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Asteroid Passing Earth Will Be Closer Than Moon


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We are still safe but that's close ... not much news on it, just a mention.

"The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between the moon and Earth on Wednesday. DX110 will pass an estimated 217,000 miles from Earth."

Asteroid Passing Earth Will Be Closer Than Moon

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/24884193/asteroid-passing-earth-will-be-closer-than-moon#ixzz2v2AVf4eA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An asteroid is headed this way. But even though it will come closer than the moon, astronomers say it will pose no danger.

The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between the moon and Earth on Wednesday. DX110 will pass an estimated 217,000 miles from Earth.

That's approximately nine-tenths of the distance between the moon and Earth.

The asteroid is an estimated 45 to 130 feet across.

Relatively close approaches like this occur all the time, although DX110 is extra close.

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The solution to dealing with such possibly bad scenarios, can be garnered from that great iconic game we all know so well. Yes, the precursor to the eventual relief from these worries has long ago been fore-heralded by way of past (sometimes present) ....fun.

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Well, this is not the first time, I saw things fall from the sky in the horizon. It should occurring today or was it yesterday? Asides for that, Russia had one pass it, recently, this year. It is funny how these things never hit our planet, as proof of god, another question is what are these asteroids original source projectiles. Are these pieces of planets or scapes from a galatic struggle? Are these chunks of rock/metal just really from our own asteroid belt? I mean wow, amazing when you think about it. Otherwise, it still occurs.

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Beyond the orbit of Pluto, the Kuiper belt (named after the discoverer) contains hundreds of thousands of comet like bodies composed of ice and carbonaceous chondrites. The Kuiper belt dwarfs the asteroid belt in size. These are like large dirty snowballs. Whenever something perturbs them during their orbit around the sun, it can send them careening toward the inner solar system. Rogue comets from outside our solar system can perturb the orbits of comets in the Kuiper belt, also explosions from Super Novas can dislodge the comets, sending them inside the solar system.

Not that I disbelieve in God, but Earth has been hit by many comets and asteroids in its history. The traces of these impacts are washed away from geologic processes like erosion, sediment, water, vegetation. On places like the moon, however, where there are no geologic processes, the impact craters remain unchanged for eons.

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When was the last time, an Asteroid hit the planet earth, that caused an impact crater, that wiped out millions, and caused title waves, and tsunami's?

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Siberia, 1908. Didn't kill anyone, but it could have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

The energy of the explosion was about 1,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan; roughly equal to that of the United States' Castle Bravo ground-based thermonuclear test detonation on March 1, 1954; and about two-fifths that of the Soviet Union's later Tsar Bomba (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated).

It is estimated that the Tunguska explosion knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi), and that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude would be capable of destroying a large metropolitan area, but due to the remoteness of the location few if any fatalities were documented. This event has helped to spark discussion of asteroid impact avoidance.

Bear in mind, about 70% of the Earth's surface is water. A tidal wave might be the only indication there ever was an impact, so there would be no crater left behind.

This one slammd into Jupiter in 1994.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9

Here's one from china in 1490. Killed more than 10,000 people.

1490 Ch'ing-yang event

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Jupiter as a "cosmic vacuum cleaner"

From the wikipedia article above*

The impact of SL9 highlighted Jupiter's role as a kind of "cosmic vacuum cleaner" for the inner Solar System. The planet's strong gravitational influence leads to many small comets and asteroids colliding with the planet, and the rate of cometary impacts on Jupiter is thought to be between two thousand and eight thousand times higher than the rate on Earth. If Jupiter were not present, the probability of asteroid impacts with the Solar System's inner planets would be much greater.

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Very interesting about Jupiter carrying the load to help the rest of us out ! We still get a hit every so often but it could be much worse if the "Big Guy" wasn't there.

"The impact of SL9 highlighted Jupiter's role as a kind of "cosmic vacuum cleaner" for the inner Solar System. The planet's strong gravitational influence leads to many small comets and asteroids colliding with the planet, and the rate of cometary impacts on Jupiter is thought to be between two thousand and eight thousand times higher than the rate on Earth. If Jupiter were not present, the probability of asteroid impacts with the Solar System's inner planets would be much greater."

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When was the last time, an Asteroid hit the planet earth, that caused an impact crater, that wiped out millions

Well... the Dinosaurs I guess. We've been pretty lucky so far :-)

Wasn't their also that meteor that hit Russia some time lately. It was no were nearly as destructive as the one you posted, but still destructive.

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