I've read articles a couple days ago saying the closest point in passing at a little over 201,000 miles away from Earth will be at 6:28pm, but where is it at now in the sky precisely at 3:02 pm Eastern Standard Time, and are they 100 percent sure it's going to fly by and miss us like I've been reading that it will miss us.
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8 Earth Distances!!!! What are you people looking at, the Earth is 8,000 miles in diameter, 200,000 divided by 8,000 is 25.
It is a fairly big rock but almost as far away from us as the moon, it would be like worrying if a bullet shot at you 40 feet to your left from 200 yards away was going to suddenly change course when it was got beside you and hit you.
If you're JFK, you should be worried, otherwise, rest easy.
It is a fairly big rock but almost as far away from us as the moon, it would be like worrying if a bullet shot at you 40 feet to your left from 200 yards away was going to suddenly change course when it was got beside you and hit you.
If you're JFK, you should be worried, otherwise, rest easy.
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you're not going to see it with the naked eye.
here is something i posted earlier on a friend's facebook page. she too was interested in seeing it.
You won't see it with the naked eye. Imagine an aircraft carrier 201,700 miles from earth. That's pretty tiny. Online sources state that you need at least an 80mm objective lens to even be able to find it. Nowhere have I been able to find out what sort of magnification is needed to get a decent enlargement and then can the lenses even focus on the darn thing that far. My radar system has a camera with a 180mm objective lense and can see even airplanes refueling off the tankers out in the gulf of mexico, but with combined air temperature and distance, it's hard to even get good focus on what's out there, so it's not even worth my time to use the radar's cameras to 'attempt' to find this YU55 asteroid 201,700 miles away.
here is something i posted earlier on a friend's facebook page. she too was interested in seeing it.
You won't see it with the naked eye. Imagine an aircraft carrier 201,700 miles from earth. That's pretty tiny. Online sources state that you need at least an 80mm objective lens to even be able to find it. Nowhere have I been able to find out what sort of magnification is needed to get a decent enlargement and then can the lenses even focus on the darn thing that far. My radar system has a camera with a 180mm objective lense and can see even airplanes refueling off the tankers out in the gulf of mexico, but with combined air temperature and distance, it's hard to even get good focus on what's out there, so it's not even worth my time to use the radar's cameras to 'attempt' to find this YU55 asteroid 201,700 miles away.
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This is not even close. It's going to miss us by over 200K miles, which is something on the order of 8 Earth distances away. Interesting only that it is inside the moons orbit. Really not a problem here.