Near(ish) miss today...

Soapy Sam · Sep 29, 2004

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

EdipisReks · Sep 29, 2004

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

Soapy Sam · Sep 29, 2004

Well done, by Teutatis!

Zep · Sep 29, 2004

WhhooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooosssssh!

Yep.

Capsid · Sep 29, 2004

It would have made a big dent.

Lothian · Sep 29, 2004

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 · Sep 29, 2004

Capsid said:
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 · Sep 29, 2004

Zep said:
WhhooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooosssssh!

Yep.

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

alfaniner · Sep 29, 2004

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

Seismosaurus · Sep 29, 2004

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

Impact Effects

Gastric ReFlux · Sep 29, 2004

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

I knew because of Rapture Ready.

jj · Sep 29, 2004

Soapy Sam said:
Well done, by Teutatis!

Good, now let's roast the boar!

(where did that bard go?)

Soapy Sam · Sep 29, 2004

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