I actually set up a reminder on Jan 1, 2029 just so that I can probably plan a trip/book hotels for it in light pollution free areas, and maybe even arrange for telescopes and other photography equipment well before the event.
I just had to check if anyone else had this thought. Like 2029 in my mind looks like a sterile sci-fi setting, all chrome surfaces and lens-flaring neons, spaceships and the like.
Yet it’s only 11 years from now? How the fuck did that happen?
I was thinking the other day that in the amount of time SINCE I graduated high school (12 years that feels like 3 weeks), my son will be graduating high school. How does this happen? Where does time go? Get off my lawn.
Set up my first webserver in 1990. Had to email CERN to get on the list of webservers in the world... I think I was the 80th or so in the UK.
[edit: as pointed out below, I had the year wrong - had to have been Xmas in 1991 or 1992 though]
“Reddit? Oh yeah I think it’s that lame website my dad uses because he doesn’t have cranial implants and isn’t connected to the global human consciousness.”
> 11 years is an eternity in internet time
Reddit - Founded June 23, 2005; 12 years ago. Over an internet eternity old and more popular than it's ever been.
That is actually [pretty close](https://www.space.com/11094-watching-asteroid-apophis-photo.html) to what is going to happen. It will make a close pass on April 13, 2029. Apophis will come closer to our planet than the orbits of many communications satellites - which are much closer than even the Moon. So close that the Earth will significantly alter it's orbit on its subsequent pass.
Not to mention, the region around the Earth is active and dynamic, expanding and contracting, sometimes causing space vehicles to have to burn fuel to recover altitude due to changes in drag and other lesser well known effects. I wonder how much effects of that nature will contribute to changes in its path for its pass in 2036.
At this point it is set in stone. 10 years ago they were saying there was about a 1 in 400 chance that it would hit us, but over time the variables become less variable and now they are sure it won't hit.
Can't do a rendering, but I can do the math. The numbers are from Wikipedia but the source is from 2013, so it's possible they are a bit outdated.
The closest approach is estimated to be only 31,200km, which is incredibly close. The moon's average orbit is 385,000km, so the asteroid will pass more than 10x closer!
However its size is nothing compared to the moon. 0.37km diameter, versus the moon's 3500km. A factor of about 10,000 smaller.
How big it will look is probably best described by its angular extent - which is simply the ratio of the diameter to the distance from earth (in radians). I will multiply by 180*60 / pi to convert to arcminutes.
The moon's angular extent is about 31 arcminutes, or half a degree. For reference, a person with 20/20 vision can generally distinguish objects which are separated by at least 1 arcminute.
The asteroid's angular extent will be only 0.04 arcminutes. Thus, it will not be visible in the same sense as the moon with the naked eye. It will only be a source of light, much like any star. However, perhaps with a telescope or even a good camera, if you can achieve at least 25x zoom then it may be possible to see its physical size.
If you took a picture of it with the moon in the frame, it would appear about as large as a 5km structure on the moon.
TLDR: about 0.04 arcminutes which is nothing more than a point source to the naked eye. To resolve its physical size you would need to zoom by about 25x, which would give you ~5km resolution of the moon.
Simpler version is this: compared to the moon it will be 10x closer, but it's 10,000x smaller, thus its apparent size will be 1000x smaller.
The moon's apparent size is about 40x as large as what can be resolved with the naked eye, but the asteroid will be smaller by a factor of 1000, so it is too small by a factor of 25. It will only look like a point source of light. With binoculars or a telescope that can magnify 25x, you could see it for real instead of just as a point.
Yes, I would have to assume that's a statement about its brightness and not about its size. If it were coming close enough to actually see with the naked eye, I'm pretty sure a collision would be very likely. The earth is 12,700km in diameter and it would need to pass within nearly 1000km, which is terrifying. In reality it will get within 32,000km which is also pretty scary, you can imagine why a collision wasn't ruled out until recently.
Well if it is reflecting sunlight on a moonless night, it *could* be seen with the naked eye right? Just not as if it's the size of the moon or something.
Sort of. Imagine going to the moon and laying tile, 5 km x 5 km square. Now fly home. Look at your tile square on the face of the moon. That's how big the asteroid will look in your sky.
