Near Earth Objects

[Coast]

I had the Google app on to try and see the asteroid, but in the end the cloud obscured the view.

[Methuselah]

Had a wee look at the live coverage wotsit, yesterday; and there's nowt more gripping than looking at a quasi-stationary blur surrounded by a white circle...Without doubt, the best entertainment since I painted the bathroom wall!

[Polar Maritime]

Had a wee look at the live coverage wotsit, yesterday; and there's nowt more gripping than looking at a quasi-stationary blur surrounded by a white circle...Without doubt, the best entertainment since I painted the bathroom wall!

Yes very true RP, I had a glance at the live wotsit last night... Im painting my bathroom today, of all the day's..

[Polar Maritime]

GOOD-BYE 2012 DA14: Asteroid

few past Earth on Feb. 15th inside the orbit of many geosynchronous satellites. At closest approach, around 2:25 pm EST, the 45-meter wide space rock was only 17,200 miles above Indonesia. No satellites were damaged by the flyby, and the asteroid is now receding from Earth.

Using a 3" refractor at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, Aaron Kingery captured this image of 2012 DA14 passing in front of the eta Carina Nebula:

NASA's Goldstone radar in the Mojave Desert will ping the space rock for the next four days to refine its orbit and map its surface features. Researchers will look carefully for signs that Earth's gravity might have caused seismic activity on the asteroid. http://www.spaceweather.com/

[Polar Maritime]

Why Are We Not Suddenly Getting Hit By So Many Space Rocks?

http://www.slate.com...ng_so_many.html

Edited February 18, 2013 by Polar Maritime

[Methuselah]

We're not?

[Polar Maritime]

We're not?

Very true RP.. I have edited the title of the link, so not to confuse anyone on this forum..

[ZONE 51]

2004FU 162

Next Earth close approach Date 2013/03/17 Nominal distance 0.1239699 AU 18545633 km Risk Object is in risk list Object is not in priority list

18545633 km

The next NEO due 3/17/13 (news said 2029??next NEO)

The above is classed as a risk.

http://neo.ssa.esa.int/web/guest/search-for-objects?sum=1&des=2004FU162

Recent Asteroid passed at 27,700km comparing 2012DA14 to - 2004FU 162 to pass as close as - 18545633 km then it's not much to worry about then!

Edited February 19, 2013 by ElectricSnowStorm

[Polar Maritime]

The Year of the Comets: Three Reasons Why 2013 Could be the Best Ever

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/100049/the-year-of-the-comets-three-reasons-why-2013-could-be-the-best-ever/#ixzz2LNN5wMgV

[Polar Maritime]

http://vimeo.com/59571509

[Polar Maritime]

A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth's neighborhood this weekend, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet.

The 330-foot-wide (100 meters)asteroid 2013 ET will miss Earth by 600,000 miles (960,000 kilometers) when it zips by on Saturday (March 9). The space rock flyby will come just days after the 33-foot (10 m) asteroid 2013 EC approached within 230,000 miles (370,000 km) of us early Monday (March 4).

When asteroid 2013 ET passes Earth, it will be at a range equivalent to 2.5 times the distance between the planet and the moon, making it too faint and far away for most stargazers to spot in the night sky. http://www.space.com/20085-asteroid-buzzes-earth-this-weekend.html

[Boro Snow]

A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth's neighborhood this weekend, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet.

The 330-foot-wide (100 meters)asteroid 2013 ET will miss Earth by 600,000 miles (960,000 kilometers) when it zips by on Saturday (March 9). The space rock flyby will come just days after the 33-foot (10 m) asteroid 2013 EC approached within 230,000 miles (370,000 km) of us early Monday (March 4).

When asteroid 2013 ET passes Earth, it will be at a range equivalent to 2.5 times the distance between the planet and the moon, making it too faint and far away for most stargazers to spot in the night sky. http://www.space.com...is-weekend.html

yeah they does seem to be a lot of these objects all of a sudden i wonder if we are passing through some kind of dirty space

[Polar Maritime]

A BIG ASTEROID APPROACHES: Near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 is approaching the Earth-Moon system for a flyby on May 31st. There's no danger of a collision; at closest approach the asteroid will be 3.6 million miles away. Even at that distance, however, the 1.7-mile-wide space rock will be an easy target for mid-sized backyard telescopes. Using a 14-inch Celestron, Alberto Quijano Vodniza of Narino, Colombia took this picture of 1998 QE2 on May 17th: http://www.spaceweather.com/

 

 

[Polar Maritime]

Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space

 

 

More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding.  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-207

[Gray-Wolf]

It appears that even the small ones could cause issues if they 'air burst' like the russian one earlier this year? As such do we have the instrumentation to pick out the sizes that are more common impacters?