The YU55 Asteroid

[JoeyGowdy]

Today's the day an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier passes by Earth within the moon's orbit - about as close as we want anything that size to get.
Scientists confidently reassure us that asteroid YU55 it will neither hit us or cause any disruption to our day. But it will nonetheless be a topic of conversation, and it's worth knowing a bit about our massive visitor to show your friends you're asteroid savvy.
Apart from the technical stuff - that YU55 is a quarter-mile wide, travelling at 30,000mph and will get within 201,700 miles of us - what is there to know, and where can it be seen as it sweeps by?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2058909/Asteroid-YU55-Your-guide-tracking-it-streaks-past-earth-today.html#ixzz1d7mZQP7R

[bordin34]

^^^^^^ First useful post ever.

[Darkman]

30,000 mph and it doesn't even have a Hemi in it 

[Old Moparz]

That's not a photo of an asteroid, that's just the back of his head with bad lighting.

[JoeyGowdy]

I'm more interested in the Nibiru Collision and Apophis Asteroid.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_collision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

[Tilar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_collision

A little quote from the Nibiru page...

The idea was first put forward in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder describes herself as a contactee with the ability to receive messages from extra-terrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain.

I want some of what she's smokin!

[67440chrg]

OK. Just let me know weather to duck if it just close or go pay a visit to that hot chick down the street if it is going to be over.

[RallyeMike]

What do you suppose the chances are of deflecting it just enough to land in Mississippi ?

[Fred]

30,000 mph and it doesn't even have a Hemi in it  

No but it was  hemi orange with a wing on it.

[bull]

Shouldn't the title be something like "Rowdy Gowdy's YU55 Asteroid"?

[bakerhillpins]

What do you suppose the chances are of deflecting it just enough to land in Mississippi ?

[JoeyGowdy]

30,000 mph and it doesn't even have a Hemi in it  

No but it was  hemi orange with a wing on it.