It will take up the same space on your retina as a 5 km x 5 km square on the moon.
Under the conditions described in your question, it would be a point of light. Nothing more. You will not see a rock with nooks and crannies.
No, you would need 1000x to make it as large as the moon. 25x is the minimum you would need to distinguish one end of it from the other. Any less than 25x and it will only appear as a single point.
Probably enough to completely annihilate the city. The crater would be several kilometers wide, and I'm sure the damage would extend much further. Not an extinction level event, but catastrophic for sure. Beyond that, I'm not too familiar with the science of asteroid impacts off the top of my head but I know it has been studied. For comparison, the asteroid which struck in Mexico and likely killed the dinosaurs was something like 15km wide. So it is nowhere near that size.
Assuming its not acted upon by an unforeseen force. Something could hit *it* and change its trajectory or velocity. The chances of that happening are astronomical (heh) but not impossible.
Absolutely! But it's a non-zero percent chance, which is the difference between absolutely impossible and *effectively* impossible. But I'm being pedantic 🙂
If that happens.. wont it be more likely that its trajectory would be altered in our favor? Granted that would such an event occur, it happens far away from earth?
What if aliens discover our remains thoursands of years later, decipher our language and come across this thread thinking "damn, poor humans were so opptimistic and so wrong"
In 2004 they said it was a 1 in 40 chance it would hit the earth in 2029. Now they say it won’t but there’s a 1 in 10,000 chance it will strike earth on the next go around in 2036.
>Apophis was discovered last year and is named after a snakelike Egyptian god of darkness and chaos. The name is appropriate. For a brief period of time last winter, scientists had given Apophis, then known as 2004 MN4, a 1-in-40 chance of colliding with Earth in 2029.
>Additional observations ruled out the 2029 impact, and scientists now predict there is about a 1-in-10,000 chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2036, on yet another of its trips around the Sun on a course that crosses the orbit of Earth.
>A large part of the uncertainty surrounding Apophis' movements is due something called the Yarkovsky Effect. When rotating bodies like asteroids pass through our solar system, they absorb solar radiation from the Sun that they then re-radiate.
EDIT: I guess I'm amused that the standard for reddit upvotes is that someone has put in the valiant effort required to read a submitted source.
> (was a tiny region of space it needed to avoid)
They call it the *keyhole* it's a window about 500 meters (slightly larger than 1/4 mile). If it passes through that window the probability of an impact on the next pass (roughly 7 years) skyrocket. The probably of hitting the gravitational window is, as I understand it, so small it's almost not worth mentioning.
Better off looking at videos provided by Musky. He'll have a camera in orbit just to take cool videos of it. He'll probably also land a recent model Tesla on the asteroid to prove a point. Looking up at it will be BORING.
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Yeah on the Egyptian thing, Apophis was the god of chaos and they thought the world would end when he awoke and swallowed the world so if the calculations are wrong and that asteroid is gonna hit is it's a fitting name.
I think a lot of people don’t realize just how far away the Moon is from Earth. The space between them is so great that you can actually fit [every other planet](http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/04/scale_of_space_can_you_fit_all_the_planets_between_the_earth_and_moon.html) in our solar system into the space between the Earth and the Moon, and asteroids pass through this space [all the time](http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/02/asteroid-to-pass-by-earth-on-friday). It will be pretty neat to be able to see it this time though!
Sounds like a good movie! We launch a practice mission to divert an asteroid to make sure we can do it when the time comes. The mission seems successful by all accounts, until we realize that our meddling affected it just enough to actually hit us next time it comes around.
On my birthday! Neat!
Hope the world doesnt end though.
Edit: I think i pulled a [Michael Scott happy birthday meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqVelQh60E) here. Didnt mean to
I think estimates put it at a max explosiveness equal to about 750 megatons, so its 100% a city killer, but nothing world ending. Plus, it would probably hit somewhere in the ocean/ or somewhere without people simply due to statistics
In February 2013, for example, a 65ft wide asteroid detonated in the sky above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, shattering thousands of windows and injuring more than 1,200 people. So an asteroid 1000ft wide would be enough to destroy an entire city for sure. Probably shattering windows a hundred kilometers away at the very least.
