Don't panic! Although the asteroid passed within 9,000 miles of Earth it measured just 23ft across and wouldn't have dented the surface (artist's illustration) site where meteorite hit
Posted on 11/11/2009 3:44:30 PM PST by null and void
Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning
Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon
Don't panic! Although the asteroid passed within 9,000 miles of Earth it measured just 23ft across and wouldn't have dented the surface (artist's illustration) site where meteorite hit
the tumbling rock was only 23ft across. Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years.
Astronomers believe the object, called 2009 VA, would have almost completely burned up while entering Earth's atmosphere, causing a brilliant fireball in the sky but no major damage to the surface.
The path of the asteroid 2009 VA, which passed well within the Moon's orbit last Friday
Nasa's Near Earth Object Programme plotted the orbit of the object and determined that although it would fly extremely close to our planet it wouldn't hit us.
It was the third-closest known (non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid.
The Nasa NEO programme aims to detect and track at least 90 per cent of the 1,000 asteroids and comets that approach Earth and are larger than 0.6miles in diameter, by 2020.
They monitored a 100ft asteroid that whizzed 45,000 miles above the Earth's surface on March 2 this year. A similar sized object slammed into Tunguska, Siberia in 1908. The impact created a blast so powerful it levelled 1,200 square miles of forest.
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Maybe Teheran rather than Mecca. The Saudis aren’t fixing to nuke us and our friends the way the Iranians are.
Save the Library and its collections and the Museum and its collections — so long as the blast did not disturb the honored dead at Lee’s former home...
A little over 1 earth diameter away......That’s pretty close.
Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning
dailymail.co.uk | Nov. 10, 2009 | Claire Bates
Posted on 11/10/2009 11:26:06 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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Tehran is just another head, lop it off and two will grow to replace it. You can only kill the Hydra by taking out its heart.
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As the asteroid passed close to the earth, a little, green creature astride the rock yelled, “Woooooooooo-hoooooooooooooooo!!!”
Knew about it? Hell,he launched the durn thing there!
What part of “Trust in God” do people not understand? The Earth has survived longer than any of us have been around. Seriously people... Trust in God!
Where were you when we almost got hit?
I never received 0bama's memo...
Wouldn’t that be a wonderful blessing? ;)
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