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NASA just discovered Asteroid 2011 WP4. Estimated diameter 12M-27M
“NEO Advisory on Friday Nov 18 2011 NASA has located a very new Near Earth Object to pass very near to earth on NOV 24 2011.
This object was just discovered on Friday. Therefore NASA has had limited data to make orbit projections on 2011 WP4. The level of uncertainty is one level below maximum uncertainty. In layman’s terms they have basically took an educated guess as to if it will miss earth or not.”
Originally posted by SunnyDee
Just noticed this story and thought it was worth sharing.
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NASA just discovered Asteroid 2011 WP4. Estimated diameter 12M-27M
“NEO Advisory on Friday Nov 18 2011 NASA has located a very new Near Earth Object to pass very near to earth on NOV 24 2011.
This object was just discovered on Friday. Therefore NASA has had limited data to make orbit projections on 2011 WP4. The level of uncertainty is one level below maximum uncertainty. In layman’s terms they have basically took an educated guess as to if it will miss earth or not.”
Here is the JPL orbital diagram for it.
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov...
This was just discovered on the 18th of November and there has been very little time to configure its exact path.
Condition 8 means that there is extreme uncertainty of it's trajectory. Its closest approach is .0038 on the 24th.
Don't know what to say here, other than, I thought we were sure that YU55 was the closest thing past and present for years coming our way.
This asteroid is rather small, but if it hit earth I'd have to imagine, it would take out a few city blocks.
That's all I have for now, but will share more as I read more info.edit on 21-11-2011 by SunnyDee because: (no reason given)