This makes me feel so damn secure, NOT!
"A 100-foot diameter asteroid will pass within 26,500 miles of Earth
on Thursday evening, the closest-ever brush on record by a space
rock, NASA astronomers said."
"The asteroid's close flyby, first spied late Monday, poses no risk,
NASA astronomers stressed."
OK, that's within geosynchronous orbit and they just detected the
damn thing on Monday!
"The asteroid, 2004 FH, was expected to make its closest approach at
5:08 p.m. EST, streaking over the southern Atlantic Ocean. It should
be visible through binoculars to stargazers across the southern
hemisphere, as well as throughout Asia and Europe, said astronomer
Steve Chesley, also of JPL."
Well all you lucky buggers in Brazil (Lucio) better give us a good
report. LOL.
TangoMan
If it is coming that close to earth, I wonder if nasa
could point any of its earth monitoring satellites at
it. I for one would drool at the opportunity to get a
picture of an asteroid using a landsat bird or
anything else with a hyperspectral imager.
a GOES satellite's imager and sounder. GOES geosynch
orbit should be able to see this asteroid go between
it and the earth.
Also, it would be nice to bombard it with earth based
radar to probe the innards of the object. Ahh, to
actually have money to take advantage of such
occurances...
Ryan Z
> This makes me feel so damn secure, NOT!
>
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0304/18asteroid.html
Em Qui 18 Mar 2004 09:18, victoriatangoman escreveu:
> Well all you lucky buggers in Brazil (Lucio) better give us a good
> report. LOL.
this time of the year it rains a lot. Right now the sky is getting heavy with
clouds, and I can't see any patch of blue (see
http://beta.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/BRXX0033?from=search_city)...
:-(
> If it is coming that close to earth, I wonder if nasa
> could point any of its earth monitoring satellites at
> it. I for one would drool at the opportunity to get a
> picture of an asteroid using a landsat bird or
> anything else with a hyperspectral imager.
>
> Heck, I'd even be happy getting a nice snap at it with
> a GOES satellite's imager and sounder. GOES geosynch
> orbit should be able to see this asteroid go between
> it and the earth.
>
> Also, it would be nice to bombard it with earth based
> radar to probe the innards of the object. Ahh, to
> actually have money to take advantage of such
> occurances...
>
> Ryan Z
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_results_040319.html
TangoMan
Just to clarify, it's a picture of a Comet (Wild-2), not an NEO.