Asteroid 2004 MC To pass Or maybe Hit Early tommarow, page 1

Asteroid 2004 MC within VERY close Proxemity to earth

see for yourself

Possible hit?

neo.jpl.nasa.gov...

neo.jpl.nasa.gov...

Here is a video that you can see the range. I think it will come super close, I dont think it will hit. Its only like 30 feet across.

Originally posted by Truth_Hunter_1976
Asteroid 2004 MC within VERY close Proxemity to earth
see for yourself
Possible hit?
neo.jpl.nasa.gov...

(sigh)

No.

Look at the data. It's going to pass at a distance of 0.012 AU
Now the Moon is 0.02mumblesomething AU away from us. The asteroid is a long, long way off.

And it's tiny. At 30 feet across, it might not cross more than one state before it broke into pieces and faded.


[edit on 28-6-2004 by Byrd]

Originally posted by Truth_Hunter_1976
Anyone see the Pictures of the Astroid that expolded Over russia in the early 1900 Flatened 800 acers of forrest i think

You must be talking about this event in 1908 in Russia.
1908 Blast in Russia

Originally posted by Truth_Hunter_1976
Asteroid 2004 MC within VERY close Proxemity to earth

see for yourself

Possible hit?

neo.jpl.nasa.gov...

I wouldn't necessarily worry about this asteroid if I were you especially at the distance is will be when it approaches and passes by us.

Here is a link for all of the Near Earth Objects neo.jpl.nasa.gov... it was posted earlier on a different thread.

Notice the (H) factor = H (Vm) Absolute V-magnitude (in general, smaller H implies larger asteroid diameter).

The astroid 2004 MC has an H factor of 23.13 which if you look at the link here neo.jpl.nasa.gov... it is somewhere around 65m-150m (meters).

At the estimated distance from Earth (0.0097 AU) even at this size it will not even come close to the Moon (unless NASA is WAY WAY off with their distance data). The distance between the Earth and the moon is 0.00257 AU.

Even if the moon is moving further away from earth it's not going to move that far before tomorrow.. (lets hope)

I'm more worried about some of the LARGER asteroids that may come closer to the Moon and possibly pass between the Earth and Moon.

And if it (2004 MC) does hit the Earth I'll be discarding all of these NASA websites and probably be kissing my own bootie goodbye. *sigh*



AngelIC




Edit: to fix the Links - they don't work in parenthesis.. hehe

[edit on 28-6-2004 by angelIC]

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