A small asteroid (~5 m) will hit Sudan on 2008 Oct 07 0246 UTC

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by d0mine • 18 years ago

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aston• 18 years ago

What will the impact be?

d0mine4• 18 years ago

Nothing serious.

"Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan" http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html

gduffy• 18 years ago

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html

"The absolute magnitude indicates that the object will not survive passage through the atmosphere."

henning• 18 years ago

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, WAKE UP SHEEPLE

petercooper2• 18 years ago

It's as much as an "impact" with Earth as dropping a sweetner in your coffee is an "impact."

d0mine4• 18 years ago

A little animation http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php?topic=45265.0

Minor Planet Electronic Circular http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html

run4yourlives5• 18 years ago

Anyone know if this is something of significance, or is this just going to put a little hole in the ground?

Aside: Poor (people of) Sudan. Like that country needs more issues.

d0mine4• 18 years ago

"It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere." http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news159.html

run4yourlives5• 18 years ago

In other words, barely news.

timtrueman• 18 years ago

"Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time."

That's pretty significant/awesome.

maxklein2• 18 years ago

Oh yes, the poor population of Sudan, huddled together on 5 meters of ground, and that is the exact 5 meters that gets hit by an asteroid. What are the odds?

run4yourlives5• 18 years ago

You do realize that meteor impacts affect more than just the immediate area, right?

HendrikR• 18 years ago

See this press release: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200819.html

comatose_kid• 18 years ago

Excellent. A post that teaches me something about hacking and about how to become a better entrepreneur at the same time.

ashleyw• 18 years ago

For a moment I thought "~5 m" meant that it was going to be around 1/3 of the "15 m" asteroid that hit earth and caused dinosaurs to go extinct.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

Explain, for us astronomically-challenged, please?

jbyers• 18 years ago

This little asteroid will be 5 m(eters) in diameter, quite a lot less than 15 m(iles) in diameter. :)

Note that if we're talking about the asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater, most references seem to have the size a bit smaller, ~6 miles in diameter. Still, that's a big rock.

petercooper2• 18 years ago

Poor headline. It might hit Sudanese airspace, but not "Sudan" as in the land forming that country. It might not even high Sudanese airspace, as it'll burn up in the "upper atmosphere."

d0mine4• 18 years ago

Agreed.

"hit Sudan" is not as precise as "hit Earth this morning, Oct. 7th, and exploded in the atmosphere over northern Sudan." http://www.spaceweather.com/

A small asteroid (~5 m) will hit Sudan on 2008 Oct 07 0246 UTC

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