Thread: Close Encounter......

It was almost like daylight out side at 330 am here in Adelaide.🌚

Cheers Rod

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yeah Rod , but that's not unusual in Adelaide.

by the time the sun has gone down and the twilight sets in , if there's a moon it just doesn't get dark.

I lived there for several years and travel there at least twice a year.

Iooking forward to Dr Karl's response......providing I can listen

I would imagine its more to do with speed than size?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I sent an email to NASA asking that same question but didn't get a reply.

They probably are keeping it hush hush, they probably don't want to create mass hysteria about the fact that we re about to die now wheres' my bucket list

It will be affected by the Earth's gravity, and the Earth by the asteroid's gravity too, but not so much as we will notice. The asteroid will no doubt change direction in some way that is noticeable, the Earth will have a very minor change, again, it will be unnoticeable. As others have stated, the speed of the asteroid will mean it is not "captured" by Earth's gravity (like the moon is).

The law of gravity states that you can never escape gravity, but it is an inverse to the square of the distance, but directly proportional to the mass of the objects. Therefore if you double the distance, you quarter the gravity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton...al_gravitation

Another thing to consider with this near miss is the effect that other planets, our moon have on its flight path, might be closer than they think ? IF there was a hit there`s no Hollywood style fix. Might happen as there is a black president at the moment and we all know that in all earth ending disaster movies there is a black president. Solid evidence for me, might start stocking water and food now.
Cheers Hall

Let me know if its going to hit. I'd like to take up smoking again.
cheers,
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