Asteroid near-miss next month?

[robtherake]

As reported here http://www.gizmag.com/asteroid-da14-close-call-2013/25745/ a 130,000 ton asteroid will miss the Earth by just 20,000 miles on Feb 15th of this year. That's less than three Earth diameters so it's a pretty close call.

 

What do the AN resident astronomers know about it?

[big_cod]

Bloody hell kept that one quite lets hope the wind doesnt blow it off course.

 

paul.

[Newt]

Solar wind would have trouble blowing a grain of sand off course. Still, it is a nearish miss and I'm not sure we now have assets available to move such a rock away from an earth strike.

[Andrew]

Bloody hell, send for Bruce Willis and co.

[big_cod]

Solar wind would have trouble blowing a grain of sand off course. Still, it is a nearish miss and I'm not sure we now have assets available to move such a rock away from an earth strike.

I was only joking newt

 

paul.

[chesters1]

Bloody conservatives cant even get rocks to hit the earth ehh Paul

[garylee]

what worries me is if an astroid hits and devastates Norfolk how would we know?

[IanBass]

what worries me is if an astroid hits and devastates Norfolk how would we know?

Could do several million pounds of improvements

[big_cod]

Bloody conservatives cant even get rocks to hit the earth ehh Paul

 

Slacking chesters mind you if it gets the deferceit down if cambo says it will miss us it will probably hit us he getting everything else wrong.

Edited January 17, 2013 by big_cod

[captain cojones]

That was in the papers here weeks ago. They have also analysed future orbits and confirmed that it will noy impact on the next return either.