YU55, asteroid to come between earth and moon November 8th. Does this cause you worry?

I could care less, I don’t live in a state of paranoid fatalism.

It is highly doubtful that earth will be effected.

Remember the old addage ” only believe half of what you hear and nothing that you read.” haha

Sounds like you’re kinda into drama, so, have fun with it if it feeds a need for excitement in your life. lol

I think Imma gonna hold off on my truck payment till after :\

It’s a fly-by shooting star, not a drive-by shooting.

Gravity calculations are extremely accurate. If they don’t think it’ll fall to Earth, I’m not concerned.

Sweet. Will we be able to see this asteroid with the naked eye or would you need a telescope?

Whatevz.

it cannot be seen with the naked eye, because it is charcoal black, relatively far away, and also it will pass in the early evening while the sun is setting and still to bright to give a good contrast. The best place to see it is on the US east coast at 6:28pm, with a decent sized telescope.looking to the east. Scientist agree there is a zero chance of impact with the earth or the moon.

No, it’s going to miss.

@DrBill thanks for the info. Shame, im on the east coast and all just no decent sized telescope

I reckon there’s more chance of santa’s sleigh hitting my soft head as I frolic naked in the snow covered confines of the garden.

Na.

I don’t care BECAUSE MY BIRTHDAY IS ONE DAY BEFORE THAT.
Yep, too wasted to care.

Yes, it worries me. Because it will miss.

Not anything my being worried about it will change, so I won’t.

- On Oct 28, 2011, object 2011 UA193 came close to earth, and missed us by 12.5 times the distance to the moon.

- On Oct 29, 2011, object 2011 LC19 came close to earth, and missed us by 22.6 times the distance to the moon.

- On Oct 30, 2011, objet 2011 UU63 came close to earth, and missed us by 12.6 times the distance to the moon.

- On Oct 31, 2011, objects 2010 VU98, 2011 UC276, 2011 VU5 and 2011 UY114 came close to earth, and missed us by 18 to 56 times the distance to the moon.

- On Nov 1, 2011, objects 2011 UP63, 2011 TK, and 2011 UD64 came close to earth, and missed us 10.9 to 52 times the distance to the moon.

This is not a strange week, there are about 100 such events to come between now and January, the only reason this one is getting attention is because of it’s path, but you can rest sure this thing wont hit us, and if it does, a bottle of water wont help you. that thing is almost a kilometer in size.

Also, on the same day, we can expect 3 others to pass by, XB1, LM68 and JY26.

Yes, this thing is going to be passing very close, but we are safe, for now. ... We really should start looking in to building something to protect from this kind of thing.

Here’s something I’d like to know… If an “object” approaches the planet at an obtuse angle, like a shallow trajectory if you will, will it ricochet off the atmosphere and go careening out into space or will the shear mass of the thing just bust through and get us anyway? Seems likely it would hit if it came out of space at a straight on shot straight down into us. When in grade school when all the Apollo flights were going on I was told that re-entry for the astronauts was tricky if they came in wrong that too steep they would burn up and too shallow of an angle the capsule would glance off and be lost forever. I used to have nightmares about this shit.

I live on the east coast and I own a decent-sized telescope, but my my house is surrounded by trees… Ah, I’ll figure something out.

The object is going to pass us .85 times the distance of the moon…. meaning it will be closer to us than the moon.

We had a similar close passing in 1976 and the experts had NO forewarning about it.

This objects trajectory and habits are well known now so I think there is nothing to worry about in it’s regards. It’s size, while not insignificant, is not so large or so dense to have any influence on the gravity here on Earth or on the Moon.

We are excited and hope to catch glimpses of it as it passes this week.

I think we should send Bruce Willis to check it out just in case.

Even if I knew that it was going to be a direct hit on… well, not on Connecticut, let’s say, but on Florida… then I wouldn’t “worry”. What good does worry do, anyway? I’ve never worried myself out of a problem or worried a solution. If I thought there was something to do to make my chances of survival better (such as start driving to Florida if I thought it was going to land in Connecticut), then I’d start doing that thing, whatever it was. But worry? That wouldn’t be one of the things to do. Not on my agenda.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

The more I learn about astronomy, the less I worry. Not because it can’t be a potential threat, but because there are so many potential threats like this that I can’t possibly worry about all of them.

@Luiveton Happy Birt {Redacted}

@zensky Thank you! Finally someone nice decided to wish me a happy birthday.. >___>

Happens all the time.

So, no.