Asteroids

[Nemo]

Better get another jar or 2 of peanut butter.  More dayum stuff to be concerned about. 

Nemo



http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/815697/ASTEROID-WARNING-NASA-discovers-potentially-hazardous

ASTEROID WARNING: NASA discovers TEN ‘potentially hazardous’ rocks close to Earth
NASA has announced that it has discovered 10 new “potentially hazardous” space rocks close to Earth that could put life on this planet at risk.
By Sean Martin, PUBLISHED: 12:56, Sun, Jun 11, 2017 | UPDATED: 13:04, Sun, Jun 11, 2017


The space agency has been working tirelessly to identify dangers that Earth face from space, and has said that it has found 10 new asteroids of meteors which it believes could harm life on Earth.

The discovery was made by NASA’s asteroid detecting mission – Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or NEOWISE.

Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE principal investigator from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: “NEOWISE is not only discovering previously uncharted asteroids and comets, but it is providing excellent data on many of those already in our catalog.

“It is also proving to be an invaluable tool in in the refining and perfecting of techniques for near-Earth object discovery and characterisation by a space-based infrared observatory.”

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[Kbop]

yepper - there is a few of them - if you're curious, here is a list - complete with the orbital dynamics.
- this is the IAU list.
http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/PHAs.html

[JoJo]

yepper - there is a few of them - if you're curious, here is a list - complete with the orbital dynamics.
- this is the IAU list.
http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/PHAs.html

Nah but thanks.  I don't need to scared more than I am now.

[Kbop]

I hear you JoJo.
I treat them a bit like a thermonuclear bomb.
if you are at ground zero, you have nothing to worry about.

...  at least they only come in singles - unlike the man made fusion favored, fission firsted, fast fused types.