We Dodged a (Rather Large) Bullet Today

grumpybill freely admits to licking rocks Member since June 2017 Posts: 940	We Dodged a (Rather Large) Bullet Today Apr 15, 2018 20:01:27 GMT -5 1dave and spiceman like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grumpybill on Apr 15, 2018 20:01:27 GMT -5 wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/15/nasa-previously-unknown-asteroid-nearly-misses-earth-today/
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We Dodged a (Rather Large) Bullet Today Apr 15, 2018 21:04:57 GMT -5

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Apr 15, 2018 20:01:27 GMT -5 grumpybill said:

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We dodged a bullet today. It came within one half of the distance to the moon.

I got this notice in email from NASA about a surprise asteroid that gave us only one day of warning passing halfway between the Earth and the moon. It was the largest known asteroid to ever pass that close to Earth in observational history.

SURPRISE ASTEROID FLYBY: With little warning, on Sunday, April 15th, a “Tunguska-class” asteroid about the size of a football field flew through the Earth-Moon system. 2018 GE3 was discovered just the day before as it plunged inward from the asteroid belt. A quick-thinking amateur astronomer in Europe was able to record a video of the asteroid as it flew by.

With little warning, a relatively large asteroid flew through the Earth-Moon system on April 15th only 192,200 km (0.5 Lunar Distance) from our planet. 2018 GE3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey approaching Earth on April 14th. Hours later, amateur astronomer Michael Jäger of Weißenkirchen Austria video-recorded the space rock rushing through the southern constellation Serpens:

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MrP fully equipped rock polisher Member since November 2006 Posts: 1,930	We Dodged a (Rather Large) Bullet Today Apr 16, 2018 3:52:14 GMT -5 1dave, toiv0, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MrP on Apr 16, 2018 3:52:14 GMT -5 I will bet this is caused by SUV driving Aliens......................MrP
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We Dodged a (Rather Large) Bullet Today

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