I've been to MeteorCrater twice now; once when very young(like ten years) and then a few years ago at 35 or so; it's one of the great things you can do! Me and my sister also went to a cave next to the Grand Canyon(Arizona rocks like this); we were like, "where's all the stone spikes coming from the ceiling?" The guy said, oh, about fifty thousand years ago, an asteroid hit nearby causing all those things to fall and shatter all over the floor.
@IstasPumaNevada11 жыл бұрын
They never said in the video that you could see this asteroid with the human eye. They said the brightness would be easy to detect with even modest telescopes, but that its speed would make it difficult to find/track.
@krumplethemal883110 жыл бұрын
Yesterday march 21st 2014 we just had another huge near miss. This one came within the earth and the moon. We are seeing a lot of these really close fly bys lately. Or either we are getting better at spotting them or there is an unusual amount of close fly bys.
@MichaelGoforthMiguelLeo11 жыл бұрын
for a general audience, which this site is, use both metric and US units (miles, feet, inches and more)
@computerdude6511 жыл бұрын
"This will Defiantly not hit Earth…” .. “The chances of it hitting earth are extremely remote” xD
@GearheadOutlaw11 жыл бұрын
Interesting stuff you guys share... Was always fascinated about space and your channel is really fantastic. Keep up the good work
@oker5911 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing a video that took a lot of data(probably radar) of asteroids passing by the Earth; the video showed asteroids coming from every angle; we're litteraly in a shooting gallery.
@alain19644u11 жыл бұрын
I can't wait till Coco-Cola uses one of these asteriods as a billboard
@SapaHollidaySaparonia11 жыл бұрын
Is it the same football field that was used to measure Comet Lovejoy? If so that explains how it has shrunk from 58m to less than 50
@FreeGamesMAX11 жыл бұрын
"The chances of it hitting a SATELLITE(!!) are extremely remote,"
@ledude11411 жыл бұрын
K=1/2mv^2. By solving this simple equation, which is 2.38488e+17*1/2=1/2 m (1.3e+8kg given this site:neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2012da14)*v^2, the resulting speed is 4.3e+4 m/s. Considering the speed of the asteroid, which is 6.15km/s or 6.15e+3m/s, and solving the resulting composants (explosion speed in x and asteroid speed in y), we get an added angle of trajectory of 82 degrees. In fact, other factors are to be considered for a precise answer, but it is still obvious you're wrong.
@pheniks011 жыл бұрын
1. its likely to be made of stone = no pulling 2. (if it were iron) thats like shooting a bullet past a magnet and thinking the magnet will pull it towards it, its most likely to change its trajectory and maybe in a couple of years theres a chance of impact (so, lots of time to prepare), but not this time my friend, no worries
@ledude11411 жыл бұрын
You're right about the blast (Didn't put my mind into the fact that there's no "blast" effect in vaccuum, which is the real use of a thermonuclear weapon). H bombs half the size of Tsar Bomba are somewhat "easy" to find or more to make. Oh and I agree with you, no H-bomb ever made could "vaporize" a 130 000 tons chunk of rock in vaccuum. Reflecting the radiations with a paraboloidal mirror would be the same as simply trying to "boil" it... useless. Anyway thanks, you put me on the right track,
@bradforschner11 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward to working with the radar on this assignment!
@FreeGamesMAX11 жыл бұрын
And it was the same picture too!
@Medusafern11 жыл бұрын
I read this morning that DA 14's closest proximity to us has been newly estimated at 14,000 miles rather than 17,200. A few thousand feet closer, cool. I wonder if it will induce seismic activity.
@MrBlueSkyMrNight11 жыл бұрын
According to NASA: "So far, the Spaceguard effort has found and is tracking more than 5,200 near-Earth asteroids 330 feet or larger, leaving more than an estimated 15,000 still to discover. In addition, scientists estimate there are more than a million unknown smaller near-Earth asteroids that could cause damage if they were to impact Earth."
