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Originally posted by PunchingBag80
YU55 is going to be over 200,000 miles away from the earth. If anything it will be a nice light show. The other stuff might happen and it might not. This thread should be in Dreams and Predictions.
I do hope everyone is safe though,and if I'm wrong then so be it, people should all stay prepared just in case, but don't let the doom and gloom set in just yet.
Originally posted by JibbyJedi
People love saying that these harmless comets and asteroids will just glide safely by us. Most of the time that is true. This one is coming between the Earth and moon at 0.8 LD away, and I can confirm that Spaceweather has changed it from 175m to 200m in the past day or 2.
How does the Earth have the ability to capture something as big as our moon, at 1 LD away, yet these smaller objects never become new moons?
I know we capture small objects, but I'm talking about large enough to be naked eye visible. Some will say it's the moon's gravity combined with ours that captured it.... bs. If Earth can capture 2000 mile diameter objects, it can capture everything smaller than that.
The moon used to be much closer to the earth a few billions years ago. Its moving further away each year by 3.8 centimeters. The prevailing theory is that the moon was created by a major collision with Earth by a small planet and the material ejected from that collision became the moon. NASA has been using lasers to accurately measure the distance since the 1970s.
Originally posted by leemachino
reply to post by JibbyJedi
The point is that the Earth didn't capture the moon.
Originally posted by ignant
what other videos is ATS set up to EMBED other than YT??