April fools day asteroid?, page

Looks like a fly by near kiss,just found a week ago with a condition code 7.Don't know much myself but your welcome to jump all over it.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov...

reply to post by SarnholeOntarable

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It's close approach on April 1, according to the close approach data at the bottom of that page, is at a distance of 0.00153 AU, which is 0.6 LD (0.6 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon).
Condition Code 7 means it's orbital uncertainty is moderately high (probably because it was just recently found). The scale is 0-9, with 0 being good and 9 being highly uncertain (source).

reply to post by CLPrime

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Nice leap,thanks for the explanation and the courtesy not to dumbify me

reply to post by Illustronic

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There was no doom mentioned at all,It was an observation on the space exploration forum with a twist

reply to post by SarnholeOntarable

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I guess it is better than waiting till the 1st of April before sharing this news. People might not believe you.

Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
reply to post by Illustronic

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There was no doom mentioned at all,It was an observation on the space exploration forum with a twist

Twist is doom, are you coloring me stupid?

Get real.

It is the size of a house!!!

Originally posted by Illustronic

Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
reply to post by Illustronic

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There was no doom mentioned at all,It was an observation on the space exploration forum with a twist

Twist is doom, are you coloring me stupid?

Get real.

It is the size of a house!!!

If the shoe fits huh? A twist is not doom, it's a twist which is generally some form of irony (April Fool's Day event/potential event/non-event/situation that has a non-zero probability of being real) or something unexpected (like a cat 7 asteroid passing fairly close to the planet on April Fool's Day). The OP mentioned no doom or gloom, just a casual observation of an object approaching our "space." And it's only the size of a house, lol, if it was going to hit, it would probably break up on the way down, so no big deal right? Unless it's made of iron?

It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye (don't look up), or gets hit in the head by an asteroid fragment traveling at mach 10 ;-)

Cheers - Dave

reply to post by Illustronic

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Where in the orbit diagram data do you read its size?

Sorry, bit noobish here

reply to post by kloejen

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NASA's NEO list gives its size as 38-85 m (125-279 ft). That's more of a small condominium than a house.

reply to post by CLPrime

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Thanks for your reply. But is the NEO list on the orbit-diagram? Or is there a link i have somehow missed in the orbit-diagram, that takes me directly to this info for the particular asteroid ?

If i click "Physical parameters", all i get is a Java error.

reply to post by kloejen

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NEO Earth Close Approaches

reply to post by Earthscum

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Too fast and way too small. Good luck getting a look at a small condominium as it flies by at 230,000 km (143,000 mi).

reply to post by AgentX09

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If it did impact, it would only do significant damage to an area the size of a large town. Or part of a city. Not both...it would have to choose one or the other.

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