NationStates Jolt Archive

NEO DO111 came by tonight for a visit. 290,000 miles (just outside of the lunar distance). Estimated to be 92 meters wide.

We ran some missions on it and got some images. It was moving pretty fast as you an see. This is a three image composite.

http://www.slooh.com/files/public/NEODO111.png [/QUOTE]

Well it's 92 meters or about 302 feet. The Barringer Crater (1 mile wide, and 570 feet deep) in Arizona is believed to have been caused by an asteroid that was 150 feet and the explosion is believed to have been the equivalent of 2.5 Megatons.

DO111 was discovered.....







wait for it....









24 DAYS ago.

The sky is falling!

If we are going to die from a giant space meteor impacting the planet so be it; saves me the trouble of writing a will and worrying about my family; hell maybe even saves me from shooting myself.

Kind of close in an astrological sense.

http://www.slooh.com/blog/mission-alert-neo-2009-do111-2009march19/


NEO 2009 DO111 is no Apophis, but it is large enough and passing close enough (just 1.2 LD or 290,000 miles!) to make that point that we do live in a busy region of the solar system. Every day, space rocks fly past our planet, some closer than others, as we all make our way around the Sun. While actual impacts are very rare, they do occur; and in today’s populous world, even the best odds are little comfort when no one can determine exactly when our luck will finally run out.

Kind of close in an astrological sense.

http://www.slooh.com/blog/mission-alert-neo-2009-do111-2009march19/


NEO 2009 DO111 is no Apophis, but it is large enough and passing close enough (just 1.2 LD or 290,000 miles!) to make that point that we do live in a busy region of the solar system. Every day, space rocks fly past our planet, some closer than others, as we all make our way around the Sun. While actual impacts are very rare, they do occur; and in today’s populous world, even the best odds are little comfort when no one can determine exactly when our luck will finally run out.

we need more nuclear weapons to destroy space rocks then!!!

Those do way more damage than nuclear weapons. We need some of our own space rocks to fling at those rogue space rocks. *nod*

we need more nuclear weapons to destroy space rocks then!!!

Or a hero like Bruce Willis:p

I seriously think we'll destroy ourselves before a space rock does though.