Found HIP 234 30 near Earth

I have just done a simulation of anything near the earth and I stopped on 8th Jan 2014 and there is a HIP 234 30 near the earth more closer then our moon. This has me worried as I tried to check online for this HIP 234 30 and I cannot find any information. This photo is screenshot taken on Stellerium please take the time to look yourselves and make sure I'm not wrong. All info is in my screenshot. I was on the Pansstars as that was the best view to get the two as some reason when I tried to view earth and HIP 234 30 on the moon it was not visible.

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Not sure I follow what you are getting at here. What do you mean you just did a simulation of anything near Earth? You think this is an object that has been identified? You think this is some object that is going to hit earth in Jan 2014?

Getting closer than the moon is no danger in itself.

Actually, the last comet that passed between moon and earth the other week, was barely visible with the naked eye.

Originally posted by Vasa Croe
Not sure I follow what you are getting at here. What do you mean you just did a simulation of anything near Earth? You think this is an object that has been identified? You think this is some object that is going to hit earth in Jan 2014?

edit on 3/22/13 by Vasa Croe because: (no reason given)

I'm saying that in my simulation we are not alone and I don't know if HIP 234 30 will get caught in our orbit as there haven't been something like this near us before so I cannot comment if this will affect us. Please be aware this was from a simulation and it just caught my attention. I'm not trying to cause a doom thread at all.

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As far as I understand it, he didn't mention an impact.

Just that the object in question appears to pass earth at a distance less than one LD ( Lunar Distance )

Correct me if I'm wrong though.


@ Sk8tergurl: What do you mean by "trapped in earth orbit" ? You didn't mention that initially.

What I find weird is that I cannot find any information on the HIP 234 30 online

Originally posted by Sk8ergrl
What I find weird is that I cannot find any information on the HIP 234 30 online

That's because you need to search it correctly.....HIP23430...the numbers are supposed to be one number. You will get many hits when you search it this way. And add the word Stellarium in the search for more relevance.

Originally posted by H1ght3chHippie
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As far as I understand it, he didn't mention an impact.

Just that the object in question appears to pass earth at a distance less than one LD ( Lunar Distance )

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

I'm not sure about impact as our own emf could pull it into our own orbit. Oh I'm a she btw lol

Originally posted by Vasa Croe

Originally posted by Sk8ergrl
What I find weird is that I cannot find any information on the HIP 234 30 online

That's because you need to search it correctly.....HIP23430...the numbers are supposed to be one number. You will get many hits when you search it this way. And add the word Stellarium in the search for more relevance.

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Thank you Vasa Croe for showing me how to find the object

HR 1628 (HIP 23430) HR 1628 is an orange giant star in the constellation Lepus. At 233 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 5.01. The iron abundance of HR 1628 is +0.11 (128.8% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 47.6 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 13,400 and 24,500 light years from the center of the Galaxy. It came closest to the Sun 845,000 years ago when it had brightened to magnitude 4.57 from a distance of 190 light years. Sky position: RA 5h 2.2m, Dec -26° 16.2' Common designations: HIP 23430, HD 32436, HR 1628

Link to page

I sure hope this thing isn't planning on passing within a lunar distance anytime soon....I have no idea about any of the information I am looking at....I am just pretty good at finding it.

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Well done in finding that thanks I'm new at this so please don't flame me and I don't want people to panic just do your own research and see if my screenshot is really telling us something. Maybe someone with stellerium could type in same details as I did and see what will happen.

Is that one of the horseshoe asteroids that share our orbit? There is supposed to be one close to earth now that is turning around.

double post, thought I didn't click on it right because it took so long

I searched for your star, in Stellarium. I changed the time to 01/08/14 and its distance from earth was at 240 light years away, am I doing something wrong?

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I don't know but we really need to find more about the orbit of this rock and I hope someone with experience can look into this more. I know that weather stations use simulated models to know what the weather will be like but as the weather has changed so much their models are not reliable. I don't know about simulations as things can change but we will know near Jan 2014. Keep your eyes on the skies. Please report back if you have more information thanks.

Originally posted by MrMaybeNot
I searched for your star, in Stellarium. I changed the time to 01/08/14 and its distance from earth was at 240 light years away, am I doing something wrong?

Was you on Pansstarr when you viewed the earth?

HIP 234 30 is a star with the designation HR 1628. Please learn to use your stellar (Stellarium) program better! And stop trying to be a fear monger...

HR 1628 or HIP 23430

Originally posted by Sk8ergrl

I'm saying that in my simulation we are not alone and I don't know if HIP 234 30 will get caught in our orbit as there haven't been something like this near us before so I cannot comment if this will affect us. Please be aware this was from a simulation and it just caught my attention. I'm not trying to cause a doom thread at all.

Stellarium doesn't have any crystal ball magical powers to suddenly discover things that aren't already in its database.

Only already known, identified, and classified representations of stellar objects will show up.

Thought I might point this out as some of your posts seem to imply you thinking that this 'discovery' is of an unknown.
Stellarium won't pick up or show unknowns.
If you get one of those apps for your smart phone that you can point at the sky to identify stars and planets, it's like that in such that if an airplane flies by, the airplane is not going to suddenly show up on your screen with IFF data displays and such.
Same goes for any unidentified.

If it isn't already known to Stellarium in the Stellarium database, it won't show up.

Originally posted by MrMaybeNot
I searched for your star, in Stellarium. I changed the time to 01/08/14 and its distance from earth was at 240 light years away, am I doing something wrong?

Nope you did it correctly! That is where HIP23430 lives better known as HR 1628 residing in the constellation LEPUS the hare.

Which is ironic for spring! LOL

Originally posted by abeverage
HIP 234 30 is a star with the designation HR 1628. Please learn to use your stellar (Stellarium) program better! And stop trying to be a fear monger...

HR 1628 or HIP 23430

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If you read my post I wasn't trying to scare people so please don't give me that kinda attitude as I haven't disrespected you.