Live Tracking Asteroid D14 As It Misses The Earth By 17,500 Miles At 2:25pm Eastern
Update: it missed.
It is only fitting that in the aftermath of the earlier meteor explosion above the Russian Urals, that the world's attention next shifts to yet another historic celestial event, this time of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which will make a historic flyby of the planet, missing Earth by some 17,500 miles. According to scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs, the asteroid, which is 150 feet in size, an object of this size makes a close approach like this every 40 years. The likelihood of a strike is every 1,200 years. Of course, the neo Keynesian among us would wish the latter number was much smaller: just think of the untapped GDP potential that would result from the epic destruction. And while a direct impact would not lead to any mass extinctions as was the case 65 million years ago, when the earth was hit by a meteor 6 miles across, this rock could still do immense damage if it struck given its 143,000-ton heft, releasing 2.4 megatons of energy and wiping out 750 square miles. The closest approach will take place at 2:25 pm Eastern, and NASA will be covering the event live below.
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.
At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 2:25 p.m. EST (11:25 a.m. PST/ 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about noon EST (9 a.m. PST) and continuing through the afternoon at the following website:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc
The NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington, manages and funds the search, study, and monitoring of NEOs, or asteroids and comets, whose orbits periodically bring them close to the Earth. NASA's study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system. The objects also are a repository of natural resources and could become waystations for future exploration. In collaboration with other external organizations, one of the program's key goals is to search and hopefully mitigate potential NEO impacts on Earth. JPL conducts the NEO program's technical and scientific activities.
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asteroid is going to miss us? thats great news, that should be good for 200 dow pts and 50 s&p pts.
Can we just duct tape our central bankers to it as it goes by?
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Too late <3
Darn !
It is not an attack. It is a pick up.
After destroying the capital markets, Barney Frank has transmogrified back into his brain bug form and is going to hitch a ride home to Klendathu!
I'm really hoping that's not what I think it is.
"Update: it missed."
Bullish.
OMFG somebody delete that brainbug picture please, I'll nevr be the same again.
Just use your imagination and make believe you see some whipped cream on it. Much better, huh?
I've looked at that picture for far too long and still can't figure out exactly what it is, is it just a photoshop masterpiece or really a human being?
Special Report Live:
A human was sighted on D14. The person is described as a man in a suit with a beard. Also he was seen from the telescope throwing dollars from his money sack across the universe. If you listen closely the man was yelling, "FUCK helicopters! I have me a fucking comet! Wealth for all!"
Nature fires a warning shot across our bow and what, nobody even flinches.
We're doomed!
The Russian Meteorite and the Wormwood Connection:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-russian-meteorite-wormw...
Fscking Kangaroos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs
Exactly. Now back to our regularly scheduled demolition of sovereign nations in the name of democracy.
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Everything else that misses is bullish.
It's ALL bullish fuu... [I learned that from u]... By consequence ~ I have achieved TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS,,, & I have you to thank for that...
wtf have I done?
Horseman, does Barney Frank and the word Brain belong in the same sentence? Just sayin', that is the nastiest picture I have ever seen. I have to go take a shower now lol.
Good grief.
What...The...Fuck...
Becky put your mask back on.
Throw flour on it and aim for the wet spot.
lol.
If Jabba the Hut and a Gamorrean Guard had a kid - it would like that.
Roll that kid around with a stick.
CPL you reside in Canada and are working in the engineering sector correct?
that's no regular brainbug... that's Behemecoatyl, oh brain of brains!
Ummm, Whiteshadowmovement.. Hedgeless horseman sees your man fucking a turkey and raises you a huge ass with teeth.
Is there a cream for this?
Smegma
Its like the hamburger helper hand took on crack - meth and became a Mentat.
It is by will alone...
...It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
God damn it, Herbert was a fine writer.
Decapitated banksters?
No amount of your dinner plate photos can make up for this...
What about the Italian bride of a French politician?
That works!
"Those aren't pillows"!
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Thats Napolitano's ass right?
Sorry, I left my webcam running while doing crunches.
Too fuckin late, I think the Earth has already been financially decimated by the asteroid Qe1234, sent from the planet B3rnank.
(in reference to the bug planet Klendathu in Starship Troopers)
hh, Couldnt believe after I posted my message, we had the same idea. That Brain bug surely reminds me of the Bernank.
And dear Jesus, if you just deign to let it hit at 38.53.34.84 N 77.02.44.72 W, I promise to never watch another porno flick as long as I live
Can somebody please hit the stock market with an asteroid?!
I want to be careful and preface this as hearsay, but there is a rumor that Krugman has built a shrine to Asteroid D14 in his Princeton office, complete with candles, incense, pagan throw rugs & sculptures of Shiva, destroyer of all worlds, that he's given his students the day off, and that he is "holed up" in his locked office, on bended knee, in a hallucinogenic-induced stupor (psilocybin fungi), praying for a highly stimulative event.
Krugman is praying for a "highly stimulative event?"
Most likely QE 6 and 7.
...and with plenty of lube
I meant Siva and not Shiva, above.
Sorry, Siva. Sorry everyone.
It missed?
That must be why FIRE/EMS are on scene trying to extricate Krugman from his office that he's torched.
What a guy! Think of all the growth Krugman has spurred as his office is remodeled. Thousands of man hours of skilled laborers and carpenters; the purchase of office furniture; importing Brazilian mahogany produced by poor laborers in the Amazon; the shipping and freight costs involved...