@564Zombies11 жыл бұрын
Actually most of the water came from the late heavy bombardment when Jupiter and Saturn went into a 2-1 resonance causing Neptune and Uranus to switch places and causing there orbits to expand out thus there gravity started to effect the Kuiper Belt. Tens of thousands of comets with water on them were flung into the inner solar system. And they were quite large.
@raymondjordan968210 жыл бұрын
How do asteroids from the asteroid belt get jiggled lose from their orbits and become a possible lethal missile? One would think that they have been there a long time and any collision between individuals would have occurred a long time ago.
@QUICKIRONS11 жыл бұрын
What she neglected to mention was the margin for error which is the same as their distance to Earth prediction. Who knows what will happen to the asteroids trijectory if it collides with 22,000 pieces of space junk. It doesn't take much to reset the course of a space object.
@TheFilamom3011 жыл бұрын
Why isn't this vid about asteroid quake as described on t/NASA app?
@CFB685511 жыл бұрын
What a great opportunity to study an asteroid. I wish we were able to capture it, but we will capture the one in 2022.
@dalriada84211 жыл бұрын
That could just as easily describe an erupting volcano, with lava flowing into the sea.
@Saukko3111 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the awesome video!
@ledude11411 жыл бұрын
So we take the Tsar Bomba, which is about 57MT of TNT. Which is 5.7e+4 kT of TNT, which is 2.38488e+17 J. If we consider that the detonation is close to the asteroid, then about half of the det. energy will transfer to the asteroid (considering that a blast is spherical and the detonation point is flat). Without considering rock fragmentation, the explosion's energy will transfer into kinetic energy. Then, (following in another comment)
@BillPetersonShempp11 жыл бұрын
Seriously? For a very nominal fee professional voice-overs can (and do) make what is currently a dull and lack luster read something that actually prevent people from muting their audio. Especially one as significant as this one. Honestly, one has to admit that the person who did this read, though intentions may have been the purest, is a great cure for insomnia... something that NASA has always done though the years.
@GRosa11 жыл бұрын
Never heard of geologic faults as the source of that event. Any references to support your "probably"?
@IstasPumaNevada11 жыл бұрын
How do you get that number? 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, and an object of that size would only produce in the area of 6 megatons of energy upon collision with the earth; a significant amount of energy, but it wouldn't even produce a gust of wind at tropical storm force 50km/30 miles out. That's an area one half, of one thousandth, of one percent of the Earth's surface area.
@xjunkxyrdxdog8911 жыл бұрын
Thunder1soldier if it hit water it would explode on impact, but cause no damage. If it hit land it would explode/burrow into the earth creating a crater.
@limitlessenergy36911 жыл бұрын
Asteroid exploded before it hit yet researchers are still studying the clues to the impact. So which was it, an impact, or exploded in atmosphere? My guess? They still think it might have been Tesla.
@MrRaschke9211 жыл бұрын
I was both excited and entertained at the same time.
@Zlatnikmk11 жыл бұрын
I don't know why my post (from yesterday) was removed? Did I said something wrong or bed? Or, according to the rules of (your) democracy, I haven't right to ask such a questions? In this case I just had only three simple questions? 1. Is there a new measure units for size - a football field? 2. To which football field they are talking about - American's or European's? 3. Why Americans still used different units than those from SI System? I hope that you'll be more correct now!
@ely1camb11 жыл бұрын
shame they couldn't of attach some thing to the rock and let it keep floating on :)
@Dendynugrohoo11 жыл бұрын
hang on 2012 DA14? > Ison?
@Apollo101111 жыл бұрын
The narrator has a lovely voice.
@NiallBradley11 жыл бұрын
You guys at NASA have not got a clue what is going on out there, do you? The 'closest fly-by ever' and just 12 hours beforehand you're totally blindsided by 'the impossible'.
@luckyguy2345111 жыл бұрын
thanks for your video
@mjb007201211 жыл бұрын
Arizona crater is only 4500 years old. It was a pre civilization nuke from the early nuke wars, see the India Vedas writings.
@Lorensbrow11 жыл бұрын
Thtas what she siad!
