By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-03 16:59:31 | Updated at 2024-12-04 08:34:15
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Tiny Asteroid To Hit Earth Over Siberia Today – Here's What To Know
IFL Science ^ | December 03, 2024 | Staff
Posted on 12/03/2024 7:56:17 AM PST by Red Badger
The location the asteroid will burn over.
Image Credit: PorcupenWorks/Shutterstock.com, modified by IFLScience
In a matter of hours, a small asteroid will burn over the Siberian skies. This is only the 11th time that an asteroid has been predicted to hit our planet before it actually happened, but it shows that the system of planetary defense is working!
At around 4:15 pm UTC today, the asteroid will burn in the atmosphere. The object is tiny, about 70 centimeters (27.6 inches) in diameter. It's not the smallest known asteroid – a previously predicted impactor holds that record for now. It's still pretty small and a testament to the observatories that can spot these tiny rocks and the software developed to quickly work out where and when they are going to hit.
The location the asteroid will burn over.
Image Credit: PorcupenWorks/Shutterstock.com, modified by IFLScience
In a matter of hours, a small asteroid will burn over the Siberian skies. This is only the 11th time that an asteroid has been predicted to hit our planet before it actually happened, but it shows that the system of planetary defense is working!
At around 4:15 pm UTC today, the asteroid will burn in the atmosphere. The object is tiny, about 70 centimeters (27.6 inches) in diameter. It's not the smallest known asteroid – a previously predicted impactor holds that record for now. It's still pretty small and a testament to the observatories that can spot these tiny rocks and the software developed to quickly work out where and when they are going to hit.
TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Military/Veterans; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: 70centimeters; astronomy; catastrophism; impact; science
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DON'T LOOK UP!........................
1 posted on 12/03/2024 7:56:17 AM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
I doubt it’ll do much damage.
2 posted on 12/03/2024 7:57:24 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Red Badger
What ‘System of Planetary Defence” is being spoken of here? There is one? I was under the impression that we only sometimes “see” asteroids, comets, and meteors coming? And sometimes not at all ahead if they come at us “from the sun” angle?
3 posted on 12/03/2024 8:00:17 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
To: No name given
The asteroid was discovered by the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson Arizona. This is the fourth prediction of an asteroid impact in 2024. In January, a bright fireball burned over Berlin and left behind extremely rare meteorites. In September, a bright fireball exploded over the Philippines. Another one burned over the Pacific in October. Four in one year is a new record!
The region where the fireball is expected to take place is scarcely populated so we might not get footage like after the Chelyabinsk meteor. Plus this asteroid is more than 30 times smaller than that so it won’t be as spectacular or damaging.
4 posted on 12/03/2024 8:00:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
5 posted on 12/03/2024 8:00:44 AM PST by shotgun
To: Red Badger
6 posted on 12/03/2024 8:00:53 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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The village of Lansk might lose some phone service and windows... do they even have phones?
7 posted on 12/03/2024 8:02:43 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay
Ping!.....................
8 posted on 12/03/2024 8:05:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Tiny? It’s going to have a self-esteem problem.
9 posted on 12/03/2024 8:07:58 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Red Badger
Tiny Asteroid.
In other words, a meteor. Like thousands that enter the earth’s atmosphere daily.
10 posted on 12/03/2024 8:08:08 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
To: Red Badger
If I lived in Lansk I think I’d get in my Yugo and take a road trip......at least go as far as I could until it broke down 😏
11 posted on 12/03/2024 8:10:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Red Badger
Good news, we are making improvement.
(weird I already made this point on Another thread today)
While a massive asteroid strike is nearly nonexistent in % chance per year the resulting damage would be nearly infinite.
So .0000001 % chance times infinity is still enormous. The article I read said it was an insurance type probability problem. Same article said just for the yearly price to maintain one McDonald’s restaurant we could fairly well scan, Map and monitor most of the dangerous asteroids in the solar system.
That my friends is cheap insurance.
12 posted on 12/03/2024 8:11:48 AM PST by Phoenix8
To: Carriage Hill
13 posted on 12/03/2024 8:12:35 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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14 posted on 12/03/2024 8:13:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I’m kind of busy today.
Can we reschedule this?
15 posted on 12/03/2024 8:16:33 AM PST by occamrzr06
To: V_TWIN
Only Party Elites get Yugos! Commoner Comrades get Zastavas!
16 posted on 12/03/2024 8:17:35 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Just as long as everyone knows it’s NOT a nuclear event.
17 posted on 12/03/2024 8:20:18 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
To: Red Badger
Looks like a Fiat 500 that had a bastard child 😂
18 posted on 12/03/2024 8:20:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Red Badger
We used to see Soviet Ladas when I was a kid and we went up into Canada to fish remotely. Sault St. Marie Ontario had an import dealership. Looked like boxy, poorly-made utilitarian only crap then.
19 posted on 12/03/2024 8:21:29 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
To: Red Badger
There has to be a “climate change” angle here.
20 posted on 12/03/2024 8:25:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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