what happened to my reply with a link to the JPL data?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84872699 the data showed it will miss us by over 100k miles
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84872699 .
... YOU have the wrong item ... did you do it on purpose? ...
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Quoting: wisconsin human No, he's not wrong.
The minimum earth distance you can achieve with the simulation is on 2023-03-25 20:00 UTC:
1.22e-3 au (183000 km)(In fact, his video snapped it a little
farther, not closer.)
'au' =
astronomical units'km' =
kilometerse-3 is scientific notation for shifting the decimal 3 places to the left.
So you have 0.00122 au
1 au = 149597870.70 km
1 km = 0.62137119 miles
Multiply those together, you get
113k miles...
Also the guy in the video doesn't seem to understand what the "condition code" means. He equated condition code 9 with "direct hit", but it's the opposite.
Hover your mouse over the label. It says "9" means
maximal uncertainty.
It's now at 7, meaning the data is a little more certain.
That said, I can't find an error value for the minimum distance values,
so for all we know it
COULD end up a hit.
It does seem weird to me that they delayed the solution so many days after the last observation.
It's up-to-date now (last obs. used == solution date).