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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Excerpt from Nasa communication 5th September,
----------------------------------------Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, will pass within the Moon's distance of Earth on Wednesday, September 8th. The Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson Arizona discovered both objects on the morning of September 5 during their routine monitoring of the skies. The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge Massachusetts first received the observations Sunday morning, determined preliminary orbits and concluded that both objects would pass within the distance of the Moon about three days after their discovery. Near Earth asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be 10 to 20 meters in size and will pass within 0.6 lunar distances of Earth (about 248,000 km) at 9:51 Greenwich standard time (5:51 am EDT) Wednesday. The second object, 2010 RF12, estimated to be 6 to 14 meters in size will pass within 0.2 lunar distances (79,000 km) a few hours later at 21:12 Greenwich standard time (5:12 pm EDT). Both objects should be observable near closest approach with moderate sized amateur telescopes. Although neither of these object has a chance of hitting Earth, a ten meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 50 million would be expected to pass almost daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth's atmosphere about every ten years on average. The two object passed as planned at the two computed distances. First what is striking is that the two objects have been detected with such short notice that no action is possible. Just wait and see the fireworks. Second the distance of 79'000 km is just above the geosynchronous orbit (36'000 km) were many of our satellites stay fixed in relation to earth. In terms of cosmic distances 79'000 km is simply nothing, it is a vanishingly small distance. Third, how many of these bodies we simply do not detect at all and they just pass by, until WHAM! one hits. A 100 mt body would already have the result of multiple H bombs. Statistically due to the wide surface covered by oceans the impact may be in the sea, but the resulting tsunami would be catastrophic. ![]() |
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Sekerob
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Some do well to start taking decaf on Friday so they wont have a headache from withdrawl in the weekend. ;-)
----------------------------------------It's really something that worries me at about the 0.0 to the infinitesimal. If it does, the next best species will rise... and you'll be in your next life the butler on planet of the .The weather is fine, 22C today and up predicted for tomorrow.
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sek you are right. Temps have risen and I have again cooling problems.
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Kenneth Larsen
Cruncher Spain Joined: Feb 14, 2006 Post Count: 17 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You might already know it, but there's a Boinc project looking for asteroids: http://orbit.psi.edu/
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sk..
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An interesting project and not in any way concerning ET. It basically looks for boulders that could fall on you head, big ones. Cant wait for one to land on a Lotto winner :p
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