The Space Thread

Next week on the 15th of February an asteroid the size of a swimming pool is going to skim past the earth. It will pass inside the orbit of earths satellites. No chance of it hitting is though. When it passes at the closest point Europe will be in darkness therefore should be spectacular.

Last time one this big hit earth it was in 1908 and crashed into siberia flattening 80 million trees.

This should be fun

Fantastic!! Great heads up, hoping for a clear night

corkery wrote: If you live in a city such as London, would the lights from the city not mess it up?

Don't know but id doubt it. It will be big but you'll need a binoculars to see it. For space that's damn close. Hampstead or shooters hill would be the best places to see it.

There's another one heading our way at the end of the year which is even bigger.

Edited by colemanY2K - 08 Feb 2013 at 6:09pm

Will Sky Television be covering this?

Bob Hoskins wrote: Asteroids are now strongly believed to be the spark for life to begin on earth. So Astreroids could be our great ancestors. Asteroids a great bunch of lads

Bob Hoskins wrote: Asteroids are now strongly believed to be the spark for life to begin on earth. So Astreroids could be our great ancestors. Asteroids a great bunch of lads

maybe there's something in this scientology lark after all

Apparently only Australia & parts of Asia will be able to see it.

deisedevil wrote: colemanY2K wrote: Next week on the 15th of February an asteroid the size of a swimming pool is going to skim past the earth. It will pass inside the orbit of earths satellites. No chance of it hitting is though. When it passes at the closest point Europe will be in darkness therefore should be spectacular. Last time one this big hit earth it was in 1908 and crashed into siberia flattening 80 million trees. This should be fun who counted the trees?

deisedevil wrote: colemanY2K wrote: Next week on the 15th of February an asteroid the size of a swimming pool is going to skim past the earth. It will pass inside the orbit of earths satellites. No chance of it hitting is though. When it passes at the closest point Europe will be in darkness therefore should be spectacular. Last time one this big hit earth it was in 1908 and crashed into siberia flattening 80 million trees. This should be fun who counted the trees?

quite simple really. Just count how many trees there are in a square kilometre and pro rata. The area of the strike was extremely remote. This event was called the tunguska event.