Closest By Far (asteroid)

[Darkshot]

http://hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0408/22.htm#04fu162

Anyone else kind of amazed at how much luck we have? So far we've had all these asteroids coming close, and not one has hit us. Someone's looking out for us.

PS also, any chance of this being put into Celestia, i'd kinda like to watch it almost annihilate us.

[chris]

Even if it was on a collision course with Earth, an object of this size would have vaporized in the atmosphere without harming anything on the ground. There are probably quite a few objects of this size that approach within 25000km of Earth each year but go completely undetected.

--Chris

[symaski62]

http://hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0408/24.htm

image vois

[Darkshot]

Even if it was on a collision course with Earth, an object of this size would have vaporized in the atmosphere without harming anything on the ground. There are probably quite a few objects of this size that approach within 25000km of Earth each year but go completely undetected.

--Chris

Yeah, I realize this, but I'd still think it would be interesting to see someone put it in. That way we could watch it, sorta like the one a few years ago. forget the name

[selden]

You should try putting it in yourself: its orbital parameters are described in MPEC 2004-Q22 : 2004 FU162

and a description of how to translate them is at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/transforming_ephemeris.html

[Darkshot]

Ok thanks. I have a little experience in making the SSC stuff, so I'll give it a shot.