Comments on: Asteroid To Enter Earth's Atmosphere Tonight (Oct. 6)

By: Johnny Fish

Johnny Fish — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:56:28 +0000

Apparently the asteroid burned up in the atomsphere. Here is a link that discusses more about it. Page down a couple times to read specifically about this asteroid.

http://www.universetoday.com/category/asteroids/

By: David Gortler

David Gortler — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:54:07 +0000

That is an awesome photo. We would like to learn more on that..

Thanks
david

By: quickcalc

quickcalc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:56:45 +0000

Answering my own post here…

Post from 'Peter' above refers to http://www.spaceweather.com/
where there appears to be no further news
Good site though – work a browse if you haven't already seen it….

By: quickcalc

quickcalc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:52:06 +0000

Any update on this – e.g. any observations or images to report?????

By: dethzeppelin

dethzeppelin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:11:27 +0000

if we see one thats earth threatening i have faith well pull a armagedon scenerio where we divert it.

By: RetardedFishFrog

RetardedFishFrog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Quantum Flux – I'd say it's slightly obscure rather than vague. One would have to be familiar with end time prophecy to make the connection. A fifteen foot wide meteor is far from representing God's wrath. I like to make the occasional quirky comment. Just having fun.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:49 +0000

I can see the prices going up already and comet protectors sold on the streets.XD

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:22:54 +0000

OMG.we're all gonna die!!

By: Jesus

Jesus — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:41:06 +0000

~~Paulo Ribeiro Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
The most weird and scary is that the asteroid was found just before it hit the earth. Can you imagine if it was a big one.~~

The reason they just found it was because it's so small and most definitely harmless, unless it crashes thru your roof.. When you consider the amount of garbage floating in space, it would make deciphering a 3-15 foot meteor from a 3-15 foot piece of space junk very hard.

By: Pauly

Pauly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:32:04 +0000

Odds are between 99.8 and 100 percent that the object will encounter Earth

I don't like those odds.

By: Rey

Rey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Yeh, I remember that image. It was years ago, in APOD.

By: Darlington

Darlington — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:10:26 +0000

Get with the program guy's, journalist use stock photos, that’s the nature of the business… so it makes sense, it could be anything and was picked because it looks simular to what the story's about. Love the work Nancy.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:44 +0000

So why would you show a photo pf an aircraft con-trail ???

On 2008 TC3 ……Space Weather has an unconfirmd report of a KLM pilot sighting

By: M Ahsan

M Ahsan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:41:56 +0000

Latest news tell that the calculations were misleading.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:13:32 +0000

Augghh! That picture! Sorry, it's not an asteroid, it's not a meteor; it is indeed a contrail from the Concorde. This pic made a big splash years ago, with APOD even posting it as a meteoric fireball, and later having to retract that identification.

One of many links:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031013.html

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:45:25 +0000

retardedfishfrog, is that a vague reference to end time prophecy!? Anyhow, wish I lived in Africa, that will be so cool!

By: Mang

Mang — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:39:30 +0000

Shouldn't that read "Meteoroid To Enter Earth's Atmosphere Tonight (Oct. 6)" as the object is less than 5 meters in diameter.

Still impressive though.

By: RetardedFishFrog

RetardedFishFrog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:57:46 +0000

wormwood

By: Silver Thread

Silver Thread — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:25:39 +0000

Man, it'd be AWESOME to capture it.

By: Paulo Ribeiro

Paulo Ribeiro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:01:08 +0000

The most weird and scary is that the asteroid was found just before it hit the earth. Can you imagine if it was a big one….

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:41:19 +0000

It's an asteroid. I tried posting the link to where I pulled the image from here in the comments and the autobot thought I was spamming (no one is immune, it seems!) So look for the image source at the bottom of the article.
Nancy

By: law mc

law mc — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:32:12 +0000

i too am very interested of what the picture is. looks like a mini tunguska event

By: Reinier

Reinier — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:11:16 +0000

Looks like an aircraft contrail lit by the setting sun.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:53:56 +0000

What is the picture of?

By: El Sofista - Esta noche entra un asteroide en la atmósfera terrestre

El Sofista - Esta noche entra un asteroide en la atmósfera terrestre — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:18:54 +0000

Hace apenas unas horas se descubrió un asteroide (2008 TC3) de entre 1 y 5 metros que probablemente dará un espectacular show de luces a medida que descienda por la atmósfera de la Tierra [...] Fuente: Nancy Atkinson para Universe Today, y Center for Astrophysics, Minor Planet Center.