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The red dot near the center of theimage above is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by WISE. This particular asteroid, called 2010 AB78, is roughly one kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, and is currently about 158 million kilometers (98 million miles) away from Earth. Its elliptical-shaped orbit takes it out beyond Mars and back in about as close to the sun as Earth. Because the asteroid's orbit is tilted relative to the plane of our solar system, astronomers do not think it poses a hazard to our planet. As with all near-Earth objects, 2010 AB78 will continue to be monitored.
Originally posted by lildaddy985
I'm not saying that they found it, but I am saying that it is definitely possible.
Originally posted by lildaddy985
I am on the fence about the possibility of the ever-speculated upon Planet of the Crossing being a brown dwarf star system that is headed in our direction. I guess it's possible, but WHERE'S THE PROOF? There hasn't been a whole lot of evidence that even says that any brown dwarf stars are lurking about in our area of the Universe. Well I just happened upon this article today. It doesn't say that they have found Nibiru, but it does say that they have discovered 100,000 "Dark Objects" since they started looking for them with the W.I.S.E. telescope.
Check out this article: www.stumbleupon.com... tml
I'm not saying that they found it, but I am saying that it is definitely possible.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by lildaddy985
From what I understand W.I.S.E is out of commission. Mission ended back in February if I'm not mistaken.
Originally posted by BooKrackers
I would be quick to remind others that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was 6-8 km in size...roughly. That if anything this size with some decent mass to it struck land......whatever continent it hit.......3/4th would be instantly vaporized. The remaining globe would die in residual volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and any left over effect from the strike like tsunamis and heat from the fire caused by the asteroid. Even the possibility of static EMP effect produced by the entry into the atmosphere.
The very thing itself would suck the paint off yer house and give yer family a permanent orange Afro 900-1000 miles away from ground zero.
Now, use that to gauge what elenin (3-4 km) might do if she hit us......Or Asteroid 2005YU55 that's right behind elenin (400-600 ft)
You could imagine (again if the density is there) what would happen if one of these struck land in a major populated area.
BLOOEY
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by BlackDove
You are quite right about the light bulb in the dark room. In our solar system there is no dark spot except when an object blocks out the Sun.
But to be fair I did talk about larger objects, planet-sized objects. Smaller objects are not easy to spot. Just as we cannot easily see an approaching mosquito, a rock headed our way goes unnoticed. The bigger the object the less likely we are to miss it. There are whole sky surveys that look in all directions and scan for objects. These can see something the size of Earth out 320AU. That is really far away. Pluto is 50AU out at its farthest from the Sun.
Feb. 17, 2011 - The WISE Spacecraft transmitter was turned off for the final time at 12:00 noon PST today (Feb 17). WISE Principal Investigator Ned Wright sent the last command. The Spacecraft will remain in hibernation without ground contacts awaiting possible future use.