Potential Impact Zone & Time of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Defined On Google Earth and Government Documents

[color=dodgerblue]I will dig up sources if anyone wishes but just wanted to throw something out there really quick..

JPL gets a great deal of their information from amateur astronomers/private observatories. Many NEOs/PHAs are discovered by these individuals. The trajectories are calculated from their observations.

There are thousands of them and they are from all over the world.

Do you really think that NASA could keep them ALL quiet?

The closest approach to Earth and the Moon will be respectively 0.00217 AU and 0.00160 AU on 2011 November 8 at 23:28 and November 9 at 07:13 UT.

0.00217AU=324,627.66KM from us

0.00160AU=239,356.8KM from our moon

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Not even in the category or 'coming right for us'. Not even close.


Here is a picture to put it in perspective.

Source

edit on 7-11-2011 by daryllyn because: (no reason given)

reply to post by daryllyn


You again!?!?

Didn't I already chastise you for trying to inject reason and logic into these threads.

For shame, Daryllyn. For shame.

Originally posted by daryllyn
[color=dodgerblue]I will dig up sources if anyone wishes but just wanted to throw something out there really quick..

JPL gets a great deal of their information from amateur astronomers/private observatories. Many NEOs/PHAs are discovered by these individuals. The trajectories are calculated from their observations.

There are thousands of them and they are from all over the world.

Do you really think that NASA could keep them ALL quiet?

The closest approach to Earth and the Moon will be respectively 0.00217 AU and 0.00160 AU on 2011 November 8 at 23:28 and November 9 at 07:13 UT.

0.00217AU=324,627.66KM from us

0.00160AU=239,356.8KM from our moon

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Not even in the category or 'coming right for us'. Not even close.


Here is a picture to put it in perspective.

Source

edit on 7-11-2011 by daryllyn because: (no reason given)

but really, lets say it is going to hit us. Whould NASA really want that info out that we are about to get blasted? I dont think so. they would try there best to keep it Hush Hush

reply to post by ColAngus

How come you believe NASA with regards to the date it's closest to the Earth, but not any of their other information re: trajectory, etc.?

Welcome to ATS.
Stick around this site for awhile, and it shouldn't take too much longer before you stop asking that question. Selective abstraction is quite common around here.

[color=C1FFD7]Selective Abstraction:

[color=87B396]a type of cognitive distortion in which focus on one aspect of an event, negates all other aspects.

or the wiki definition:

In clinical psychology, selective abstraction is a type of cognitive bias in which a detail is taken out of context and believed whilst everything else in the context is ignored.

reply to post by Glassbender777

Ya I know, I tried to post the Image, If you see, I also tried to edit it, read buddy

So instead of asking how to do it correctly, you just go back and change the words, while leaving the error? That's odd. Asking for assistance, most likely would have proven to be more productive.

Originally posted by ColAngus
reply to post by daryllyn

 

You again!?!?

Didn't I already chastise you for trying to inject reason and logic into these threads.

For shame, Daryllyn. For shame.

edit on 7-11-2011 by ColAngus because: (no reason given)

[color=dodgerblue]Oooooh right..

I forgot! What was I thinking?

reply to post by camaro68ss

[color=deepskyblue]
I don't think that NASA has the kind of power that you are giving them.

I am going to wake up tomorrow. Drink my coffee. Clean my house. Study for my quiz. Go to class. And be home in time to put my kids to bed.

Just as I do any other day of my life and ya know what? Nothing is going to happen.

198,000 miles at its closest, almost as far out as the moon itself.

The only way this thing is going to worry me is if it changes course on it's own and starts spitting scout craft in our direction.

Otherwise, a big yawn, and not much else. I won't even be able to get much of a look at it with my beefiest telescope - too small and too far away.

"Potential impact zone", my eye...

reply to post by Gwampo


Most people think an asteroid the size of an Aircraft Carrier is not going to do a lot of damage and they'ed be wrong.

Look at Meteor Crater (also know as Barringer Crater) in Arizona, it was created by an impact of a meteorite 50,000 years ago. The Meteorite was 50 meters (164 feet) across, impacted at a speed of 28,000 - 45,000 mph, and released an estimated 10 megatons of energy.

The Crater it self is 4,000 ft in diameter, 570 ft deep, and is surrounded by a rim that is 150 ft above the surrounding plains.

And according to research what impacted was only about half of the meteorite. YU 55 is a full blown ASTEROID.

Then there is also the TUNGUSKA Event which occurred in Russia at about 7:14am on June 30th, 1908.

The Explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteorite or comet fragment at an altitude of 3 - 6 miles above the earths surface. The size of the meteorite is UNKNOW. Estimates of the energy released range from 5 - 30 megatons or more conservative estimates of 10-15 megatons which is still 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The explosion knocked over an estimated 830 Sq. Mi. of forest, The impact from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.

The first surveys of the area were not done until 1927, 19 years after the Event and even to this day though the area has mostly recovered you can still find downed trees from the blast 103 years later.


So yes it may appear small but it could pack a hell of a punch.

Originally posted by Gwampo
thats peculiar.. an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier crashing into the ocean will only make a tsunami with waves barely over a meter??

A meter while still on the ocean.

As the tsunami reaches the shoreline the excess water gets pushed up and the waves "rise up"

A tsunami of a meter in all directions is pretty massive.

Whilst it's true there's such a large number of amateur astronomers, what if they're afraid of speaking because NASA or its affiliates would hunt them down?

Fortunately, it looks like you were wrong.

Yahooooo!

Originally posted by karen61057
reply to post by tomten

 

Well your analogy is a little off. Say we have a 10 story building and the earth is on the first floor and the moon is on the 10 floor. This will hit about the 8th floor.

No... You only look at it 2-dimensional.
You has to look at in 3-dimensions!

In 2-D is goes between Earth and the Moon.
But, if you look at it in 3-D , then the Asteroid never is in any way close to neither Earth or the Moon..
...Because it goes by ABOVE the path of the Earth / Moon path's!!