First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered by Pan-STARRS Telescope

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2010) — The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered in images acquired on September 16, when it was about 20 million miles away.

I cant say much..But its interesting and i thought it may interest some of you.

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Good day!

Thanx for the S+F but.. i would of thought there would be more concern. Can some one tell me if theres nothing to be concerned about?

Ive never seen pottentially hazadous asteroid in an article before.

Wow, so what is that? Like 100 lunar units away? Plenty of time for the USN Space Fleet to launch from the pacific and intercept!

hoo Ahhh

How old are you now? Unless you are very young you probably don't need to worry about it. Your kids only slightly more and depending on where they will be living at the time.

Objects the size of 2010 ST3 usually break up in Earth’s atmosphere, but the resulting blast wave on the surface can still devastate an area covering hundreds of square miles. “There is a very slight possibility that ST3 will hit Earth in 2098, so it is definitely worth watching,” Jedicke said.

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Originally posted by Phage
How old are you now? Unless you are very young you probably don't need to worry about it. Your kids only slightly more.
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Unless we're all robots by the years 2035.
Fingers crossed.

The moon is about 240,000 miles away.
This asteroid will be 4 million miles away.
It's a long ways out there.
No worries.

AlphaANDOmega's thread is Pointless...

Its like having a child pretend to be a knowledgable astrophysicist...

WHO??? is going to listen? ...When people can just see the skies and research for themselfs?

"Ha Ha"
- Nelson Muntz