The Sky is Falling

[RedSN]

So this happened yesterday....

Name----------Date------------AU-----------LD----Diameter---------Speed
(2017 AG13)--2017-Jan-09---0.0014-----0.5---16 m - 37 m------15.70

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

LD = lunar distance
0.5 LD means it passed 1/2 way between us and the moon.

A HIGHRISE-sized asteroid slipped quietly past the Earth yesterday, twice as close as the Moon. We didn’t see it coming.
Now designated 2017 AG13, the 10-storey (25-35m) tall space rock was first spotted late on Sunday by the Catalina Sky Survey. It was travelling at 16 kilometres every second.
“This is moving very quickly, very nearby to us,” an expert with astronomy news website Slooh, Eric Feldman, said during a hastily arranged live broadcast of the fly-by yesterday.
He said the asteroid was roughly the same size as that which exploded in the sky above Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. This blast shattered windows and caused minor damage to buildings over a wide area. More than a thousand people were reportedly injured by flying glass and debris.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sc...c2a52c53ff41e2

[Laffs]

Why is it semi disconcerting that "we didn't see it coming" ? Don't we have people watching for these things? You know. so if one gets too close we can send a rough and tumble group of texas oil drillers to it to blast it and then write a hit pop song about it?

[RedSN]

great

now i have that song stuck in my head.

'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again

[92redragtop]

Waiting for Trump's tweet....