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Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid        Date(UT)          Miss Distance      Velocity (km/s)       Diameter (m)
2012 TC4       2017-Oct-12       0.1 LD                 7.6                           16

http://spaceweather.com/


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How big is the Asteroid?  I followed the link but it seemed to be about unrelated stories. 


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I'm too lazy to look it up, but wasn't the one that came down in Russia a few years back about that size? 

I think you can relax Nan. 


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I'd rather set up a betting pool to see if it takes out any cell phone satellites.  ;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4779600/What-happen-asteroid-TC4-did-hit-Earth.html 


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Hey Nan, I think you need to conquer your fear by purchasing some meteorite from my bonkers aquantance:
http://www.spacerocksuk.com/

I was going to buy some space shuttle bits from him but never got around to it.


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Nawww, already gots a meteorite. (I used to be a "rock hound" when I was a kid.)....


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Did you find it yourself?  Where?


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I'm too lazy to look it up, but wasn't the one that came down in Russia a few years back about that size? 

I think you can relax Nan.

Muzzle velocity. It's going a thousand miles a second.
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. - AOC


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Did you find it yourself?  Where?

Meteor crater, Odessa, TX.

I think. (It was 50+ years ago....)  :)
« Last Edit: September 19, 2017, 09:18:17 PM by Nan D. »


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