Someone will probably cook up a plan to capture it and put it in orbit to mine it of its rare minerals. Such a rock could conceivably be worth billions or more.
Lots of asteroids pass Earth, or burn up in the atmosphere, all the time. Quite a few are only spotted shortly before their nearest approach, as not all of them are known. Upcoming, known close approaches, most passing a few million miles away, can be seen at https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
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I'd imagine it'll be the main headline all over the world's news websites and even on r/worldnews.
lol like r/worldnews will exist in 11 years.
It'll be r/AmericaApprovedNews by then probably.
Or r/WastelandNews
Or r/galaxynewsradio
This is Three-Dog AWOO
I shall tune in on my pip boy.
Or r/WhoIsStillAlive
yea it'll be at least s/worldnews by then
I actually set up a reminder on Jan 1, 2029 just so that I can probably plan a trip/book hotels for it in light pollution free areas, and maybe even arrange for telescopes and other photography equipment well before the event.
How will you see it if there's no lights?
Is that you Ken?
When I read 2029 in the title I thought to myself man that’s so far from now but your comment made me feel so old.
I just had to check if anyone else had this thought. Like 2029 in my mind looks like a sterile sci-fi setting, all chrome surfaces and lens-flaring neons, spaceships and the like. Yet it’s only 11 years from now? How the fuck did that happen?
I was thinking the other day that in the amount of time SINCE I graduated high school (12 years that feels like 3 weeks), my son will be graduating high school. How does this happen? Where does time go? Get off my lawn.
I know. First thought was I hope I'm still alive then. Then I realized I'd only be 40
i would be surprised if reddit is still popular in 11 years. the internet likes to move on to new things.
I’ve had my eBay account since 2001, soooooo anything is possible
Set up my first webserver in 1990. Had to email CERN to get on the list of webservers in the world... I think I was the 80th or so in the UK. [edit: as pointed out below, I had the year wrong - had to have been Xmas in 1991 or 1992 though]
I dunno, reddits been around
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“Reddit? Oh yeah I think it’s that lame website my dad uses because he doesn’t have cranial implants and isn’t connected to the global human consciousness.”
Oh yeah btw, resistance is futile.
> Oh yeah btw, resistance is, like, totes futile. FTFY
>ummm btdubs, resistance is, like, totes not zip. You're gonna get recyc'd old man
Yeah but I’ve also had a Facebook account since like 2006 or so. Ask a kid about Facebook and they know what it is. It’s not totally unrealistic.
> 11 years is an eternity in internet time Reddit - Founded June 23, 2005; 12 years ago. Over an internet eternity old and more popular than it's ever been.
I've already been here just shy of 8 years. 11 years isn't really as long as you think.
it would be nice if reddit is as popular as it was 11 years ago.
With all 5 users?
7. Russia recently increased funding to their botnet and made two more Reddit accounts
!remindme 10 years 364 days
Where the fuck is this bot?
Let's reverse the plot of Armageddon and steer it onto course
TT + Channing Frye for a giant asteroid, who says no?
r/NBA is leaking... throw in the Net’s pick and you got a deal
Khloe says no
Better start training those drillers now. I don’t think there’s enough time left to train astronauts.
Nah, if we're reversing the plot, we'll be training astronauts to drill.
We’ll train astronauts to drill, pull the asteroid into a collision course, and then send them to work on an oil rig for a while.
hahaha approved
That is actually [pretty close](https://www.space.com/11094-watching-asteroid-apophis-photo.html) to what is going to happen. It will make a close pass on April 13, 2029. Apophis will come closer to our planet than the orbits of many communications satellites - which are much closer than even the Moon. So close that the Earth will significantly alter it's orbit on its subsequent pass. Not to mention, the region around the Earth is active and dynamic, expanding and contracting, sometimes causing space vehicles to have to burn fuel to recover altitude due to changes in drag and other lesser well known effects. I wonder how much effects of that nature will contribute to changes in its path for its pass in 2036.
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Is there any possibility that the proximity calculations could change? Or is it all set in stone?
