Another 'Near Miss'!

[JaXanim]

Tonight (Saturday 8 March 2008) a newly discovered asteroid, about 50 feet in diameter, will pass within 100,000 miles of Earth. That's less than half the distance to the Moon, so pretty close. Full details here:Space Weather

JaX

[motorollin]

Is 50 feet big for an asteroid? Would that cause any damage if it hit Earth?

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moto

[bloodline]

It would probablty only be the size of a RangeRover by the time it got to the surface... which if it hit London between 8:30 and 9:00 am would probably kill quite a few school children.

[motorollin]

Would the children have less chance of survival if the meteor were fitted with bull-bars?

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moto

[bloodline]

motorollin wrote:
Would the children have less chance of survival if the meteor were fitted with bull-bars?

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moto

Statically speaking, yes!

[blobrana]

The near earth asteroid (NEO) 8E4BDB1 is predicted to make a close flyby of the Earth; passing at a distance  of only 0.00108 AU (about 0.6 LD),  at about 9:04 UT on Sunday, 9 March.
The NEO will reach magnitude 12.6 and be observable from Europe and the Americas.

H=26.7
8E4BDB1 = 2008 EZ7

[bloodline]

blobrana wrote:
The near earth asteroid (NEO) 8E4BDB1 is predicted to make a close flyby of the Earth; passing at a distance  of only 0.00108 AU (about 0.6 LD),  at about 9:04 UT on Sunday, 9 March.
The NEO will reach magnitude 12.6 and be observable from Europe and the Americas.

H=26.7
8E4BDB1 = 2008 EZ7

I'm willing to bet that what Blobzie just said means something to someone... somewhere :-D

[Speelgoedmannetje]

They use hexadecimal numbers for asteroids?

[blobrana]

Just another  name for the Near Earth  Object (NEO)

BTW,
LD = Lunar Distance
AU = Astronomical Units
Magnitude = the brightness
H = the apparent brightness (from it you can guess the size of the rock)

[bloodline]

blobrana wrote:
Just another  name for the Near Earth  Object (NEO)

BTW,
LD = Lunar Distance
AU = Astronomical Units
Magnitude = the brightness
H = the apparent brightness (from it you can guess the size of the rock)

Post successfully decoded now, thanks! :-)

[motorollin]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
They use hexadecimal numbers for asteroids?

Space is quite big. They probably ran out of numbers ;-)

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moto

[blobrana]

Hum,
Another NEO provisionally named BJ19377, that has a similar orbit to NEO 8E4BDB1 is to make a close flyby of the Earth.
The two objects have such similar orbits that astronomers suspect that they may be the remnants of  a larger object  that broke up.

[size=9]2008 March 09,  13 UT: Position(2000):  R.A. = 08 35 20.1, Dec. = -03 18 22, V = 14.6[/size]

[JaXanim]

motorollin wrote:
Is 50 feet big for an asteroid? Would that cause any damage if it hit Earth?
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moto

It's tiny, too small to reach the surface. Anything this small hitting the atmospere at 20-50,000 mph would evaporate as a meteoric fireball.

jaX

[KThunder]

this thread isnt about a girl you are close to?

sorry miss

[blobrana]

Ohh noo misses, mustn't titter...