Asteroid to make a close aproach

[Viper1]

This was posted in Universe Today this morning.

http://www.universetoday.com/75457/...thin-60000-km-of-earth-on-tuesday/#more-75457

:hail:

 

[Grover]

hardly "run for your lives" but it would be quite nice to see it if it enter the atmosphere, it would make a nice sight

 

[george7378]

It would be fantastic to see it enter the atmosphere right overhead, but still, 0.1X the distance of the Moon is very close. 46,000KM is just 10,000KM above the geostationary satellite belt. That's a near miss.

 

[RisingFury]

Now where did I put my hardhat...

 

[Grover]

Now where did I put my hardhat...

awesome

 

[orb]

NASA JPL: Small Asteroid to Pass Within Earth-Moon System Tuesday.

According to the sources its closest approach was 2 hours ago.

 

[dumbo2007]

A telescope of the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey north of Tucson, Arizona discovered 2010 TD54 on Oct. 9 at (12:55 a.m. PDT) during routine monitoring of the skies.

Yeah it will look great if it enters the sky...but I hope we get sufficient warning for bigger ones.

 

[statickid]

A five-meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 30 million would be expected to pass daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth's atmosphere about every 2 years on average. If an asteroid of the size of 2010 TD54 were to enter Earth's atmosphere, it would be expected to burn up high in the atmosphere and cause no damage to Earth's surface.

hmph, i guess we can just run these things over like bugs

 

[orb]

SPACE.com: Small Asteroid Zips Close By Earth as Astronomers Watch:

The asteroid 2010 TD54 made its closest approach to Earth at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT), when it passed within about 28,000 miles (45,000 km) of the planet. It was flying over Southeast Asia, near Singapore, at the time.
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