Two Huge Asteroids Heading This Way

Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:33 pm » by **Savwafair2012**

DOUBLE ASTEROID FLYBY:
It's a cosmic coincidence. Two asteroids, each about 10 to 15 meters wide, will fly past Earth within hours of one another on Sept. 8th. Although both are coming inside the orbit of the Moon, there is no danger of impact. At closest approach, 2010 RF12(http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2010%20RF12&orb=1)will be 77,000 km (0.2 LD) away; 2010 RX30(http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2010%20RX30&orb=1) will be even farther at 231,000 km (0.6 LD). Advanced amateur astronomers may be able to track the asteroids using these ephemerides. The fast-moving space rocks will shine like stars of 15th or 16th magnitude. Good luck, observers!

On September 7, 2010 there were 1144 potentially hazardous asteroids.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:15 pm » by **Echos185**

Its on sept 9th...extra day to live haha

so have a beer :cheers:

Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:29 pm » by **Savwafair2012**

BUMP

Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:43 pm » by **Easiiicom**

nice post ..
like posts like this give me something to lookout for..

Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:34 am » by **Rich316**

Nice post, but TWO BIG ASTEROIDS?? they're 10 metres and 15 metres in size... hardly worthy of being called BIG, you think?

Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:06 am » by **Echos185**

hardly worthy of being called BIG, you think?

15 meters is 45 feet right??? So don't that mean its the size of a 2 story house???

I don't know how much the atmosphere burns away...

but nasa says we have nothing to worry about and the world listens.

Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:22 am » by **Greatdestroyer**

Things could be worse. it could be a DOUBLE RAINBOW.

Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:40 am » by **Will69ease**

OK...
Somebody tell me why I should care.
Granted, it's interesting if you're into that kinda thing.
But if there was one of these that is going to hit,
NASA isn't going to tell us.