Posted on 02/29/2016 6:53:00 PM PST by rdl6989
AN ASTEROID set for a staggering close whistle past of Earth in just 10 days could return to strike the planet as early as next year, NASA has admitted.
We are expected to be risk free when the space rock hurtles past us at as close as 11,000 miles away - 21 times closer to us than the moon - on March 8.
But the US space agency cannot yet be 100 per cent certain about its orbital path.
NASA gives near-Earth asteroid a condition code regarding the certainty of its travel from one to 10, with the latter meaning least certainty.
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No apology necessary, my FRiend. My comment could have easily been interpreted as you did.
Thanks.
“Well it did break some windows and send some people to the hospital with cuts.”
Now were those folks just lucky (a low-angle entry/ glancing blow?) or was it small enough that it broke up before it hit? Like I said - I wouldn’t want it landing in my yard.
Now - to witness a relatively harmless, but spectacular event...
We were traveling with the kids and stopped and pulled off the highway about two miles to look at the stars on a dark clear night in Wyoming somewheres.
Hard to pick out any constellations with all the stars. A meteor came in behind us and lit up the entire sky like a transformer blowing. We turned around and you could still see a bit of light from the trail it left. REALLY cool.
Na,San Francisco!
OK, but no more Ghirardelli Chocolate for you.
Nice.
Thanks rdl6989. Gonna miss this time, but the close pass will allow refinement of the mass and trajectory, fun.
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We’re fresh out of shuttles with which to attack the aliens spaceship. But alien elephants are hard to take seriously. Give them some peanuts and a job at the circus.
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