Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 14:55 last edited by
Asteroid hidden by sun’s glare
On July 15, 2023, the ATLAS observatory in South Africa discovered an asteroid up to 200 feet (60 m) in size two days after it passed closest to Earth. Astronomers designated the asteroid 2023 NT1. And NASA called it airplane-sized. Compare 2023 NT1 to the asteroid that hit Arizona some 50,000 years ago, leaving the large, famous Barringer Crater, aka Meteor Crater. The asteroid that made Meteor Crater might have been only slightly smaller (about 160 feet or 50 m in size). The newly discovered asteroid passed within only one-quarter the moon’s distance. It came closest to Earth at 10:12 UTC on July 13, 2023.
It missed us. It wasn’t a threat to Earth. But why didn’t one of our observatories pick it up sooner? The reason is the asteroid came at us from the direction of the sun, a known weak spot in our defense against space rocks.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 15:00 last edited by
60K miles...
Missed it by that much.
Damn.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 15:12 last edited by
The Universe is a dangerous place.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 18:13 last edited by
So the aliens know how, use the sun as a glare/blinding to sneak attack us.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 18:14 last edited by
Also, the article wasn't very scientific. It didn't even say how many giraffes the asteroid's size was.
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 20:37 last edited by
It did use an airplane for a relative size. WTF? What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
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It did use an airplane for a relative size. WTF? What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 20:51 last edited by@mark said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth:
What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
"an asteroid up to 200 feet (60 m) in size"
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wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 20:56 last edited by Copper
So slightly less length than a 747 or A380, close to a Concorde.
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@mark said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth:
What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
"an asteroid up to 200 feet (60 m) in size"
wrote on 18 Jul 2023, 21:24 last edited by@George-K said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth:
@mark said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth:
What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
"an asteroid up to 200 feet (60 m) in size"
I read that. I was just being silly with 89th's response.
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wrote on 19 Jul 2023, 12:42 last edited by
Did we toss some Tardigrades at it?
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It did use an airplane for a relative size. WTF? What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
wrote on 19 Jul 2023, 12:52 last edited by@mark said in Asteroid found 2 days after brush by Earth:
It did use an airplane for a relative size. WTF? What kind of airplane? A piper cub? An Airbus 380? A paper airplane?
And how many giraffes is that?