Near miss tomorrow!

[entwisi]

You may or may not want to know but a chunk of rock nearly a mile across will pass rather close ( in space terms!) to earth tomorrow, it will be just over 16 times further away than the moon ( or 0.045x the distance from us to the sun).

If you would like to say hello its called 2010 JL33.


JPL Small-Body Database Browser

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by entwisi

You may or may not want to know but a chunk of rock nearly a mile across will pass rather close ( in space terms!) to earth tomorrow, it will be just over 16 times further away than the moon ( or 0.045x the distance from us to the sun).

If you would like to say hello its called 2010 JL33.


JPL Small-Body Database Browser

Now you've gone and done it entwisi, I won't bloody sleep tonight for worrying

[entwisi]

You'd best not click that link then as you will find that these are not rare events!

there was on in October taht came as close as teh moon but that was only 70m across...

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by entwisi

You'd best not click that link then as you will find that these are not rare events!

there was on in October taht came as close as teh moon but that was only 70m across...

No entwisi won't be clicking on the link, I'll leave that sort of thing to MargaretR

[Morecambe Ex Pat]

Could something like that influence the earth's tides?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jaysay

No entwisi won't be clicking on the link, I'll leave that sort of thing to MargaretR

I watch the xray flux emissions.
Current Solar Data: NOAA data
Class M & X Solar flares are the most likely dangerous events at the moment.
Geomagnetic storm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
..and could wipe out electrical grids that could take months to repair.
Could our civilisation function without electricity? - likely not.

[entwisi]

technically yes( as in physics everything affectes everything else to some degree), but such an order of magnitude less than the moon which is 2159 miles across and obviously closer that it would be pretty much unmeasurable. no need to worry about high tides or tsunami's!

[accyman]

due to cutbacks N.A.S.A cant afford Bruce Willis to sort out this space rock and have opted for plan B

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Now you've gone and done it entwisi, I won't bloody sleep tonight for worrying

There's nowt we can do about them things any way.
Just make sure you've got your brussel sprouts for christmas.


Retlaw.

[JCB]

Ossy covers a large area , so there's plenty room for it there .

[gynn]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Now you've gone and done it entwisi, I won't bloody sleep tonight for worrying

I'm surprised you haven't blamed the near miss on 13 years of Labour mismanagement of the UK space programme.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by gynn

I'm surprised you haven't blamed the near miss on 13 years of Labour mismanagement of the UK space programme.

What space program, or is that another name for the gap between Gordon Browns ears

[cashman]

Well yer were right ian................It Missed.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by cashman

Well yer were right ian................It Missed.

So ... if it missed, then it must have been a "near hit"

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Eric

So ... if it missed, then it must have been a "near hit"

Same with me Eric, I always used to get treble one and treble 5 when playing darts near but no cigar