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Record-setting asteroid to shave past Earth *THIS month

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Friday, February 1, 2013 5:31 AM

AURAPTOR

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All is well. Remain calm...

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An asteroid about half the size of a football field will zoom past Earth on Feb. 15, closer than the man-made satellites that power GPS, says NASA.

“This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL said in a video released by NASA this week. Yeomans, however, emphasized that the asteroid, designated 2012DA14, won’t hit Earth.

“It will come interestingly close, closer than many man-made satellites,” he said.

2012DA14 will thread the gap between low earth orbit, where the International Space Station and many earth observation satellites are located and the higher belt of geosynchronous satellites, which provide weather data and telecommunications.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/31/record-setting-asteroid-to-s
have-past-earth-next-month/#ixzz2JcNUMW5U





* correction form original headline.


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Friday, February 1, 2013 9:39 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.

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Monday, February 4, 2013 9:57 AM

RIONAEIRE

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That's interesting, will people be able to see it? Will it have a fiery tail perhaps? ...

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:12 AM

BYTEMITE


Probably only if it enters the atmosphere, or if anything might volatilize off the surface from solar radiation.

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:19 AM

CHRISISALL


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.


I fear for Rio...

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Monday, February 4, 2013 10:19 AM

CHRISISALL


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Damn Arachnids taking pot shots at us.


I fear for Rio...

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:56 PM

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 4:54 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


China builds ‘planetary defence’ team as concerns grow over 2024 YR4 asteroid

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3298116/china-builds-p
lanetary-defence-team-concerns-grow-over-2024-yr4-asteroid




Asteroid headed towards Earth might smash into the Moon, scientists say

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-earth-pass-moon-strike-ch
ina-b2696048.html



Giant Asteroid...




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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 7:38 PM

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 8:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Great. Even the fuckin' moon's gotta give us problems in the 2020s.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025 9:36 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Great. Even the fuckin' moon's gotta give us problems in the 2020s.





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Thursday, March 13, 2025 5:17 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472063-hera-asteroid-mission-tak
es-stunning-images-of-marss-moon-deimos
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Hera is the European contribution to an ESA-NASA double-spacecraft mission, which is intended to test whether a kinetic deflection technique can be used to shift the orbit of an asteroid.




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Friday, April 4, 2025 3:14 AM

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