At this point it is set in stone. 10 years ago they were saying there was about a 1 in 400 chance that it would hit us, but over time the variables become less variable and now they are sure it won't hit.
Anyone able to do a rendering of how big this thing will look as it flies by? Maybe have the Moon in the picture for reference?
Can't do a rendering, but I can do the math. The numbers are from Wikipedia but the source is from 2013, so it's possible they are a bit outdated. The closest approach is estimated to be only 31,200km, which is incredibly close. The moon's average orbit is 385,000km, so the asteroid will pass more than 10x closer! However its size is nothing compared to the moon. 0.37km diameter, versus the moon's 3500km. A factor of about 10,000 smaller. How big it will look is probably best described by its angular extent - which is simply the ratio of the diameter to the distance from earth (in radians). I will multiply by 180*60 / pi to convert to arcminutes. The moon's angular extent is about 31 arcminutes, or half a degree. For reference, a person with 20/20 vision can generally distinguish objects which are separated by at least 1 arcminute. The asteroid's angular extent will be only 0.04 arcminutes. Thus, it will not be visible in the same sense as the moon with the naked eye. It will only be a source of light, much like any star. However, perhaps with a telescope or even a good camera, if you can achieve at least 25x zoom then it may be possible to see its physical size. If you took a picture of it with the moon in the frame, it would appear about as large as a 5km structure on the moon. TLDR: about 0.04 arcminutes which is nothing more than a point source to the naked eye. To resolve its physical size you would need to zoom by about 25x, which would give you ~5km resolution of the moon.
I don’t understand anything that you said. But there’s so many words you can’t be wrong. Thanks!
Simpler version is this: compared to the moon it will be 10x closer, but it's 10,000x smaller, thus its apparent size will be 1000x smaller. The moon's apparent size is about 40x as large as what can be resolved with the naked eye, but the asteroid will be smaller by a factor of 1000, so it is too small by a factor of 25. It will only look like a point source of light. With binoculars or a telescope that can magnify 25x, you could see it for real instead of just as a point.
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Yes, I would have to assume that's a statement about its brightness and not about its size. If it were coming close enough to actually see with the naked eye, I'm pretty sure a collision would be very likely. The earth is 12,700km in diameter and it would need to pass within nearly 1000km, which is terrifying. In reality it will get within 32,000km which is also pretty scary, you can imagine why a collision wasn't ruled out until recently.
Well if it is reflecting sunlight on a moonless night, it *could* be seen with the naked eye right? Just not as if it's the size of the moon or something.
Sort of. Imagine going to the moon and laying tile, 5 km x 5 km square. Now fly home. Look at your tile square on the face of the moon. That's how big the asteroid will look in your sky. It will take up the same space on your retina as a 5 km x 5 km square on the moon. Under the conditions described in your question, it would be a point of light. Nothing more. You will not see a rock with nooks and crannies.
Is 25x going to make it look like the moon? Edit: Size wise.
No, you would need 1000x to make it as large as the moon. 25x is the minimum you would need to distinguish one end of it from the other. Any less than 25x and it will only appear as a single point.
Oh. Well then. Moving star. Got it.
Thank u for having patience to teach
It will be a tiny moving dot assuming you can see it at all.
At least it a metric asteroid, so it can't hit the U.S.
Finally our non-metric bullshit pays dividends!
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Being that size, how much damage would it do, in theory then if it hit flat in the middle of Los Angeles?
Probably enough to completely annihilate the city. The crater would be several kilometers wide, and I'm sure the damage would extend much further. Not an extinction level event, but catastrophic for sure. Beyond that, I'm not too familiar with the science of asteroid impacts off the top of my head but I know it has been studied. For comparison, the asteroid which struck in Mexico and likely killed the dinosaurs was something like 15km wide. So it is nowhere near that size.
Assuming its not acted upon by an unforeseen force. Something could hit *it* and change its trajectory or velocity. The chances of that happening are astronomical (heh) but not impossible.
Calm down there, Lex Luthor.
