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Asteroid 2012 KT12 Close Approach To Earth / Moon 05/23/2012



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2012 KT12 JPL Data
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012%20KT12

2012
KT12 GLP Thread
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1876893/pg1


Added: May-22-2012 Occurred On: May-22-2012
By: MaKaElectric
In: Science and Technology
Tags: "2012, KT12", "Asteroid, 2012, KT12", Asteroid, GLP, "GLP, Thread", "2012, Asteroid", 2012, "Near, Earth, Asteroid", "Near, Moon, Asteroid"
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  • Astroid shmastroid! Comets are the shit! Gotta watch out for those long period comets. One day you're walking around la-di-da, and then BAM!!! A comet comes out from behind the sun and turns the planet into a shapeless blob of liquid hot magma!

    Posted May-22-2012 By 
    mikedelta12 (375.60)  

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  • Cool stuff. In looking at the orbital models, it looks like a ready made dumb waiter from Earth to Mars. It gets close to both regularly it seems.

    Posted May-22-2012 By 
    thirstyschaivo (276.20)

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  • it'd going to be close, but not that close, maybe next time around

    Posted May-22-2012 By 
    PocoBueno (1320.08)  

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  • Since most of us do not speak astronomical distance unit gibberish, I looked it up:

    1 AU = ~150 million kilometers
    1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

    So, for this asteroid, at a LD of 1.4, the distance from earth will be 537,600 km or 334,049 miles.

    334,049 miles, in astronomy terms, is very close indeed. To make things more interesting, the Condition Code, or orbit uncertainty, for this rock is an 8 on a scale of 0-9, with 0 being good, and 9 being highly uncertain.

    Good luck and More..

    Posted May-22-2012 By 
    gregsto (2481.78)  

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  • Well, it's already that time..I haven't seen shit....So, I say yep, that was a close one!

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    chichild (14.24)

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  • Too bad its not going to hit anything - I would LOVE to have read that it was going to hit or graze the moon or the earth--its time for some major shit to happen. we as humans need to be stepped on by nature-kinda like kicking an anthill--just would love to see it happen

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    Jegsman (270.56)  

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  • Gee, thank you for reading the article for me, saved me a bunch of trouble there.

    What's the point?

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    givinr (395.34)  

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    • @givinr That's what I thought. And it wasn't as if he put any laymens terms to use either. With LD, he could have at least explained what Lunar Distance measurements imply.

      Posted May-23-2012 By 
      ChaosClown (59.70)  

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  • I get ALL of my asteroid predictions from MaKa - when he says they're going to miss, they ALWAYS do....so far

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    Ally_Gator (536.80)  

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  • Hope you nerds took notes. It's information only!

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    Lacroix (330.80)  

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  • 30% of the time, it works everytime.

    Posted May-23-2012 By 
    Matchill (164.30)  

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