[AR] Re: u-oh ! return of Phaeton

  • From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:44:02 -0700

It's been calculated out to 400 years I think we are pretty safe from
that one.

Monroe

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AR] Re: u-oh ! return of Phaeton
From: William Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, December 16, 2017 4:29 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


None.  It isn’t going to hit.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 4:14 PM John Dom <johndom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Size 5 km dia. asteroid rock zipped by today at a distance of about 10
times the distance of the Moon if I got that right.

Damage to be expected with impact, anybody? Calculation of  impact energy
(angular, mass and velocity data): astronomers should know.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3200_Phaethon



John





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