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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2018, 11:57:49 PM »
And it's happening again.

On September 9, 2018, the near-Earth asteroid 2018 RC will come within 136,000 miles from the Earth’s surface, or about half the distance to the moon. The asteroid is about the size of a 20 story building and will come barrelling past Earth just after noon UTC on Sunday, September 9 - just five days after it was discovered. That's scary. If it was going to wipe out all life on Earth we wouldn't have known it even existed until we were 5 days away from dying.

The near-Earth asteroid 2018 RC, discovered by the ATLAS survey in Hawaii on September 3, 2018, and announced the next day by the Minor Planet Center, has an estimated diameter in the range of 100-230 feet. Just before its flyby, it will be visible with small (4 inch or larger) telescopes, as a 12th magnitude dot of light. At that brightness, it won't be visible to the eye alone. It will be around 8:00 AM so I wouldn't be up to see it anyway.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2018, 04:57:54 AM »
Just after 7:00 AM  Eastern Time, tomorrow.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2018, 02:44:22 PM »
Just after 7:00 AM  Eastern Time, tomorrow.

I'm on Eastern Time, but it's Eastern Daylight Time, not Eastern Standard Time. It would be only be a 4 hour difference instead of 5 because of that stupid Daylight Saving Time. Don't they use Daylight Saving Time where you are? It should pass by shortly after 8:00 AM.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2018, 03:44:51 PM »
We're still here so it must have missed us just like the one earlier this year.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #25 on: September 09, 2018, 05:05:32 PM »
Naw, we got hit and splattered all over the place.   Elon Musk said this isn't life....it's a simulation....so we're just being rerun in an alternate scenario.   :o   :o   :o   :o   :o   :o

No...really, the man said this reality that we enjoy is only a simulation.

I'm glad we didn't get splattered....and no, I don't think we are a simulation.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #26 on: September 09, 2018, 05:56:21 PM »
You could be asleep and dreaming. When you wake up everything could be different.
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