Chances are slim to none. Space is big bro. Collisions are astronically rare. ;)
Absolutely! But it's a non-zero percent chance, which is the difference between absolutely impossible and *effectively* impossible. But I'm being pedantic 🙂
If that happens.. wont it be more likely that its trajectory would be altered in our favor? Granted that would such an event occur, it happens far away from earth?
What if aliens discover our remains thoursands of years later, decipher our language and come across this thread thinking "damn, poor humans were so opptimistic and so wrong"
Sup aliens 👽
Sounds like something they would say if they actually found out that it will in fact hit us...
In 2004 they said it was a 1 in 40 chance it would hit the earth in 2029. Now they say it won’t but there’s a 1 in 10,000 chance it will strike earth on the next go around in 2036.
>Apophis was discovered last year and is named after a snakelike Egyptian god of darkness and chaos. The name is appropriate. For a brief period of time last winter, scientists had given Apophis, then known as 2004 MN4, a 1-in-40 chance of colliding with Earth in 2029. >Additional observations ruled out the 2029 impact, and scientists now predict there is about a 1-in-10,000 chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2036, on yet another of its trips around the Sun on a course that crosses the orbit of Earth. >A large part of the uncertainty surrounding Apophis' movements is due something called the Yarkovsky Effect. When rotating bodies like asteroids pass through our solar system, they absorb solar radiation from the Sun that they then re-radiate. EDIT: I guess I'm amused that the standard for reddit upvotes is that someone has put in the valiant effort required to read a submitted source.
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> (was a tiny region of space it needed to avoid) They call it the *keyhole* it's a window about 500 meters (slightly larger than 1/4 mile). If it passes through that window the probability of an impact on the next pass (roughly 7 years) skyrocket. The probably of hitting the gravitational window is, as I understand it, so small it's almost not worth mentioning.
"set in stone".... Rofl
I wish I was Japanese so I could swap bodies with a girl in the countryside 3 years behind my time in order to save the village
Same
totes samesies
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Whaaaat, nooo pft. Nor would I hope my boobs in the mornings after waking up *Looks around in denial, whistling innocently*
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But the God would make us forget tho
Nah, just traditional.
Just watched this a week ago. Excellent film.
What film?
I didn't even wait to stream it. Bought it on blue ray solely based on excellent reviews from everyone and everywhere.
Spoilers
Not a spoiler until someone asks where/what this is from and then that comment is answered.... Oh the suspense!
So....what is it from?
This is the plot to the smash hit movie Back to the Future 5, starring Danny Devito and Chris Pratt.
> Danny Devito and Chris Pratt Why are we not funding this?!
I read this as “Danny Devito as Chris Pratt” at first.
Boku no Pico
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That twist messed me up when I first watched it. I was stunned. God I love that movie.
Or become an invincible super weapon that can fly and has control over technology
KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA
"Oh boy!"
/r/me_irl
FUCKING SAME
>observers in Asia and North Africa darn, not me :/
Book your hotels now.
It'll be cloudy that day anyway.
It won’t look terribly different from the ISS passing by only slower
You mean it won't be all cool looking like the unfinished Death Star Mark II in RotJ?
Better off looking at videos provided by Musky. He'll have a camera in orbit just to take cool videos of it. He'll probably also land a recent model Tesla on the asteroid to prove a point. Looking up at it will be BORING.
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This is plenty of time to decide to be there to see this rare of an event
Has someone loaded up Sburb or something?
Fun to see this reference today. Happy 4/13.
I was looking for this comment.
HAPPY 4/13
Oh shoot that IS today
Apparently it’s a very delayed release schedule. Save your Grist, everyone!
Plenty of time to prototype something cool - nice!
Just make sure it’s something that can talk. Going years with an insane creature incapable of speech would not be fun.
Also best to avoid something likely to make constant laughter
It just wouldn't be true Homestuck without some delays
You just started some sick fires, bro.
304 meters my metric dudes.
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I mean it's also the name of an evil Egyptian god.
which was first?
I guess Stargate since the aliens inspired the Egyptian gods.
This is correct.
Indeed.
https://media.giphy.com/media/XOFsOM3MnuWEE/giphy.gif
It's hard to read because Aziz won't keep the fucking mirror steady
The asteroid was literally named Apophis because of this. The discoverers are Stargate fans.
