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In 1998 congress mandated that NASA locate and track all asteroids greater than 100m in diameter without providing sufficient funding for instrumentation and personnel to accomplish that task. Right now they estimate they are at 35% of all asteroids greater than 130m in diameter.
That could have been really nasty. Plenty enough energy to level a major city and then some. I heard on the radio it traveled 17k miles CLOSER to earth than the moon. That's unnerving.
Wasn't the estimated size of the dino killer around 4-5 miles in diameter?
Edit: google says 6miles in diameter. I was close.
Wasn't the estimated size of the dino killer around 4-5 miles in diameter?
Edit: google says 6miles in diameter. I was close.
Oh no my brother---- NASA says it passed 48,000 miles from earth. Soooooooo if you were flying on any of the Apollo space missions at roughly 21,000 mph, headed to the moon, you'd have only been riding a few hours.
Lol, Aggsy all die without ever winning a national title. Eternal heavenly scoreboard.
I'm still struggling with how NASA didn't see it or say something about it. It's almost as if they didn't want us to know.
Like they didn't trust us not to riot.
Like they didn't trust us not to riot.
It's really not that big, by asteroids standards. It's a big sky and I highly doubt the average telescope can pick it up. the other thing that was mentioned is that the asteroid was coming from the direction of the sun so visability was blocked by the sun. Think of duck hunting and the ducks fly into the sun, you lose the ability to aim at them.
I'm curious what kind of telescope can see an Asteroid even the really big ones. The really scary thought is if a asteroid shower comes with more than one of those. Also keep in mind that if that Asteroid did hit the earth it would have been about 20-30% smaller due to entering the earth's atmosphere. Still big, but it goes from Jerry world size to TCU stadium size. Really, is anyone scared of TCU's stadium.
I'm curious what kind of telescope can see an Asteroid even the really big ones. The really scary thought is if a asteroid shower comes with more than one of those. Also keep in mind that if that Asteroid did hit the earth it would have been about 20-30% smaller due to entering the earth's atmosphere. Still big, but it goes from Jerry world size to TCU stadium size. Really, is anyone scared of TCU's stadium.
I was at TCU stadium for the 50-7 butt kicking in 2015.........so I'm a tad bit scared of that stadium
I will be back there for this years game.......please let this be two in a row for us!!!
A few weeks ago, some facebook posts in Texas, were reporting hearing a loud rumbling, explosion sound that spanned a few hundred miles. Wonder if this was that rock passing by?
It's not that. It's the principle of the matter.
These dudes study astrophysics. They are basically supposed to be the smartest people on the planet. So either they missed this asteroid and are incompetent or they knew about it and said nothing--- so they are liars.
Am I pretty certain our government would lie to it's citizens in order to prevent wide spread panic? Of course. They've been lying to us since "duck and cover" was created.
All I'm saying is I'm tired of living in a world where the powers that be treat me like they are my nanny or wet nurse. Just tell us the truth--- we can deal with it.
While you and I, and hopefully most people, could handle the truth; the truth of the matter is that the general population could not. Just think back to the market tanking in 2009. Damn hear had another great depression due to people be so scared that something bad was going to happen. Just imagine what the damage would be in they told us that we had a decent possibility of getting hit by an asteroid the size of a city block.
That goes back to the argument of "a person is smart. People are stupid."
This is the world we live in. It sucks that stupidity can't be made illegal or that Darwin can't rule the day. Unfortunately, helmets are required now for 11 year olds to masturbate.
First, to say nothing is not a lie.
I'm not sure you heard my man Billy Bob, but it most definitely is a big ass sky, and I'm quite sure we could never have the redonkulous budget it would take to monitor all of it.
A rock that size is less than a grain of sand in all that space. Not sure why you seem so convinced they couldn't have simply not seen it. It's like not seeing a speck of dust before it hits your windshield at 70 mph.
What else do those nerds have to do all day? We don't have a shuttle program anymore. We aren't currently doing moon missions. The private sector nerds are launching more rockets than NASA. Are all the nerds working on "Space Force"?
Face it dude, the nerds had one job. One job!
What else do those nerds have to do all day? We don't have a shuttle program anymore. We aren't currently doing moon missions. The private sector nerds are launching more rockets than NASA. Are all the nerds working on "Space Force"?
Face it dude, the nerds had one job. One job!
I hear World of Warcraft came out with a new expansion.
graduated with aerospace engineering. lots of friends still in the industry.
this thread is great.
this thread is great.
PBS had a great show back in June re the weaknesses we still have in detecting some asteroids.
I know we were calling this asteroid a city killer, what would have been the affect of it hitting the ocean? I imagine a pretty big ripple maybe even an earth quake. The worst place I can imagine it hitting is Yellow Stone or a fault line. No telling what would happen if it hit San Andres, but Yellow Stone would probably empty that whole caldera of Magma.
Well according to a nerd friend of mine who's a planetary scientist (fvcking nerd) if this asteroid was made of iron then as it entered the atmosphere is would have started melting and peeling back over itself only to have the back side cool as the heat would be upfront. And moving at 54,000 mph means that it would enter our atmosphere at such great velocity that the majority of those super heated iron would have boiled a crap ton of water and caused at minimum, a pretty big tsunami.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/asteroid-empire-state-building-earth.amp
Oh I get it. We get a warning about an asteroid passing us that's 4.5 million miles away but not a warning on one that passes 43,000 miles away. Good job trying to save face nerds, but you didn't.
Oh I get it. We get a warning about an asteroid passing us that's 4.5 million miles away but not a warning on one that passes 43,000 miles away. Good job trying to save face nerds, but you didn't.
Time to TTT this thread
2030 The god of Chaos is arriving
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...-god-of-chaos-asteroids-space-asteroid-impact
2030 The god of Chaos is arriving
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...-god-of-chaos-asteroids-space-asteroid-impact
Wait . . . what? We're supposed to be worried about asteroids flying past the earth? Crap, well I guess I've wasted my time worrying about Rosie O'Donnell exploding due to excess TACO BELL consumption. I lost sleep over that one.
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