Tomorrow we're all goners: asteroid strike (or not)

[Bill Mattocks]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/asteroid-double-whammy-near-earth-tomorrow/

The first, asteroid 2010 RX30, will come within 154,100 miles of Earth — about 60 percent of the Earth-moon distance — at 5:51 a.m. EDT. This asteroid is estimated to be about 42 feet across.
The second, 2010 RF12, will come almost 12 hours later, at 5:12 p.m. EDT. It will swing by Earth at just 20 percent the Earth-moon distance, or 47,845 miles. 2010 RF12 is even smaller, only about 23 feet across.

Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/asteroid-double-whammy-near-earth-tomorrow/#ixzz0ysjFetNK​

And they just found them on Sunday. Nice work, guys.

 

[Archangel M]

Bah. 23-24' diameters? They probably wont make it to ground w/o burning up.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Bah. 23-24' diameters? They probably wont make it to ground w/o burning up.

Sure, spoil all my fun.

 

[Archangel M]

 

[Empty Hands]

The meteor that created the Barringer Crater in Arizona was predicted to only be 50 meters in diameter. The crater is 4000 feet in diameter and 570 feet deep.

 

[Archangel M]

Uhhh..it was 50 METERS wide. And believed to have been metal. These are said to be rock and only FEET across.

http://www.meteorcrater.com/

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Uhhh..it was 150' wide.

Killjoy!

 

[Omar B]

 

[MA-Caver]

Quick somebody call Bruce Willis... or Robert Duvall

 

[jks9199]

So does that mean that I shouldn't have taken the opportunity to tell my boss exactly what I think of him? And that I really do need my homework for tomorrow?

 

[Empty Hands]

Uhhh..it was 50 METERS wide. And believed to have been metal. These are said to be rock and only FEET across.

Yeah, the larger is about 1/4 the size. So a crater about 1000 feet in diameter and 150 feet or so deep assuming proportionality. Not a world-ender, but at least as powerful as a nuclear weapon.