Large Asteroid 400-metre wide named 2005 YU55, To Pass Between Earth And Moon

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now there is this article about 2005 YU55 on SOTT:

The third near-earth asteroid of 2011 will pass between the moon and earth later this year, NASA has confirmed. The 400-metre wide asteroid, named 2005 YU55, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8, 2011.

Discovered December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson Arizona, the object is believed to be a very dark, nearly spherical object 400 meters in diameter.

According to NASA's Neart Earth Object Program: "Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type will not happen again until 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within 0.6 lunar distances."




Earlier this week, earth experienced one of its closest encounters with an asteroid in recent years. But as NASA indicated in the days ahead of Monday afternoon's 'cosmic close call', the encounter was so close that Earth's gravity sharply altered the asteroid's trajectory and prevented the space rock from impacting the planet.

2011MD, a newly discovered asteroid passed within 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) of Earth. The asteroid was only sighted for the first time on 22 June by a robotic telescope in New Mexico, USA. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts, USA, put out an alert Thursday.

It was daylight in the UK and Ireland (12.30 GMT) when the asteroid passed over the southern Atlantic Ocean, near the coast of Antarctica. The event was observable from South Africa and parts of Antarctica. It also was visible in the hours leading up to the closest approach across Australia, New Zealand, southern and eastern Asia, and the western Pacific.

Some media outlets proclaimed the asteroid to be as big as New York's Empire State Building'. In fact, 2011 MD measured about 16 feet to 35 feet.

According to Minor Planet Center's ranking charts 2011 MD's trip was the fifth-closest recorded Asteroid event. The last asteroid to impact earth was '2008 TC3' which was detected on 7 October 2008, just 19 hours before it burned up in the atmosphere over northern Sudan.

Earlier this month (2 June), a 10-metre wide asteroid passed between the earth and moon.

Asteroid 2009 BD, which was first observed on 16 January 2009 passed approximately within 0.9 lunar distances (the distance between Earth and the Moon) of earth. Astronomers believe the rock is a rare "co-orbital asteroid" which follows the orbit of the Earth, not receding more than 0.1 AU (15 million km) away.

Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, passed within the moon's distance of Earth, September 8 2010. In April 2010 an asteroid roughly as long as a tennis court zoomed past Earth at about the distance of the moon. The space rock to pass at or within lunar distance previous to this was 2009 JL2, an asteroid about 17 to 37 meters across, in May 2009.

There is a roughly 50 percent chance of a 30-meter-plus asteroid striking Earth each century, according to Clark Chapman, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/230916-Large-Asteroid-To-Pass-Between-Earth-And-Moon

also look at this youtube video called "Asteroid YU55 Close Approach Nov 8th, 2011":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bML29gjUAHA&feature=player_embedded#at=280

I mean thats pretty close to earth !
it's also interesting to see the flight path of 2005 YU55 and comet Elenin and the relation to earth ?
 
Yep, August through November of 2011 may be very interesting. Remember to collect data, watch, observe and do not anticipate...
 
After viewing the trajectory of YU55 on the JPL site it occurred to me that there would be the ability and interest to launch a probe to take a close look at this object. I then came across an article on Global Rumblings http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakingcomet-elenin-white-house-letter.html that suggested NASA may send a secret probe to nudge YU55 into a collision course with Earth and even change the speed so that they could control the specific location of impact.

I then went back to the orbital parameters page and looked again at the orbital relationship between the Earth and YU55. I appears to me that the most likely time to launch a vehicle to intercept YU55 would be between January 2011 and April 2011. I then went and looked up launch information from Vandenburg AFB and found that they launched a secret payload on a minotaur on 2/23/11 and then a NASA payload atop a Taurus in February.

The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally. And the opportunities for instituting more restrictive controls upon the global population through this cosmic 9/11 would seem to be pretty irresistible.

Capability and motivation are both there.
 
Snowalker said:
After viewing the trajectory of YU55 on the JPL site it occurred to me that there would be the ability and interest to launch a probe to take a close look at this object. I then came across an article on Global Rumblings http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakingcomet-elenin-white-house-letter.html that suggested NASA may send a secret probe to nudge YU55 into a collision course with Earth and even change the speed so that they could control the specific location of impact.

I then went back to the orbital parameters page and looked again at the orbital relationship between the Earth and YU55. I appears to me that the most likely time to launch a vehicle to intercept YU55 would be between January 2011 and April 2011. I then went and looked up launch information from Vandenburg AFB and found that they launched a secret payload on a minotaur on 2/23/11 and then a NASA payload atop a Taurus in February.

The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally. And the opportunities for instituting more restrictive controls upon the global population through this cosmic 9/11 would seem to be pretty irresistible.

Capability and motivation are both there.
Seems to me an attempted "controlled" entry of an asteroid would be pretty dicey-so many things could go horribly wrong-not that the PTB are above such reckless behaviour-witness the Gulf oil disaster- and collateral damage is acceptable as long as the primary objective is achieved-what matters a few million more or less NCPs (non-combatant participants-or non military targets)-however I am somewhat doubtful the tech exists to sucessfully "guide" such a projectile to target-at least not 3rd density tech-do you have something we could read that might shed more light on this?
 
tschai said:
Snowalker said:
After viewing the trajectory of YU55 on the JPL site it occurred to me that there would be the ability and interest to launch a probe to take a close look at this object. I then came across an article on Global Rumblings http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakingcomet-elenin-white-house-letter.html that suggested NASA may send a secret probe to nudge YU55 into a collision course with Earth and even change the speed so that they could control the specific location of impact.