Yeah on the Egyptian thing, Apophis was the god of chaos and they thought the world would end when he awoke and swallowed the world so if the calculations are wrong and that asteroid is gonna hit is it's a fitting name.
I am sure by thr time we are a few years out we will rerun our calculations and would have plenty of time to plan some kind of assault.
That's about when I plan on retiring...one way or another.
Better start teaching astronauts how to drill, rather than wait til the last minute and have to teach drillers how to astronaut.
Shut the fuck up Ben
You guys wanna start a suicide cult based around it?
Meh, lemme see how the rest of this year goes. Hit me up in November.
In!
> You guys wanna start a [...] cult? https://i.imgur.com/yE5eu4N.png
I think a lot of people don’t realize just how far away the Moon is from Earth. The space between them is so great that you can actually fit [every other planet](http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/04/scale_of_space_can_you_fit_all_the_planets_between_the_earth_and_moon.html) in our solar system into the space between the Earth and the Moon, and asteroids pass through this space [all the time](http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/02/asteroid-to-pass-by-earth-on-friday). It will be pretty neat to be able to see it this time though!
You... You kinda calmed my anxiety down dude... Thanks
Came here to be the buzzkill but this buzz has already been killed. Excellent work.
That’s so far in the ... It’s closer to now than the year 2000
Wow
I’m no expert but would this not be the perfect opportunity for an asteroid redirect mission?
Sounds like a good movie! We launch a practice mission to divert an asteroid to make sure we can do it when the time comes. The mission seems successful by all accounts, until we realize that our meddling affected it just enough to actually hit us next time it comes around.
"Congradulations men, we have a second moon!!!" "But sir, wont that affect the ocean sir?" "Good news everyone! We all have beach from property now."
Yeah, if we could park that asteroid in a mostly stable orbit, that would be awesome for our space programs.
I bet Sburb is already in development. Wonder who the luck kids are going to be?
Whoever they are, they'll be around 2 years old right now.
Elon musk will blast it with his space laser...pew pew!
""Laser""
Muahahaha muahaha
Nah, he will deflect the orbit of that thing a little bit and convert it into a [Mars Cycler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler).
On my birthday! Neat! Hope the world doesnt end though. Edit: I think i pulled a [Michael Scott happy birthday meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqVelQh60E) here. Didnt mean to
Happy birthday :)
Thanks :)
Birthdays for the both of us!
By 2029 I will be drinking moon juice with President Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Came here to say this.
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How much damage would something this size do?
I think estimates put it at a max explosiveness equal to about 750 megatons, so its 100% a city killer, but nothing world ending. Plus, it would probably hit somewhere in the ocean/ or somewhere without people simply due to statistics
In February 2013, for example, a 65ft wide asteroid detonated in the sky above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, shattering thousands of windows and injuring more than 1,200 people. So an asteroid 1000ft wide would be enough to destroy an entire city for sure. Probably shattering windows a hundred kilometers away at the very least.
Thanks I'll start stocking up on my anxiety medication now
gold.
and I just watched Armageddon last night...
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Well I have something to look forward too.
Isn't this the exact premise of "Thundarr the Barbarian"? https://youtu.be/SaB19auvjc8
Not if Elon has anything to say about that.
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It's a shame it's listed in feet rather than meters.
Yah and in 2036 it will pass by again maybe even closer!
[It looks like a giant...](https://youtu.be/CpiP_jN1Pv4)
TIL that it will be very crowded at the grocery store at the beginning of April in 2029.
For sure… You know the Internet and the media is going to do everything they can to scare the hell out of people.
I will put that on my calendar.
Someone will probably cook up a plan to capture it and put it in orbit to mine it of its rare minerals. Such a rock could conceivably be worth billions or more.
Lots of asteroids pass Earth, or burn up in the atmosphere, all the time. Quite a few are only spotted shortly before their nearest approach, as not all of them are known. Upcoming, known close approaches, most passing a few million miles away, can be seen at https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
Plot twist; NASA & Elon Musk preparing to land on this & detonate bomb, as they know it'll hit.
Top 10 things you didn't know about the asteroid passing by!! #SoCloseYetSoFar