Meteor passing earth tonight

[leeby 10]

Is it right what I've just seen on the news.. a meteor heading for earth 15 metres long missing earth by 17000 mile and the suns abit upset throwing some kind of storm and sending some kind of wave to earth knocking all the satellite's down ect..nasa say its the closest one were getting from many decades... kimd of scary if you ask me..

[geared 301]

15 meters? Thats tiny in asteroid terms.

 

Are you sure it's not 15 miles or kilometres across?

[pecsaetan 10]

Must be a slow news day.

[Riannon 10]

Is it right what I've just seen on the news.. a meteor heading for earth 15 metres long missing earth by 17000 mile and the suns abit upset throwing some kind of storm and sending some kind of wave to earth knocking all the satellite's down ect..nasa say its the closest one were getting from many decades... kimd of scary if you ask me..

 

Not much to be scared about if it's passing by 17000 miles away. It's the ones that hit us you need to worry about.

[leeby 10]

May be wrong in the measurement but it was on the news

[pecsaetan 10]

Not much to be scared about if it's passing by 17000 miles away. It's the ones that hit us you need to worry about.

 

Exactly.

 

Absolute pointless story, nothing more than scare mongering of the "what if" type.

[quisquose 10]

45 metres wide. Look towards The Plough at about 21:30 on 15th February.

 

http://www.activeastronomy.org/your-guide-to-tonight-s-sky/asteroid

Edited February 7, 2013 by quisquose
added link

[speleo1 10]

http://rt.com/news/paint-asteroid-earth-nasa-767/

[leeby 10]

15 metres though..wouldn't that do some big damaged to us all?

[Rampent 10]

Not much to be scared about if it's passing by 17000 miles away. It's the ones that hit us you need to worry about.

 

Most land on Eskimos - they don't count.

[best sheff 10]

I blame the Government, for these meteors' tonight.

[leeby 10]

Blimey 45 metre...crikey