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David Jenkins - 13/1/10 at 12:53 PM

As it's past 12:47, we can assume that it missed us... or did anyone hear a very loud bang?

Asteroid

fesycresy - 13/1/10 at 01:05 PM

They must have spent ages on that drawing

paul the 6th - 13/1/10 at 01:07 PM

pffft.... they should prolly upgrade to windows 3.11

BenB - 13/1/10 at 01:13 PM

Reminds me of playing Elite on the old Acorn Electron

David Jenkins - 13/1/10 at 01:52 PM

There's a table on the associated website that lists all of the asteroids expected in the next year or so.

Most show how close they'll pass in Lunar Units (LUs), i.e. the distance from Earth to the Moon. Most are in the 10s, 20s or 30s - but this one was 0.3LU!

TimC - 13/1/10 at 01:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Reminds me of playing Elite on the old Acorn Electron


Amazing - had Elite II on my first PC - the Epson 8086 'IBM Compatible'!

Mr Whippy - 13/1/10 at 01:59 PM

this asteroid near miss is always my favorite, still kept going back into space but you get a real feel for the speed its going.

3m across and 35 miles up going like a bat out of hell

tube linky

steve m - 13/1/10 at 02:09 PM

WAIT

It hassnt missed yet, but due to the wrong type of snow, it is sum what delayed

British Rail, dont know when
Eurostar = ?????? what asteroid
Gatwick airport say they will open at 1730 GMT

iank - 13/1/10 at 02:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
this asteroid near miss is always my favorite, still kept going back into space but you get a real feel for the speed its going.

3m across and 35 miles up going like a bat out of hell

tube linky


14.9 kilometres per second, around 33330 mph fair amount if kinetic energy in that.

sucksqueezebangblow - 13/1/10 at 02:35 PM

Well, they say a miss is as good as 76,000 miles.