Asteroid 2005 YU55 to miss Earth November 8, 2011
This article, Asteroid 2005 YU55 to miss Earth November 8, 2011, gives the details on the Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 which is 1300 feet in Diameter, and that will pass between the earth and the moon on November 8, 2011. That will be the closest that any Tracked Near Earth Object bigger then a meter or two has gotten to Earth without hitting it since they started the program so this will be a great learning opportunity for NASA and other scientists.
SUMMARY: Asteroid 2005 YU55 will come no closer then 201,889 miles from the earth. Their is a lot of misinformation on this one floating on the web. This is straight from the NASA Website.
Most of this article is from the NASA Near Earth Orbit project . We recommend going to their website and reading this and other Near Earth orbit Asteroid Stories at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
You can click on the link below to see a simple animation of Asteroid 2005 YU55s projected path: Asteroid 2005 YU%% projected path
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Asteroid 2005 YU55 to miss Earth November 8, 2011
Don Yeomans, Lance Benner and Jon Giorgini
March 10, 2011
Most Know Facts:
The Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 is 400 Meters in Diameter, thats huge, and it will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011. That will be the closest that any Tracked Near Earth Object bigger then a meter or two has gotten to Earth without hitting it since they started the program so this will be a great learning opportunity for NASA and other scientists.
In Terms of space and Asteroids and the Earth that is amazinglyu close. So close that it should be easily visible to the naked eye.
The rest of this article is straight from the NASA website and unedited:
The upcoming close approach by this relatively large 400 meter-sized, C-type asteroid presents an excellent opportunity for synergistic ground-based observations including optical, near infrared and radar data. The attached animated illustration shows the Earth and moon flyby geometry for November 8th and 9th when the object will reach a visual brightness of 11th magnitude and should be easily visible to observers in the northern and southern hemispheres. The closest approach to Earth and the Moon will be respectively 0.00217 AU and 0.00160 AU on 2011 November 8 at 23:28 and November 9 at 07:13 UT.
Discovered December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson Arizona, the object has been previously observed by Mike Nolan, Ellen Howell and colleagues with the Arecibo radar on April 19-21, 2010 and shown to be a very dark, nearly spherical object 400 meters in diameter. Because of its approximate 20-hour rotation period, ideal radar observations should include tracks that are 8 hours or longer on multiple dates at Goldstone (November 3-11) and when the object enters Arecibo’s observing window on November 8th.
Using the Goldstone radar operating in a relatively new “chirp” mode, the November 2011 radar opportunity could result in a shape model reconstruction with a resolution of as fine as 4 meters. Several days of high resolution imaging (about 7.5 meters) are also planned at Arecibo. As well as aiding the interpretation of the radar observations, collaborative visual and near infrared observations could define the object’s rotation characteristics and provide constraints upon the nature of the object’s surface roughness and mineral composition.
Since the asteroid will approach the Earth from the sunward direction, it will be a daylight object until the time of closest approach. The best time for new ground-based optical and infrared observations will be late in the day on November 8, after 21:00 hours UT from the eastern Atlantic and western Africa zone. A few hours after its close Earth approach, it will become generally accessible for optical and near-IR observations but will provide a challenging target because of its rapid motion across the sk
 Edge-on view to the ecliptic plane |
Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type will not happen again until 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within 0.6 lunar distances.
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Umm The nasa website says its going to be .08 lunar distance now. Thats 98,000 miles from earth.
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This will be a very close call i pray it is only that. Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program A potentially hazardous Asteroid known as 2005 YU55.
This Asteroid some what Large 400 meter-sized type – C, will pass by the Earth right between our moon and Earth. On November 8, 2011.
The people on Earth have not seen a Asteroid of this size in advance. One this big Has not impacted Earth in over at least 4 thousand years.
Most Objects that have a diameters over 45 meters or 147.637 ft strike the Earth approximately once every thousand years or so. Lying flat everything for hundreds of miles.
Like the TUNGUSKA 1908 SIBERIA, RUSSIA CRASH OR Tunguska Explosion. This one did not even hit the Earth with its full Impact, it burst high in the air above the ground plowing it apart into many smaller parts. Making thousands of very deep holes in the Russian forests. Many of them in dense forest far from any roads or towns.
One 400 Meters 1,312.3 ft in diameter like this one YU55 weighing millions of tons would if impacted Earth on land would darken all of the Earth not for just days but much longer.
It would change the weather not seen on Earth in over thousands of years a massive climate change to say the least.
Asteroids in our Asteroid Belt that is between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars do have collisions and some do turn into meteoroids many in the past thousands of years have come into the Earth's Atmosphere. Many of thousands of them make it into Meteorites the signs are all over the Earth, craters of all sizes.
Now Earth going through a Debris Field or Tail at almost the same time as Asteroid YU55 near Earth Miss? C0MET C/2010 X1 Debris field will be very Large to say the least. Discovered by Russian Astronomer Leonid Elenin.
The World and NASA will watch Outer Space very closely the next 30 days.
Most likely more Earthquakes and the Oceans Tide will be strongly affected just from a near miss. The Gravitational Effects from this event will most likely effect Earth for days.
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