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Asteroid 2012 TC4
Nasa Announcement ->Link
Hold on a second.
What they are trying to tell me here is it can't come nearer than 4200 miles
BUT
it will more likely be 170000 miles farther away?
I have not found a reason so far why this uncertainty in distance only occurs in the desired direction.
4200 miles. You tell that the fat kid and he uses one of his toys to take it down.
Just kidding but this looks awfully close to me.
Earth gravitation will affect this one for sure, probably did already the last time it flew by 2012 @59000 miles.
Have to look that up how much gravity would be left at that distance (inverse square?) with a hypothetical weight of the Chelyabinsk meteor.
It seems to me they knew more about that Asteroid as older the articles get you find on search engines.
One from 2015 -> Link
And of course a goodie. Life coverage of the 2012 fly-by by slooth.
Very interesting and I do not get any relaxed vibe from these guys looking at it flying by. Just listen in.
Now Nasa wants to tell me that with this exact Asteroid approaching they want to test all they got, just to test it? (the test part is the unbelievable not why they do it)
Don't get me wrong, there is information and articles out there if you look for them, but nowhere near the number of articles and hype this should make in the media.
It feels like the existing coverage dissapears in the noise of the newsstream very fast.
You cannot deny the possibilty of this one actually hitting something.
10-30 meters you say? Unknown weight, I suppose?
Imagine the Chelyabinsk meteor coming down in the wrong spot.
High density populations, nuclear reactors, unstable faults, known or unknow super calderas etc pp you name it.
In my opinion crazy to downplay the issue. Seems to work though.
Understandable? I wouldn't know if people actually will go crazy, but it is highly possible.
I am also pretty sure that this is not treated that lightly as it appears.
Chelyabinsk meteor was about 20 meters, 12000 -13000 metric tons and left really troubling results.
Looks like the asteroids making it have a tendency to explode. Tunguska would make another example of this it seems.
The infrasound the Chelyabinsk meteor created is in my opinion scary in itself.
Hard to imagine it not affecting planet earth.
The core, the tectonic plates, fault lines or whatever else there is with aversion to vibration that we know or don't know of.
It is not a Doomsday Asteroid i get that. But one that can actually do damage? Hell yeah.
Have you heard/read of it?
Thoughts?
Nasa Announcement ->Link
NASA scientists are excited about the upcoming close flyby of a small asteroid and plan to use its upcoming October close approach to Earth as an opportunity not only for science, but to test NASA’s network of observatories and scientists who work with planetary defense.
a small asteroid estimated to be between 30 and 100 feet (10 and 30 meters) in size. On Oct. 12, TC4 will safely fly past Earth. Even though scientists cannot yet predict exactly how close it will approach, they are certain it will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) from the surface of Earth. The asteroid has been out of range of telescopes since 2012.
Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have determined that while at closest approach, asteroid 2012 TC4 will pass no closer than 4,200 miles from Earth -- it will more likely pass much farther away, as far as 170,000 miles (270,000 kilometers), or two-thirds of the distance from Earth to the moon. These calculations are based on only seven days of tracking 2012 TC4 after it was discovered on Oct. 5, 2012, by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) from Haleakala on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Further observations are needed to more precisely determine the asteroid’s orbit.
Hold on a second.
What they are trying to tell me here is it can't come nearer than 4200 miles
BUT
it will more likely be 170000 miles farther away?
I have not found a reason so far why this uncertainty in distance only occurs in the desired direction.
4200 miles. You tell that the fat kid and he uses one of his toys to take it down.
Just kidding but this looks awfully close to me.
Earth gravitation will affect this one for sure, probably did already the last time it flew by 2012 @59000 miles.
Have to look that up how much gravity would be left at that distance (inverse square?) with a hypothetical weight of the Chelyabinsk meteor.
It seems to me they knew more about that Asteroid as older the articles get you find on search engines.
One from 2015 -> Link
And of course a goodie. Life coverage of the 2012 fly-by by slooth.
Very interesting and I do not get any relaxed vibe from these guys looking at it flying by. Just listen in.
Now Nasa wants to tell me that with this exact Asteroid approaching they want to test all they got, just to test it? (the test part is the unbelievable not why they do it)
Don't get me wrong, there is information and articles out there if you look for them, but nowhere near the number of articles and hype this should make in the media.
It feels like the existing coverage dissapears in the noise of the newsstream very fast.
You cannot deny the possibilty of this one actually hitting something.
10-30 meters you say? Unknown weight, I suppose?
Imagine the Chelyabinsk meteor coming down in the wrong spot.
High density populations, nuclear reactors, unstable faults, known or unknow super calderas etc pp you name it.
In my opinion crazy to downplay the issue. Seems to work though.
Understandable? I wouldn't know if people actually will go crazy, but it is highly possible.
I am also pretty sure that this is not treated that lightly as it appears.
Chelyabinsk meteor was about 20 meters, 12000 -13000 metric tons and left really troubling results.
Looks like the asteroids making it have a tendency to explode. Tunguska would make another example of this it seems.
The infrasound the Chelyabinsk meteor created is in my opinion scary in itself.
Hard to imagine it not affecting planet earth.
The core, the tectonic plates, fault lines or whatever else there is with aversion to vibration that we know or don't know of.
The bulk of the object's energy was absorbed by the atmosphere, with a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact estimated from infrasound and seismic measurements to be equivalent to the blast yield of a nuclear weapon in the 400–500 kiloton (about 1.4–1.8 PJ) range – 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.
The infrasound waves given off by the explosions were detected by 20 monitoring stations designed to detect nuclear weapons testing run by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission, including the distant Antarctic station, some 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) away. The blast of the explosion was large enough to generate infrasound returns, after circling the globe, at distances up to about 85,000 kilometres (53,000 mi). Multiple arrivals involving waves that travelled twice around the globe have been identified. The meteor explosion produced the largest infrasounds ever to be recorded by the CTBTO infrasound monitoring system, which began recording in 2001,[56][57][58] so great that they reverberated around the world several times, taking over a day to dissipate.
It is not a Doomsday Asteroid i get that. But one that can actually do damage? Hell yeah.
Have you heard/read of it?
Thoughts?
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