!!!!NEO GETS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT 4/9/2011!!!!NO JOKE!!!!!

Get back at me how how big this thing is, cause I can't read the measurements. I know that's kinda pathetic, but I just found it, u guys bump on it.

With any luck the fucker will hit us.

between 15 and 34 meters in diameter, Would make a nice fireball and unless its an iron meteorite would disintegrate in the upper atmosphere.

Me in such an event. lol,

There is not that much luck left in this universe, im affraid we just have to have it slow and painful.

Really checks the intestinal fortitude though. :-)

So what kind of doom are we talking if it's not made of Iron and it hits us? Could you calculate that for me as well?

It would be like - and look much like - a small nuclear explosion if it hits land with most of its size intact. The relative speed difference between it and Earth is about 10 miles per second, or around 36,000 mph or so. It would scream through the densest 20 miles of our atmosphere in 2 seconds. If it's 34 meters, that's the size of a medium-sized office building. That would probably destroy at least a small city if not a medium one. If it hits water, depending on how much mass survives the descent, it could cause a good-sized but localized tidal wave.

It could do a Tunguska on us too, and explode in the air. If it did that then it might simply blow down a city and set hundreds or thousands of acres on fire, something like that.

Hopefully it will miss us.

who is going to get to see this thing?

No idea. I'm hoping people on the other side of the planet from me get a good view. Heh.

Just wait until November 9 2011 when Asteroid 2005 YU55 will be within .0020AU of earth.. That fucker is bigger than a football field..

wellh, the thing about meteors is that their course is not set - it varies depending on the expulsion of melting ice...which act as thrusters moving hither and tither...or something like that

You're thinking of comets. But some scientists dispute the idea that many comets are iceballs. Nobody knows what this thing is made of, but I think this just came around the Sun so I doubt it has any unmelted volatiles left, whatever it is.

Main thing is, if you see it, and it doesn't appear to be moving, just growing larger...RUN!

OH, WILL DO SIR! WILL DO!!! LOL!

was watching its orbit for the last 100 years it got close in 1996 but this is much closer

Damn, you are an old fucker.. 100 years eh?

641395 miles away is close?

Well damn, then the moon at .0024 AU or 239,000 miles away should really scare you!

Why is that so close????

its over 557,000 miles away, moon is 238,000... moving 25.6 miles per second.. this will be on april 9th according to jpl..

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

Let's hope it doesn't hit. I'd rather not be a zombie. lol.

git do you not think?

Specifically Washington DC.

Like in Siberia?

2.7LD on space weather

[link to www.spaceweather.com]