Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth on May 29th‏

[Dingo]

Space Weather News for May 29, 2012
http://spaceweather.com

ASTEROID FLYBY: A small asteroid is flying past Earth today inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites and only 14,000 km above the surface of our planet. Named "2012 KT42," the 3- to 10-meter wide space rock ranks #6 on the top-20 list of known close-approachers to Earth, which makes it significant despite its small size.  More information and images may be found on http://spaceweather.com .


Doesn't look like it will be flying by me as it is not on the list but there are others that should be visible for me in Albury.  On May 31^st the the ISS with Dragon attached flys by here and that is visible with the naked eye if here are no clouds.

[Dataman]

Nice to know that on 5/30 there were 1293 potentially dangerous arteroids. I guess I should put my tinfoil hat on.  biggrin

:aus1:

[Dingo]

Not quite time to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye just yet.  :)

[Cosmicvandal]

another 9.5 months yet apparently!!!!

[LawryB]

Odds of spotting a UFO today: 3,000,000 to 1

Odds of a meteor landing on your house: 182,138,880,000,000 to 1

Chance that Earth will experience a catastrophic collision with an asteroid in the next 100 years: 1 in 5,000

Odds of injury from shaving: 6,585 to 1

Odds of fatally slipping in bath or shower: 2,232 to 1

Odds of dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1

Odds of getting hemorrhoids: 25 to 1

Which means keep out of the bathroom, eat plenty of fibre and expect a huge phone bill while you are contacting supermodels.

Stats from http://www.funny2.com/odds.htm