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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 28, 2017, 01:57:22 PM

Title: Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2017, 01:57:22 PM
Disconcerting: Discovered 3 days *after* it passed 1/3 the moon's distance from Earth.

http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected
Title: Re: Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Post by: Brad on July 28, 2017, 09:47:03 PM
It was meeting with Russians?
Title: Re: Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Post by: littleman on July 29, 2017, 06:54:18 AM
>between 82 and 256 feet (between 25 and 78 meters)
>23,179 miles per hour (37,303 km/h)

If that hit in near a populated area it would have been devastating.  

Edit:
Looks like someone on reddit did the math:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/6q0ekf/close_shave_from_an_undetected_asteroid/dktxhjq/
Title: Re: Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Post by: rcjordan on July 29, 2017, 12:21:57 PM
QuoteYou escape the air blast by being shock melted.

I love reddit.
Title: Re: Close shave from an undetected asteroid
Post by: simplytheresa on July 30, 2017, 07:16:53 PM
If you are shock melted, you escape the air blast, AND you don't have to worry about the ear drum rupture. Seems like a good option.  :D
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