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A small asteroid (~5 m) will hit Sudan on 2008 Oct 07 0246 UTC
- aston 18y agoWhat will the impact be?
- d0mine 18y agoNothing serious. "Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan" http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html
- gduffy 18y agohttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html "The absolute magnitude indicates that the object will not survive passage through the atmosphere."
- henning 18y agoWE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, WAKE UP SHEEPLE
- petercooper 18y agoIt's as much as an "impact" with Earth as dropping a sweetner in your coffee is an "impact."
- d0mine 18y agoA little animation http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php?topic=45265.0 http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php?topic=45265.0 Minor Planet Electronic Circular http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html
- run4yourlives 18y agoAnyone know if this is something of significance, or is this just going to put a little hole in the ground? Aside: Poor (people of) Sudan. Like that country needs more issues.
- d0mine 18y ago"It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere." http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html
- run4yourlives 18y agoIn other words, barely news.
- utx00 18y agoit's the first time something like this has been predicted though. that's something.
- run4yourlives 18y agoFair point, I missed that.
- lutorm 18y agoNot to mention the 1kt energy is not too shabby, even if it's far up.
- timtrueman 18y ago"Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time." That's pretty significant/awesome.
- maxklein 18y agoOh yes, the poor population of Sudan, huddled together on 5 meters of ground, and that is the exact 5 meters that gets hit by an asteroid. What are the odds?
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- HendrikR 18y agoSee this press release: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200819.html http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200819.html
- comatose_kid 18y agoExcellent. A post that teaches me something about hacking and about how to become a better entrepreneur at the same time.
- ashleyw 18y agoFor a moment I thought "~5 m" meant that it was going to be around 1/3 of the "15 m" asteroid that hit earth and caused dinosaurs to go extinct.
- tlrobinson 18y agoExplain, for us astronomically-challenged, please?
- jbyers 18y agoThis little asteroid will be 5 m(eters) in diameter, quite a lot less than 15 m(iles) in diameter. :) Note that if we're talking about the asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater, most references seem to have the size a bit smaller, ~6 miles in diameter. Still, that's a big rock.
- eru 18y agoRemember the story about the NASA-engineers who mixed up imperial and metric units?
- marvin 18y ago...and fueled the Space Shuttle up with 900000 grams of liquid oxygen?
- rkowalick 18y agoThe US doesn't use imperial units.
- eru 18y agoSorry. I meant to reference the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter (http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html#mco http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html#mco).
- petercooper 18y agoPoor headline. It might hit Sudanese airspace, but not "Sudan" as in the land forming that country. It might not even high Sudanese airspace, as it'll burn up in the "upper atmosphere."
- d0mine 18y agoAgreed. "hit Sudan" is not as precise as "hit Earth this morning, Oct. 7th, and exploded in the atmosphere over northern Sudan." http://www.spaceweather.com/ http://www.spaceweather.com/