Asteroid comes within 9500 miles of Earth last week!! 15 hours warning..

[kokonut]

Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away - with only 15 hours warning | Mail Online

Though not that big but still an asteroid.

 

[deafdude1]

23 feet would never survive to impact, itll burn up. A dangerous size would start at 460 feet.

 

[kokonut]

23 feet would never survive to impact, itll burn up. A dangerous size would start at 460 feet.

It depends on the composition of the rock. An asteroid made up of mostly iron of only 66 feet wide by the time it reached the surface created that famous crater in Arizona which is a 600 foot deep crater.

 

[Royale]

Koko is correct.

 

[rockdrummer]

Source: Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away - with only 15 hours warning | Mail Online

Don't panic! Although the asteroid passed within 9,000 miles of Earth it measured just 23ft across and wouldn't have dented the surface

Astronomers believe the object, called 2009 VA, would have almost completely burned up while entering Earth's atmosphere, causing a brilliant fireball in the sky but no major damage to the surface.

 

[sequoias]

interesting!

 

[deafskeptic]

Get the license plate of that Asteroid!

 

[Jiro]

 

[omegaman]

Yeah, a bit early for 2012

 

[Royale]

Yeah, a bit early for 2012

Then let's go to the movie before it is too late.

 

[Kalista]

Then let's go to the movie before it is too late.

Will you serve us butter popcorn ?

 

[PowerON]

23 feet would never survive to impact, itll burn up. A dangerous size would start at 460 feet.

if it's less than few mile, it would pull toward Earth for a sure.

 

[kokonut]

if it's less than few mile, it would pull toward Earth for a sure.

A few miles? Mt. Ranier is 14,410 feet high and that makes it a "few miles" high. It depends on the angle of the meteor/asteroid/comet heading towards earth, the speed, the gravitional pull between the Earth, Moon, our Sun (and even other nearby planets), and how close it gets to the Earth's gravitational field enough to pull it in. It is way, way more than just a few miles. Mass of objects always attract each other. The bigger the mass, the more it can attract or pull in objects toward it.

 

[sequoias]

if it's less than few mile, it would pull toward Earth for a sure.

outer space is about 60 miles from the surface of Earth. The gravity pulls stuff in at less than 50 miles from Earth, depending on speed of the object... using my thoughts.

 

[VamPyroX]

What if it's a warning of a bigger asteroid that we haven't yet seen? :Ohno:

Here comes 2012!

 

[kokonut]

Theoretically, the effects of gravity goes on forever. Even our Milky Way galaxy as a whole exerts tremendous amount of gravity pull that ripples out even more into space.

 

[Phillips]

Interesting & :Ohno:

 

[PowerON]

What if it's a warning of a bigger asteroid that we haven't yet seen? :Ohno:

Here comes 2012!

I doubt, it won't happen in thousand (make it million instead. heh) years. We won't live to see it happen. enjoy while we can.

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

More worried about the sun blowing up than the asteroid hitting us.

At least if we get wiped out, life will still go on. If the sun blows up, then there's no life-- period.

 

[Eve]

looks like Jiro has been blue-flaming again. Careful not to singe the hairs lol