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dreadgeek · 02-08-2013, 10:59 AM

So I want to get on top of this issue:

Next week a 150 foot asteroid will pass very close to the Earth (17,000 miles being very close). However, no matter what else you might here NASA is saying there is *no* chance that this rock will hit the planet. None. Even though it will be within the area in which most satellites orbit there is very little chance it will even hit a satellite. How can we be so certain? Physics. Since we know how the Earth-Moon system affects the orbits of objects (since we've been putting objects in orbit for almost 60 years now) and we know the trajectory and speed of the asteroid, we know where it's going and how it will be effected by its close encounter with Earth. What will happen is that the rock is going to 'slingshot' around the Earth and head toward Sol where it will go into a long orbit. Article link below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2644960.html

Cheers
Aj

02-08-2013, 10:59 AM	#532
dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,844 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Asteroid to make very close pass to Earth So I want to get on top of this issue: Next week a 150 foot asteroid will pass very close to the Earth (17,000 miles being very close). However, no matter what else you might here NASA is saying there is no chance that this rock will hit the planet. None. Even though it will be within the area in which most satellites orbit there is very little chance it will even hit a satellite. How can we be so certain? Physics. Since we know how the Earth-Moon system affects the orbits of objects (since we've been putting objects in orbit for almost 60 years now) and we know the trajectory and speed of the asteroid, we know where it's going and how it will be effected by its close encounter with Earth. What will happen is that the rock is going to 'slingshot' around the Earth and head toward Sol where it will go into a long orbit. Article link below: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2644960.html Cheers Aj __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community. "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)