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Here's a visualization of its orbit, Earth in green, object in teal: http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/yr/gsim2023.html?sv,1,ZTm0038,2460169.50,11
by mcint 3y ago
Here's a visualization of its orbit, Earth in green, object in teal:
http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/yr/gsim2023.html?sv,1,ZTm0038,2460169.50,114739276938.995850,-91720755537.183609,-807288875.097566,18794.391969,22612.479413,1.284824,0,0,00FF00,90,65,,16000,0,12,1,0,19.575147,0.150000 http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/yr/gsim2023....
It passed about 9 hours ago.
- mcint 3y agoIt was first seen on August 12, midday UT1. About a dozen observations. ZTm0038\* C2023 08 12.49542 06 32 33.23 +15 57 35.5 18.86rUNEOCPI41 Is the first entry, and asterisk-marked, on https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/object/ZTm0038 https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/object/ZTm0038 at the bottom, in the Observations section. Unusual (new to me) format. Appears to me, first guess to read: [object] [yr] [m] [day.time-decimal] [position] [elevation-angle] [observatory] Likely oriented relative to the plane of the ecliptic, and absolute direction relative to Earth at time of observation. I don't know what I'm talking about. Just giving best-guess interpretations.
- mcint 3y agoVSauce with packages summary for passive consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw And jacquesm's replies to my other comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37139144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37139144
- hoten 3y agoFYI VSauce is a different content creator than Veratasium (unaffiliated).
- mcint 3y agoOops, thoughtless basic error in posting something quickly. Good note.
- awb 3y ago> Since 1988 over 1,200 asteroids bigger than a meter have collided with the Earth. And of those we detected only 5 before they hit, never with more than a day of warning. Yikes