A recently discovered asteroid had 'a very close encounter' with Earth

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There was no reason to panic — an asteroid shot past our planet harmlessly Thursday night, NASA says. The space agency says the object — the size of a large moving truck — made one of the closest approaches to Earth ever when it zipped over the Southern Hemisphere.

NASA described it as "a very close encounter with our planet."

The asteroid, dubbed 2023 BU, was only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface when it passed over South America's southern edge at 7:27 p.m. ET, NASA says.

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For comparison, that's a little shorter than a straight-line trip from New York City to Las Vegas, which is about 2,230 miles through the air.

"In fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded," said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, as the agency announced the close passage.

Even if it did hit our planet, the small asteroid's main effect would be visual, as it would become a fireball in our atmosphere, with some debris likely falling as small meteorites.


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The asteroid arrived on short notice: 2023 BU was just discovered on Saturday by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, who has previously been credited with discovering a number of comets and asteroids, including the first confirmed interstellar comet.

NASA's Scout system, which assesses potential hazards, quickly determined that 2023 BU wouldn't hit Earth but "make an extraordinarily close approach," said Farnocchia, who developed the system.

News of the visit comes at a time when NASA has put new emphasis on planetary defense, detecting and analyzing objects that could pose an impact hazard. Last year, it even tested a just-in-case plan to ram an asteroid, if it someday becomes necessary to redirect an object away from Earth.

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2023 BU is much smaller than many other close-passing asteroids that have made headlines in recent years, one of which was "the size of two Rose Bowl stadiums." But this asteroid is also coming much closer to our planet: some of those other objects stayed tens or hundreds of thousands of miles away.

The asteroid's visit brought it well within the cloud of geosynchronous satellites around Earth, getting around 10 times closer to the planet's surface than those objects, which maintain a high orbit.



 
I really want to make an electrogravitic drone so the next one that passes by I can make slow down and come into orbit. That would really make some people freak out and panic.

Especially IF it were to collide with our moon......,

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I imagine that action would really mess up our planetary tidal system,
not as much (if any) ebb or flow left without the moon's effect on our oceans.

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However, riding out on the calmer waters would be well worth it. ;)
 
I really want to make an electrogravitic drone so the next one that passes by I can make slow down and come into orbit. That would really make some people freak out and panic.

Come to think of it,
If you were able to do something of THAT nature,
why not use the Drone to pull them AWAY from our planet??

You achieve something like that,
you would have statues built in your honor. (y)
 
Come to think of it,
If you were able to do something of THAT nature,
why not use the Drone to pull them AWAY from our planet??
Yeah, I could do that... but bringing them into orbit is more fun. Maybe I could get a really big one and park it by the ISS. That could freak out some astronauts. Maybe I could do a slow drop to the surface and mine them.

You achieve something like that,
you would have statues built in your honor. (y)
Nah, the LWO would just kill me instead. Maybe I'd get a mini-mosoleum.
 
Considering what could fly past might be a hell off a lot bigger that a fast moving truck.

Would a much larger asteroid be faster or slower coming in?
 
Considering what could fly past might be a hell off a lot bigger that a fast moving truck.

Would a much larger asteroid be faster or slower coming in?

I think larger and faster would actually be better. I'm a firm believer in speeds above escape velocity would actually behave with an anti-gravity effect.
 
One of my more advanced orgonite clients was talking with it for a brief time, it's self chosen name was Angelique, which incidentally was also the name of her orgonite. Basically it's bringing in and revealing deep aspects to the shadows most of us have already worked on, but it's effecting some more heavily energetically that never did that work the first time around.
I've been slightly more energized since it's orbit was close enough.
 

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