NASA eyes asteroid's close encounter with Earth

[Liberalman]

NASA eyes asteroid's close encounter with Earth

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/11/04/science-asteroid-earth-close.html

According to the article it will be a near miss and they knew about this for a while and they like to tell us a couple of days before it happens.

I have to wonder will it be a near miss or not and what other floating rocks are going to brush by earth and will there be any effects that we should know about?

What do you think?

 

[Johnnny]

The information relating to 2005 - YU55 has been general knowledge on spaceweather.com for awhile now.... Are you fear mongering? Because the information has always been available, it just has to be looked for.....

 

[darkbeaver]

It will land on Israel and save us all a lot of bad TV and movies not to mention war.

 

[#juan]

They are calling it a "near miss", on it's closest approach it will be 324,600 kilometres away. Almost as far as
the distance between the Earth and the moon. I wouldn't cash the family teasure for a big party yet :smile:

 

[gore0bsessed]

What if it destroys the moon..

 

[Cliffy]

What if it destroys the moon..

We will probably spin out of orbit. Nothing to worry about.... much.

 

[MHz]

Does this show that the gravity of the moon or earth has little to no effect on objects traveling around in space?

What exact time is the fly-by and which continent gets the best view.