on the Massachusetts Turnpike and in neighboring states.
From SpaceWeather.com
Observers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are reporting a "huge, pulsating blue-green fireball" sighted within minutes of 8:48 pm EST on Jan. 23rd. It was bright enough to be seen through heavy cloud cover, according to one witness. JAN 18th, 2009 Fireball Over Sweeden- Video of it here. http://www.astroengine.com/?p=3182 The fireball occured on January 17th at 19:09 UT. It was a spectacular sight. Duration: 3 or 4 seconds, colours: yellow to green, fragmentation yes, brightness -10 or maybe brighter. I’m a meteor observer active since 1978 and I have observed almost 60 000 meteors since that time.” - Koen Miskotte, Ermelo, Netherlands. Fireball over Colorado
What do you think all means?
/mark
This is a great video of a Fireball over Canada last November
http://www.sciencepunk.com/2008/11/incredible-footage-of-meteor-over-edmonton-canada/
Are you looking for Wormwood? :-)
You really don't know?
It's all about the anointing of our “messiah”.
More strange things will happen.
LOL!!!!
Will he go the route of Michael Jackson and then claim he has a “skin disease”?
No I realize what this all means...
I will be on Noah’s Ark too!
:)
Quick to DU. Watch religion become cool for them.
That Jessica Alba is way, way closer to my house then this fireball is to earth yet she still is not going to be knocking on my door.
And Ming is one Bad Mamajama.
Wormwood? No maybe the Hailstorm (Asteroid) that the world is in for...
GOD is shaking the heavens and the earth...
Today also 6.1 earthquake in Alaska 4.5 earthquake in Los Angeles on friday..
Many things going on ST!
Asteroid my ass. It is the Mother Ship. Calypso Louie and Obama called it in to bring Utopia to Earth and save us stupid Earthlings.
Check out the
Swedish meteorball!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/swedish-meteorball/
You mentioned this one little thing — “No maybe the Hailstorm...”
You know the earth gets hit with ice-balls the size of houses all day long in the earth’s atmosphere. They mostly get burned up and turned into water, though. But, there’s a lot of those iceballs coming down on us all the time, 24 hours a day (and has been for centuries...).
“Asteroid my ass.”
Yeah, I had one a couple of weeks ago.
Whatever it all means, women and minorities will be hardest hit - at least that's what the N.Y. Times tells us.
Those are a bitch.
LMAOROFL!!!!!!!!!!!
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