Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Asteroid 2011 ES4

Asteroid 2011 ES4

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
11 Posts 8 Posters 103 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • George KG Offline
    George KG Offline
    George K
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_ES4#2020

    Around 1 September 2020 (±7 days) the asteroid is expected to pass about 0.0005 AU (75,000 km; 46,000 mi) from Earth.[2] But the asteroid could pass as far away as 0.11 AU (16,000,000 km; 10,000,000 mi),[2] which could make the asteroid much fainter and more difficult to recover. There is no risk of a 2020 impact because the line of variation (LOV) does not pass through where Earth will be. JPL Horizons predicts that the asteroid may be hidden in the suns glare until hours before closest approach. NEODyS does not expect the asteroid to be more than 50 degrees from the Sun until 21 August or to become brighter than magnitude 24 until 31 August with closest approach occurring on 5 September 2020.[5]

    alt text

    A screenshot from the JPL Small-Body Database Browser, showing Asteroid 2011 ES4 and Earth in close proximity on September 2, 2020 00:00 UTC

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • 89th8 Offline
      89th8 Offline
      89th
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      I know I’m the first person ever to say this but wow it’s amazing how lucky we are that this type of thing will pass us by.

      Aqua LetiferA 1 Reply Last reply
      • taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girl
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Kind of funny.

        They say it could be as close as 75000 km or maybe it will be 16000000 km away. We are not sure. (Bit difference!!!)

        BUT, it will not hit!!

        LOL They are not so sure on how close it will be but somehow sure it will not hit. Just kind of funny to me.

        1 Reply Last reply
        • HoraceH Offline
          HoraceH Offline
          Horace
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          75000 km is within about 5 earths away, so that seems legitimately close. 16,000,000 km is about 1300 earths away.

          Education is extremely important.

          1 Reply Last reply
          • 89th8 89th

            I know I’m the first person ever to say this but wow it’s amazing how lucky we are that this type of thing will pass us by.

            Aqua LetiferA Offline
            Aqua LetiferA Offline
            Aqua Letifer
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            @89th said in Asteroid 2011 ES4:

            amazing how lucky we are that this type of thing will pass us by.

            Are we really, though?

            Please love yourself.

            1 Reply Last reply
            • KlausK Offline
              KlausK Offline
              Klaus
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              I can haz SMOD?

              Sweet MeteorS 1 Reply Last reply
              • LarryL Offline
                LarryL Offline
                Larry
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                Why aren't hemorrhoids called asteroids?

                When women have them why aren't they called herorroihds?

                1 Reply Last reply
                • KlausK Klaus

                  I can haz SMOD?

                  Sweet MeteorS Offline
                  Sweet MeteorS Offline
                  Sweet Meteor
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #8

                  @Klaus said in Asteroid 2011 ES4:

                  I can haz SMOD?

                  alt text

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • KlausK Offline
                    KlausK Offline
                    Klaus
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #9

                    Please take us, SMOD! I love you!

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • Sweet MeteorS Offline
                      Sweet MeteorS Offline
                      Sweet Meteor
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #10

                      Dammit!

                      I came this close.

                      A car-size asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday.

                      That's a remarkably close shave – the closest ever recorded, in fact, according to asteroid trackers and a catalogue compiled by Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

                      Because of its size, the space rock most likely wouldn't have posed any danger to people on the ground had it struck our planet. But the close call is worrisome nonetheless, since astronomers had no idea the asteroid existed until after it passed by.

                      "The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the Sun," Paul Chodas, the director of NASA's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider.

                      "We didn't see it coming."

                      Instead, the Palomar Observatory in California first detected the space rock about six hours after it flew by Earth.

                      Chodas confirmed the record-breaking nature of the event: "Yesterday's close approach is closest on record, if you discount a few known asteroids that have actually impacted our planet," he said.

                      It's okay. The other one is only a couple of weeks away.

                      taiwan_girlT 1 Reply Last reply
                      • Sweet MeteorS Sweet Meteor

                        Dammit!

                        I came this close.

                        A car-size asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of Earth on Sunday.

                        That's a remarkably close shave – the closest ever recorded, in fact, according to asteroid trackers and a catalogue compiled by Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

                        Because of its size, the space rock most likely wouldn't have posed any danger to people on the ground had it struck our planet. But the close call is worrisome nonetheless, since astronomers had no idea the asteroid existed until after it passed by.

                        "The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the Sun," Paul Chodas, the director of NASA's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider.

                        "We didn't see it coming."

                        Instead, the Palomar Observatory in California first detected the space rock about six hours after it flew by Earth.

                        Chodas confirmed the record-breaking nature of the event: "Yesterday's close approach is closest on record, if you discount a few known asteroids that have actually impacted our planet," he said.

                        It's okay. The other one is only a couple of weeks away.

                        taiwan_girlT Offline
                        taiwan_girlT Offline
                        taiwan_girl
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #11

                        @Sweet-Meteor said in Asteroid 2011 ES4:

                        Because of its size, the space rock most likely wouldn't have posed any danger to people on the ground had it struck our planet.

                        Interesting. I thought something that size if it hit land would cause alot of damage.

                        The one in Siberia (1908 explosion) was about 150 -200 feet in diameter and did incredible damage. I know this one is much smaller, but still......

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        Reply
                        • Reply as topic
                        Log in to reply
                        • Oldest to Newest
                        • Newest to Oldest
                        • Most Votes


                        • Login

                        • Don't have an account? Register

                        • Login or register to search.
                        • First post
                          Last post
                        0
                        • Categories
                        • Recent
                        • Tags
                        • Popular
                        • Users
                        • Groups