*Asteroid a MILE wide to hurtle "past" Earth in 48 HOURS ...............

[LongTermGuy]

`Asteroid 1999 FN53 will skim past Earth on May 14`2015`

`The gigantic missile thought to measure almost a mile across will `brush closer` than previous monsters which have sparked a global panic.
`Worried astronomers warned 1999 FN53, which is an eighth of the size of Mount Everest, will skim the Earth in TWO DAYS.`
A collision would be nothing short of catastrophic triggering mass destruction, earthquakes and global extinction.
`The monster is more than TEN TIMES bigger than other meteorites currently visible on NASA’s Near Earth Object <nobr style="-webkit-transform: none !important; transform: none !important;">radar (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/576300/Asteroid-1999-FN53-Earth-May-14-mass-extinction-NASA#)</nobr>.`...Though several million miles away astronomers fear a slight deviation from its orbit will put it on a headlong collision course with the planet.
`Professor Napier said: “It is a bit like shooting through a key hole. `

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/Asteroid-1999-FN53-576300.jpg



`The gigantic lump of rock is travelling faster than 30,000 mph and will brush terrifyingly close to Earth on Thursday.` (6 million miles)

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature...xtinction-NASA (http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/576300/Asteroid-1999-FN53-Earth-May-14-mass-extinction-NASA)




***Wont hit us at "present course"....Makes some wonder...would the gov. actually tell the people of a world ending event...if so...then suppose the asteroid missed....?

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[SassyLady]

First of many to come over next couple of months:


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Near Earth Asteroids

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Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs (http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/groups.html)) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones (http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/Dangerous.html) all the time.
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On May 17, 2015 there were 1580 potentially hazardous asteroids.

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Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:
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Date(UT)


Miss Distance


Size



2015 HB177 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015%20HB177&orb=1)

May 14


12.4 LD


51 m



2015 JF1 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015%20JF1&orb=1)

May 15


0.8 LD


10 m



2006 HX30 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2006%20HX30&orb=1)

May 16


10.9 LD


26 m



5381 Sekhmet (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5381%20Sekhmet&orb=1)

May 17


62.8 LD


2.1 km



2015 JF (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015%20JF&orb=1)

May 18


9 LD


24 m



2015 HT9 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015%20HT9&orb=1)

May 25


12.2 LD


24 m



2005 XL80 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20XL80&orb=1)

Jun 4


38.1 LD


1.0 km



2012 XB112 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012%20XB112&orb=1)

Jun 11


10.1 LD


2 m



2005 VN5 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20VN5&orb=1)

Jul 7


12.6 LD


18 m



2015 HM10 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015%20HM10&orb=1)

Jul 7


1.1 LD


68 m



1994 AW1 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1994%20AW1&orb=1)

Jul 15


25.3 LD


1.4 km



2011 UW158 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20UW158&orb=1)

Jul 19


6.4 LD


565 m



2013 BQ18 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2013%20BQ18&orb=1)

Jul 20


7.9 LD


38 m



1999 JD6 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1999%20JD6&orb=1)

Jul 25


18.8 LD


1.6 km



2005 NZ6 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005%20NZ6&orb=1)

Aug 6


76.5 LD


1.4 km


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Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

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