@SapaHollidaySaparonia11 жыл бұрын
They say it was a meteorite travelling N to S and DN14 is travelling W to E so not related. Must be one of those synchronous events that the universe runs on
@TheStockwell11 жыл бұрын
Nope. Just you. I saw it in the KZbin video, "Asteroid 2012 DA14 is coming for 6163karen; somebody tell her, okay?"
@robertghouston11 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering if Jupiter, for example, could potentially alter the asteroid's path.
@1MuchButteR111 жыл бұрын
The percent that an asteroid would hit a civilian area is around 22%
@Hakaze11 жыл бұрын
Please use the metric system when describing science.
@serijoscha11 жыл бұрын
Thx for presentation
@chyta011 жыл бұрын
If an asteroid hits earth, the energy which is being released by the impact totally melts and cracks the asteroid to pieces. Just imagine how much energy there has to be if you ride a car with a speed of 20.000 km/h and block its movement to 0km/h in a split second. the damage on your car would be unimaginable. just the same with ur asteroid :p
@watifistickmycokinit11 жыл бұрын
How did it manage to miss New York, I thought everything from space made a bee line for the big apple??
@johnnyjoevazquez11 жыл бұрын
There are 26000 objects in known earth orbit I'm sure are at least one or two are in the path right?
@XaHyMaH11 жыл бұрын
It seems today one of it's satellites exploded over Chelyabinsk. No casualties but many people were hit by shockwave and glass debris from broken windows.
@avanakeks532811 жыл бұрын
not so bad. ~thousand of injured people, >35mil dollars damage to the buildings.. Little shock) That meteor was about 15 meters in diameter, 7000 tonne weight.The speed was 18 km/s, explosion happens at 20 km high and it was around 300.000 tonnes of TNT power of the explosion (as NASA said). Background radiation in normal
@belkacemedjek53811 жыл бұрын
thenks very much
@CNHubNicktoons11 жыл бұрын
Well I think you just missed the meteor of the centery it passed Earth 20 minutes ago. :3
@1GTX111 жыл бұрын
Even NASA admited that mass of that meteor was around 10 000 tons
11 жыл бұрын
Bruce Willis was there :-) No, seriously - it was small asteroid too, but it fell down on Russia just coincidently in the same day like the closest approach of ateroid 2012 DA14...
@LanceWinslow11 жыл бұрын
You know, I really like these videos.
@MrTrigger2211 жыл бұрын
So they can do interviews live with the ISS but cant give some pics of the flyby?!
@zyfigamer11 жыл бұрын
Beginning: "Talk about a close shave." -.- ... End: "That really was a close shave." *face palm* At least I have more appreciation now for MY crappy writing skills.
@Mandoflash11 жыл бұрын
an annoying little pebble. I love the thinly veiled threatening tone of the voiceover.
@digitalsketchguy11 жыл бұрын
If they can calculate it's closest distance, they haven't revealed where it would hit, should they get their calculations wrong. And if it was going to impact, would they really tell us? You would only know by the deployment of troops and emergency personnel and erratic trading behaviour. Thanks for the Disneyesque video!
@cellofingers11 жыл бұрын
I'd rather it take out some satellites than hit Earth. A 50 mile blast zone today is fairly serious.
@pheniks011 жыл бұрын
this also aplies to the gravitational force its will change its trajectory, but not pull it to the earth
@arnoldshyrokova-vinette225411 жыл бұрын
Well done.
@iustinianpascal604911 жыл бұрын
how an asteroid with 150 feet large can have seismic activity ?
@TheNamesJT11 жыл бұрын
I looking forward to comet ISON that's going to be amazing!! that's only if it doesn't disintegrate when it approaches the sun
@secreto20911 жыл бұрын
Even if Asteroid 2012 DA14 was on a collision course with Earth, you wouldn't be told. It'd cause mass panic, but it's not so :D
@thegermanprostitute11 жыл бұрын
What about the one that's got us in it's sights?
