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City Killer Asteroids
« on: July 26, 2019, 10:11:33 AM »
Ok, I'm for an attention-grabbing headline as much as anyone, but this one jumped out of my coffee cup this morning. Earth just had a near-miss with a 'city killer' asteroid   https://uk.news.yahoo.com/earth-just-had-a-near-miss-with-a-killer-asteroid-175546112.html

Asteroid 2019OK has been on the list of NEOs on Spaceweather.com for  a while - I read about it there a few days ago. Although everything I read in the press says it was only confirmed in the last couple of days.  Unnerving when you click the link to run the simulation of the orbital path, though.  :o

That woulda been messy.

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Re: City Killer Asteroids
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2019, 01:01:27 PM »
Quote from: Nan D. on July 26, 2019, 10:11:33 AM
Ok, I'm for an attention-grabbing headline as much as anyone, but this one jumped out of my coffee cup this morning. Earth just had a near-miss with a 'city killer' asteroid   https://uk.news.yahoo.com/earth-just-had-a-near-miss-with-a-killer-asteroid-175546112.html

Asteroid 2019OK has been on the list of NEOs on Spaceweather.com for  a while - I read about it there a few days ago. Although everything I read in the press says it was only confirmed in the last couple of days.  Unnerving when you click the link to run the simulation of the orbital path, though.  :o

That woulda been messy.



Yikes!  :o. I think I'd rather not have known that...  ;D  ;)
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Re: City Killer Asteroids
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2019, 03:08:00 PM »
Yeah, it missed by 34,000 miles. Which isn't a lot, in the grand scheme of things!
I'm surprised the news wasn't all over the story, and a lot earlier. ;) 8)
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Re: City Killer Asteroids
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2019, 03:35:22 PM »
Quote from: Nan D. on July 26, 2019, 03:08:00 PM
Yeah, it missed by 34,000 miles. Which isn't a lot, in the grand scheme of things!
I'm surprised the news wasn't all over the story, and a lot earlier. ;) 8)

A hair's breadth...  :o
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Re: City Killer Asteroids
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2019, 06:00:16 PM »
Human nature is funny:

Holy crap we almost all died!

Pizza for dinner?
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