Posted on 05/04/2009 1:37:45 PM PDT by TaraP
MOSCOW, 04 May (RIA Novosti). A newly discovered asteroid with mysterious properties could be considered by the astronomers. Planet at risk.
As New Scientist reported that the asteroid (called 2009 HC82), 29 April by the US-telescope? Atalina Sky Survey discovered. The two to three kilometre asteroid orbit the Sun in 3.39 years and are currently behind the Mars orbit approximately 3.5 million kilometers from Earth orbit. Thus, it was for our planet potentially dangerous.
Astronomers now puzzle why this celestial body, already in 2000 was not recorded, as he had approached the Earth, the report continues. Very unusual, that the asteroid around the sun in the opposite direction to the planets fly. Such an orbit is intrinsically more comets.
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Its the obamastar!
ALL YOU ROKS ARE BELONG TO US!....................
Or maybe even its “manhood”
Guess both are still missing...
I hate it when that happens.
I think that goes without saying.
Don’t tell me; Stupefyin’ Jones, right?
Good lord, word salad.
Man, what a task to interpret that article. The Russian that translated it must have been underpaid.
This is the 1,534th thread reporting how our “Planet is at Risk” and that’s just today. To be honest, I’m so sick of these stories I wish a big ol’ rock would come in and take us all out, seems we have an inward desire to be obliterated that must be fullfilled.
Mystery celestial article confuses readers....
Something got lost in the translation.
All planets danger are, rock big falls boom, lickety split run shelter to, tiny dancer no come closer.
Planet at risk, gotta save it/them, send out billions and billions of dollars.
The discovery of a 2- to 3-kilometre-wide asteroid in an orbit that goes backwards has set astronomers scratching their heads. It comes closer to Earth than any other object in a ‘retrograde’ orbit, and astronomers think they should have spotted it before.
The object, called 2009 HC82, was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on the morning of 29 April.
From observations of its position by five different groups, Sonia Keys of the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center calculated it orbits the sun every 3.39 years on a path that ventures within 3.5 million km of the Earth’s orbit. Combined with its size, that makes 2009 HC82 a potentially hazardous asteroid.
What’s really unusual is that the calculated orbit is inclined 155° to the plane of the Earth’s orbit. That means that as it orbits the Sun, it actually travels backwards compared to the planets. It is only the 20th asteroid known in a retrograde orbit, a very rare group. None of the others comes as close to the Earth.
More observations needed
Comets, which originate on the outer fringes of the solar system, are much more likely to have retrograde orbitsMovie Camera than asteroids. In part, this is because passing stars or planets can kick them out of their original orbits and onto unusual paths, bringing them into the inner solar system, where we tend to see them.
Thanks!!! I adore an internet that is all English, where I don’t even have to press “1”.
The discovery of a 2- to 3-kilometre-wide asteroid in an orbit that goes backwards has set astronomers scratching their heads. It comes closer to Earth than any other object in a 'retrograde' orbit, and astronomers think they should have spotted it before.
What's really unusual is that the calculated orbit is inclined 155° to the plane of the Earth's orbit. That means that as it orbits the Sun, it actually travels backwards compared to the planets. It is only the 20th asteroid known in a retrograde orbit, a very rare group. None of the others comes as close to the Earth.
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