INCOMING!, Detection and observation of Earth-approaching asteroids. |
INCOMING!, Detection and observation of Earth-approaching asteroids. |
Oct 6 2008, 07:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
no sone seems to have noticed this yet
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Oct 7 2008, 01:44 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 28-September 05 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 514 |
Here's a Celestia simulation of 2008 TC3's entry into Earth's atmopshere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FW3oaZgCz0 The green circle indicates the region where the asteroid is visible over the horizon. The trajectory of 2008 TC3 was taken from HORIZONS (about an hour ago.) --Chris |
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Oct 7 2008, 01:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
Here's a Celestia simulation of 2008 TC3's entry into Earth's atmopshere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FW3oaZgCz0 Judging from that clip, 2008TC3 is gonna come down at / explode over the Nubian Desert, somewhere in the center of the triangle made up by the cities Wadi Halfa, Atbara & Port Sudan. Man, I flew over there some years ago! EDIT: The Horizons system is very slow ... must have a lot of traffic! -------------------- |
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