Near Earth Objects

[LaurieAG]

.  I need to start putting food out to attract more skeeter eating birds. Any recommendations?

 

I always found that not displacing the local spiders and gecko's always helps to reduce mozzies. If you have to tidy up outside just remove the cobwebs not the spiders themselves. Once you have plenty of spiders and gecko's around you might even attract some birds who eat mozzies as well as spiders and gecko's lol.

[Turtle]

Hi Guys,

 

I found this article on different summer meteor showers if you're interested in that kind of thing. I use a free app on my cell phone called "Skyveiw" to locate the spots in the sky I want to look at. This app will also show you/locate and name different galaxies, nebulae, constellations, and stars for you. Saw a few SS's last night, but couldn't stay out too long, the sqeeuters were everywhere and ravenous.  I need to start putting food out to attract more skeeter eating birds. Any recommendations?

 

 

 

https://www.space.com/37665-meteor-showers-summer-2017-skywatching.html

:thumbs_up on the link. Thnx.

 

On the birds. While most birds will eat insects, many don't hunt them regularly and eat seeds instead. Putting out seed will draw primarily seed eating birds so not much help with mo' squitos. In addition, putting out seeds will draw mice and rats. I quit feeding birds 3 years ago for this very reason. Try removing any standing water where the little buggers breed. :fly:

[Deepwater6]

https://www.space.com/37676-asteroid-2012-tc4-earth-flyby-tracking-practice.html

 

They always say the same thing "It has no danger of striking the earth though". I wonder how they would phrase the story if they did see one coming the size of a house that would hit? Maybe nothing huh? I guess you would have two problems then. People who would panic living in the strike zone and space nuts who would flock to the area to get a glimpse of it coming in and possibly recover some of it.

 

When you click on the (in images Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Near Earth) link in the article and see how many surround us, it's almost impossible to believe we don't get bumped more often.

 

Thanks for advice on the blood suckers guys. The standing water is a good point Turtle. I didn't open my pool this year and although I loaded it up with Cl2 weeks ago I'm sure the residual has dropped off by now with the sun beating on it.

[Turtle]

 

https://www.space.com/37676-asteroid-2012-tc4-earth-flyby-tracking-practice.html

 

They always say the same thing "It has no danger of striking the earth though". I wonder how they would phrase the story if they did see one coming the size of a house that would hit? Maybe nothing huh? I guess you would have two problems then. People who would panic living in the strike zone and space nuts who would flock to the area to get a glimpse of it coming in and possibly recover some of it.

 

I think the news will out. Amateurs will want the credit for the sighting and prediction, and the authorities won't want the blame for hiding information that could have prevented the loss of life and/or property. :ebomb:   :shocked:

[Deepwater6]

The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend. I don't think the moon will help out too much It's supposed to b near full.

 

https://www.meteorites-for-sale.com/

 

I'm interested in buying the largest meteorites I can find, I was looking for some that are larger than what's in the link I attached. Has anyone ever dealt with a reputable dealer, be it a company, or another collector who wishes to sell?

[Deepwater6]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/nasa-a-large-asteroid-will-pass-earth-in-september/vi-AAqikI9

 

 

WHOOA, almost 3 miles wide. That could ruin your day on impact.   

 

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/asteroid-the-size-of-a-house-%e2%80%98will-skim%e2%80%99-past-earth/vi-AApSQ8I

 

 

 

getting busy out there.    :Bump2: 

[Turtle]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/nasa-a-large-asteroid-will-pass-earth-in-september/vi-AAqikI9

 

 

WHOOA, almost 3 miles wide. That could ruin your day on impact.   

 ...

getting busy out there.    :Bump2:

Here's an estimate of the ruin using the impact calculator. I input asteroid type as rocky, speed 7 km/s, angle of descent 45 degrees, striking sedimentary rock 10 kilometers away from you.

 

Earth Impact Effects Calculator

[Deepwater6]

https://www.space.com/38013-huge-asteroid-florence-makes-earth-flyby.html

 

Did it's fly by this morning. No danger to Earth this time.

[Buffy]

I ducked anyway.

 

 

They're coming in too fast! :phones:

Buffy

[Deepwater6]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/opinions/earth-dodges-a-cosmic-bullet-opinion-lincoln/index.html

 

More to watch out for than falling rocks I suspect. :shade:  I heard about one of these a couple days ago, I didn't think they were that big, but I guess I was wrong. Not a comet or an asteroid, but something that can produce serious disruption and or destruction. =@

[Deepwater6]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/us/nasa-osiris-rex-slingshot-past-earth/index.html

 

OSIRIS-REx; Sounds like a Greek dinosaur to me, but it will be an object and it will be passing near the Earth. Hopefully it doesn't get taken out by one of NK's   errant missile tests.  I have to look it up but I don't think even the small possibility Bennu would make contact is somewhere in the range 2025 to 2035. So we don't have to worry about it just yet. If I remember correctly the possibility was fairly remote.

[DrKrettin]

OSIRIS-REx; Sounds like a Greek dinosaur to me, 

 

That's odd, because Osiris is Egyptian and Rex is Latin. Ironically, dinosaur is Greek   

[Deepwater6]

That's odd, because Osiris is Egyptian and Rex is Latin. Ironically, dinosaur is Greek   

 

Really? interesting, do you know how they go about selecting spacecraft names? I still prefer the names to numbers though, It's hard to keep track of new galaxies that are a string of numbers and letters rather than a simple moniker, such as the Sombrero galaxy, Understandable with the possibility of more galaxies being found a thousand years from now, new names could be in short supply at some point.

[DrKrettin]

Really? interesting, do you know how they go about selecting spacecraft names? 

 

I've no idea - there does not seem to be a pattern. Some, like Galileo, are rather obvious, others appear to be random.

[Deepwater6]

https://www.space.com/38502-bus-size-asteroid-2017-td6-earth-flyby.html

 

It's been busy out there for the last few month's. I think I saw a couple of others that came close lately, but I didn't have time to post them. It seems they are having more and more trouble seeing them until they are right on top of us or even by us, but in their defense these asteroids have been on the smaller side.

 

I guess it really doesn't matter too much. No country or agency on this planet has a viable defense plan against them that I know of anyway. So for now, I think the best they can hope for is to try and determine where one would make impact and evacuate that area.

[LaurieAG]

I just noticed that TIANGONG I now has a rentry time and date which is currently 143 days, 1 hour and 55 mins.

 

http://www.satview.org/

[Deepwater6]

Hi LG - That's a great sat. track site. Do you know why China couldn't integrate this into the new station they have or are in the process of building?