[meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011

From: John Lutzon <jl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:28:19 -0400
Message-ID: <E86A9E77061240AABEE18FF128527829_at_Home>

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lutzon" <jl at hc.fdn.com>
To: "Dennis Miller" <astroroks at hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip
Past Earth on June 27, 2011


>
> Dennis & List
>
> Well, better odds than the lottery; i'll take GPS 26 to take the hit.
> Solely based on SWAG (scientific wild-assed quess)
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Miller" <astroroks at hotmail.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Richard Kowalski"
> <kowalski at lpl.arizona.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip
> Past Earth on June 27, 2011
>
>
>>
>> Hello, Richard!! Thanks for passing on the clip. Is there a pool for
>> the asteroid
>>
>> taking out a GPS satellite? I see that the best viewing will be
>> Australia and
>>
>> Antarctica. Is there anyone at McMurdo this time of year??
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:13:24 -0700
>>> From: damoclid at yahoo.com
>>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to
>>> Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011
>>>
>>> UGH
>>> I'm glad that wasn't the headline for the release about 2011 CQ.
>>>
>>> Anyway, there is a bit of discussion about this object ove ron my Minor
>>> Planet Mailing List, including the possibility thatthis might be some
>>> old space junk returning.
>>>
>>> List members here might be interested in some animationsPasquale
>>> Tricarico at the Planetary Science Institute put together. Pretty cool
>>> seeing how much the orbit is changed by the encounter with the earth.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://orbit.psi.edu/~tricaric/2011MD.html
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard Kowalski
>>> Full Moon Photography
>>> IMCA #1081
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>>> To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:30 PM
>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip
>>> Past Earth on June 27, 2011
>>>
>>>
>>> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news172.html
>>>
>>> Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011
>>> Don Yeomans & Paul Chodas
>>> NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
>>> June 23, 2011
>>>
>>> [Graphic]
>>> Trajectory of 2011 MD projected onto the Earth's orbital plane. Note
>>> from this viewing angle, the asteroid passes underneath the Earth.
>>>
>>> [Graphic]
>>> Trajectory of 2011 MD from the general direction of the Sun.
>>>
>>> Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500
>>> miles) above the Earth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 9:30 EDT.
>>> The asteroid was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth object discovery
>>> team observing from Socorro, New Mexico. The diagram on the left shows
>>> the trajectory of 2011 MD projected onto the Earth's orbital plane over
>>> a four-day interval. The diagram on the left gives another view from the
>>> general direction of the Sun that indicates that 2011 MD will reach its
>>> closest Earth approach point in extreme southern latitudes (in fact over
>>> the southern Atlantic Ocean). This small asteroid, only 5-20 meters in
>>> diameter, is in a very Earth-like orbit about the Sun, but an orbital
>>> analysis indicates there is no chance it will actually strike Earth on
>>> Monday. The incoming trajectory leg passes several thousand kilometers
>>> outside the geosynchronous ring of satellites and the outgoing leg
>>> passes well inside the ring. One would expect an object of this size to
>>> come this close to Earth about every 6 years on average. For a brief
>>> time, it will be bright enough to be seen even with a modest-sized
>>> telescope.
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