Near(ish) miss today...

[Soapy Sam]

Who knew that a 3 mile wide asteroid (Teutatis) passed within a million miles of Earth today?

 

[EdipisReks]

i did. it was posted on /. a couple of days ago.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Well done, by Teutatis!

 

[Zep]

WhhooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooosssssh!

Yep.

 

[Capsid]

It would have made a big dent.

 

[Lothian]

Yes I knew. It was going to hit us until I used my mind power to deflect the asteroid from its collision path with earth. [/uri]

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

It would have made a big dent.

No crap! How big was the K/T object across? 1km? 6km? Just for fun lets work out what would have happened. What is Teutatis's mass and speed?

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

WhhooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooosssssh!

Yep.

Silly rabbit, there is no sound in the parts of space that have no gas. So no Doppler Shift in sound.

 

[alfaniner]

Cool! I'm going to have to check my Starry Night program and see how "close" it came!

 

[Seismosaurus]

A good site to play with for this kind of thing :

Impact Effects

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Who knew that a 3 mile wide asteroid (Teutatis) passed within a million miles of Earth today?

I knew because of Rapture Ready.

 

[jj]

Well done, by Teutatis!

Good, now let's roast the boar!

(where did that bard go?)

 

[Soapy Sam]

He's hiding under a shield in case a menhir falls on him.