@pheniks011 жыл бұрын
imo it will, if this little planet in the orbital diagram is as the earth is located in real life (north is upwards), from around 18.00 - 21.00 (utc) to where it is, i have no idea :P (yet)
@TheIbb100011 жыл бұрын
good film, thank you
@elgringo374311 жыл бұрын
Look for this: Meteorite crater in Chelyabinsk - Кратер от метеорита в Челябинске
@TomoHawKzZ11 жыл бұрын
A meteorite, totally unrelated to DA14 and a third it's size, exploded in the stratosphere above Russia injuring around a thousand people as well as shattering windows and tripping car alarms for miles.
@todorinskiz11 жыл бұрын
depending about which football are you talking about ;)
@AutoPsychotic11 жыл бұрын
Oh yay, it's story time with the kindergarten teacher again.
@MaryJanis11 жыл бұрын
What constellations is it coming through?
@Zlatnikmk11 жыл бұрын
Is there any new measure unit for size - football field? For which football field it is concerned? For American's or European's football (soccer) field? Why Americans still used different units than those from SI System?
@BallazErving11 жыл бұрын
Since it was spotted in December 14?? this should of been an effect to the worlds going to end on December 21st like an advertisement (o.O)Y
@SapaHollidaySaparonia11 жыл бұрын
earth to DA14 dustance is now 0.0011 on 16th Feb on orbit diagram is this closer than previously estimated?
@SapaHollidaySaparonia11 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of junk floating up there - "almost" no chance it will bump into any of it :)
@mikeisamovie11 жыл бұрын
...yeah, but: what ARE the odds of it hitting the earth, and where would the trajectory place it? and please use the metric system when describing science. make us think a little...
@tototorak11 жыл бұрын
MEDIA , MEDIA, WE WERE PEACFUL WITHOUT LATEST MEDIA.
@ActionFarter11 жыл бұрын
Im just wondering, if the egg heads over there in Nasa actually seen this coming and said nothing? I mean there are satellites that can Zoom down onto a fly.
@8BoWZer811 жыл бұрын
They've none about it since February last year, I don't see what your getting at...
@charmianberry11 жыл бұрын
why would NASA want to waste money doing that?
@goingfortheone111 жыл бұрын
Scientists constantly revise what they say based on new unearthed evidence. It is a sign of credibility, not the other way around. A more suspect person is someone who never changes what they say no matter what.
@cellofingers11 жыл бұрын
Did she say Feb 13th?
@elgringo374311 жыл бұрын
Meteorite crater in Chelyabinsk - Кратер от метеорита в Челябинске
@undercover22711 жыл бұрын
wait so you can see it already?
@nidhinr272111 жыл бұрын
People are simply spreading rumors and creating panic
@Lovestorock7311 жыл бұрын
any links to the path of the asteroid?
@olafreinhardweyer11 жыл бұрын
There is a panic, there is a panic, people prepare! there is panic!!!! :D
@toonygabe12311 жыл бұрын
February 15? that's my birthday! It's either nature's present to me.. or a natural upcoming desaster.
@Riotboy111 жыл бұрын
Love her voice.
@MegaShane55511 жыл бұрын
just asking; what will happen if the asteroid hits earth?
@radiomanolis11 жыл бұрын
Will we be able to see it...????
@Izzatmashoori11 жыл бұрын
finally torres scored!!!!
@AoM79811 жыл бұрын
Разве этот астероид не связан с происшествием в Челябинске?
@leucippe11 жыл бұрын
I hope that we can see it from Aix en Provence....
@MAKEITGROW7211 жыл бұрын
Okay.. let's say it's come, so is there some recent photos and if it does attack the Earth" so WHERE IS the impact zone!? Thx
@SeanKimStyle11 жыл бұрын
I understand that this isn't going to hit the earth. But will our earth's gravitational pull get messed up or will it pull the asteroid closer to earth so the next time when it goes around again?
@w0jwjohn68011 жыл бұрын
What is the frequency of the ping?
@raphaelduprat11 жыл бұрын
football field?? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!