Posted on 09/07/2016 9:20:31 AM PDT by RightGeek
Get ready for a close encounter: A large asteroid will come TEN times nearer to Earth than the moon today
Asteroid will come within a distance of 24,800 miles (40,000 km)
The 32ft-long asteroid will pass by Earth today at 18:12 BST (13:12 ET)
A huge 200-foot asteroid is also set to pass us by on 17 September
[Snip] The space rock is predicted to whistle past our planet at 31,000 miles (50,000km) per hour, on September 17.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
How can it be ten times NEARER? It can come 1/10 the distance or 10% but not ten times nearer.
Someone tell Jeh Johnson. It's WAR!
What the heck, 24,800 miles? Thats just outside geosync orbit.. that is very, very close, for comfort. 32 footer? That would make a nice, big boom.
I agree with your assessment. Seems that the author of the article, Abigail Beall, went to Common Core Journalism school
10 times less far away?
I agree with you but there seems to be plenty of arguments about that usage - http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/114392/ten-times-fewer-the-number-versus-one-tenth-the-number
If i’m 20 feet away from the TV, wouldn’t 10 times nearer put me 180 feet behind it? :)
Sounds really ####ing close, even to a layman like me!!!
no danger?!?!
Sgt. Kirby: You know what I think, Sir?
Johnny Rico: What’s that, Sergeant?
Sgt. Kirby: I think it’s a good day to die, Sir!
Johnny Rico: Outstanding!
whistle past our planet
Sure it will there is no sound in space
Thank you for your comment: “How can it be ten times NEARER? It can come 1/10 the distance or 10% but not ten times nearer.”
I despise the “Two times as small” kind of describing things. What the heck is wrong with 1/2 ?
Meanwhile, one of my favorite quotes: “Figures never lie, but liars always figure.”
If not her favorite, it is a top ten, from my daughter: “87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
Most boring read I ever attempted to finish but couldn’t.
The good news is that geostationary is a very narrow ring and even if the asteroid travelled within that radius, the likelihood of collision with a comms sat is vanishingly small.
The bad news is, as you say, that's awful damn close. And we only had one days' advance notice... If it hit a city it'd make one hell of a mess.
nearness is the inverse of farness
Can anyone redirect these to Mecca please?
ALL Journalism schools are Commie Core............
Loved that book!.......................
Maybe Hillary’s mysterious black doctor should hold an umbrella over her head today. Just to be cautious.
I’ll leave it up to the doctor on whether he wants to OPEN that held umbrella.
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