NOV 3 Live Stream: NASA Asteroid Conference & YU55: Looks Much Larger than 400ft, Size of Mercury??

thewatchers.adorraeli.com...

a live broadcast and chat from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will allow viewers to ask questions of scientists with NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office about asteroid YU55, and find out how NASA discovers, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets.

participants include:
– Don Yeomans, manager, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office at JPL
– Marina Brozovic, scientist, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office at JPL

tracking of the aircraft carrier-sized asteroid will begin at 9:30 a.m. local time (PDT) on Nov. 4, using the massive 70-meter (230-foot) Deep Space Network antenna, and last for about two hours

asteroid will continue to be tracked four hours each day from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10.



^ says "looks much larger than 400 meters! The size of it looks more comparable to Mercury from this view"

Bravo. I was wondering when you'd post your next Earth-Go-Boom-Boom thread. Not much time between now and the big date next week; better cram as many in as you can.

And an extra huzzah for slipping in the sunspot Youtube clip without any refernce in your title and post.

reply to post by ignant


What had the first video to do with the topic?

And yes, near earth object are being tracked almost continues.
Ask your questions yourself and you could get some answers.
If not, just wait a couple of days and see for yourself.

How can you tell the size and say how big it is?
I can post you a photo of a microbe and you would say it's huge,... must be bigger than the sun.

reply to post by ignant


thats because it should be200 M
second line.

wiki.answers.com...
665ft

reply to post by AllUrChips


This is what the article says:

2005 YU55–will likely draw significant public interest because of the asteroid’s large size of about 396 meters (1,300 feet) in diameter

reply to post by intergalactic fire


ssd.jpl.nasa.gov...
Exactly 200 m not 400 ft or m.

spaceweather.com...

reply to post by intergalactic fire


And thread closed lmfao

Damn it,forgot i was no moderator

Originally posted by ColAngus
Bravo. I was wondering when you'd post your next Earth-Go-Boom-Boom thread. Not much time between now and the big date next week; better cram as many in as you can.

And an extra huzzah for slipping in the sunspot Youtube clip without any refernce in your title and post.

yup about one topic a week, even a week before Nov 9 is a hardcore fear-monger frenzy!



ps thx for renaming my thread to something more horribly suitable.

reply to post by AllUrChips


Ok
I just read his link and posted what was said there.
It doesn't make that much difference.
Not the size of Mercury

Originally posted by AllUrChips
reply to post by intergalactic fire

 

ssd.jpl.nasa.gov...
Exactly 200 m not 400 ft or m.

edit on 2-11-2011 by AllUrChips because: (no reason given)

spaceweather.com...

edit on 2-11-2011 by AllUrChips because: (no reason given)

Your first link to the JPL page says:

diameter diameter 0.4 km n/a 2010 radar result echo.jpl.nasa.gov...

0.4km = 400m, not 200m.

Yes, Space Weather says it's 200m, but I'm willing to bet that NASA is more accurate than spaceweather.com

"looks much larger than 400 meters! The size of it looks more comparable to Mercury from this view"

^ i was just quoting one the informative YT vids' verbatim.

Originally posted by AllUrChips

wiki.answers.com...
665ft

so its 665 ft big? thats huge!

Originally posted by ignant


"looks much larger than 400 meters! The size of it looks more comparable to Mercury from this view"

^ i was just quoting one the informative YT vids' verbatim.

Originally posted by AllUrChips

wiki.answers.com...
665ft

so its 665 ft big? thats huge!

Youtube, best source there is. That's how I know Elenin was really a tetrahedral mothership that was taken out by our naval space forces. Phew. Good thing there. On a side note what do you get out of posting all this garbage? You either believe this crap, and even I can't fathom that, or you don't and just like to be an agitator, At least it's a good way to quickly see whether I should bother to research anymore, as soon as you chime in for support I know it's crap.

reply to post by ignant


Utterly ridiculous, and utter fail:

Looks Much Larger than 400ft, Size of Mercury??

Complete joke thread. No object that is near enough to be encountering the Earth in just over a week's time could be the "Size of Mercury" and just now be *revealed* as such.

The asteroid 2005 YU55 was imaged by radar some weeks ago, and its actual size better estimated, based on that more accurate determination.

What an awful attempt....OP even tossed out "size of an aircraft carrier".....which, actually, is about right. In NO case is an aircraft carrier the size of Mercury, though.

once again........