I then went back to the orbital parameters page and looked again at the orbital relationship between the Earth and YU55. I appears to me that the most likely time to launch a vehicle to intercept YU55 would be between January 2011 and April 2011. I then went and looked up launch information from Vandenburg AFB and found that they launched a secret payload on a minotaur on 2/23/11 and then a NASA payload atop a Taurus in February.

The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally. And the opportunities for instituting more restrictive controls upon the global population through this cosmic 9/11 would seem to be pretty irresistible.

Capability and motivation are both there.
Seems to me an attempted "controlled" entry of an asteroid would be pretty dicey-so many things could go horribly wrong-not that the PTB are above such reckless behaviour-witness the Gulf oil disaster- and collateral damage is acceptable as long as the primary objective is achieved-what matters a few million more or less NCPs (non-combatant participants-or non military targets)-however I am somewhat doubtful the tech exists to sucessfully "guide" such a projectile to target-at least not 3rd density tech
I second that. I don't think the PTB are able to distract a Asteroid to hit a certain target , so many unpredictable things that could distract the Asteroid ...
 
The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally.

I think the general consensus is that the object causing the Tunguska blast was probably about a few tens of meters across, devastating an area of 830 square miles by a blast 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima.

By comparison YU55 would, if not reaching the ground, have an affect over 10 times greater, or destroying 8,300 square miles with explosive power of 10,000 atomic bombs! It seems to me that would yield significant global havoc.

I’m not an expert though.
 
I second that. I don't think the PTB are able to distract a Asteroid to hit a certain target , so many unpredictable things that could distract the Asteroid ...




This thread is really creeping me out and of course this is entirely subjective on my part,but I have stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon contemplating the Colorado River`s role in the whole thing and couldn`t come up with the river logically, having anything to do with it.

I asked myself why the Missouri or the Mississippi or even the Connecticut rivers haven`t done the same thing and I couldn`t come up with a good answer.

All I could do was look up!

Sometime later, I began having dreams of an ancient conflict between what I reasoned were the little people, these being somewhat like what I consider the ancient Anasazi or Pueblo people to have been like, very small.

The fight was with a kind of "dark priests" and these dark priests did in fact have the ability to fling comets, meteors etc, onto the earth wiping out entire civilizations.

Which is what they were doing in the dreams.

Then to make this even weirder, in the dream we had the information from somewhere, that we were not to go underground but to go to the caves high in the mountains because one the meteors or whatever that had hit far away, had caused a huge crack in the surface of the earth and an entire ocean was pouring down into this huge crevice and filling up the empty spaces below the earths crust and earthquakes were causing water to emerge in deserts, forming tsunami where there had been no raging waters previous and old underground springs were becoming new lakes areas etc.

The whole earth was in chaos because of this "war" being waged on the little peoples.

And yes of course I know this was only a dream, but later when I began to learn more about 4D technologies, Sts.V.Sto, and even that the Atlanteans had been to Mars..I had to wonder was this just a dream, or some past life memory emerging in these dreams?

Either way, just thinking about this again totally freaks me out, and I really can`t help feeling that it "has all happened" before!
 
tschai said:
Snowalker said:
After viewing the trajectory of YU55 on the JPL site it occurred to me that there would be the ability and interest to launch a probe to take a close look at this object. I then came across an article on Global Rumblings http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakingcomet-elenin-white-house-letter.html that suggested NASA may send a secret probe to nudge YU55 into a collision course with Earth and even change the speed so that they could control the specific location of impact.

I then went back to the orbital parameters page and looked again at the orbital relationship between the Earth and YU55. I appears to me that the most likely time to launch a vehicle to intercept YU55 would be between January 2011 and April 2011. I then went and looked up launch information from Vandenburg AFB and found that they launched a secret payload on a minotaur on 2/23/11 and then a NASA payload atop a Taurus in February.

The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally. And the opportunities for instituting more restrictive controls upon the global population through this cosmic 9/11 would seem to be pretty irresistible.

Capability and motivation are both there.
Seems to me an attempted "controlled" entry of an asteroid would be pretty dicey-so many things could go horribly wrong-not that the PTB are above such reckless behaviour-witness the Gulf oil disaster- and collateral damage is acceptable as long as the primary objective is achieved-what matters a few million more or less NCPs (non-combatant participants-or non military targets)-however I am somewhat doubtful the tech exists to sucessfully "guide" such a projectile to target-at least not 3rd density tech-do you have something we could read that might shed more light on this?

I agree that to achieve this concept successfully would require a serious commitment from the PTB but I have little doubt that the technology and expertise are available. Again it comes down to the desire to bring the necessary resources to bear on the problem.

The outcome of this when does correctly would be an unimaginable boon to those trying to consolidate power. So the motivation is going to be very high. What I am trying to do now is log the launches out of Vandenburg during the optimal window for rendezvousing with YU55. That will get me payload weight and description from the public launches. Any classified launch will be considered a candidate with size being a secondary refinement.

What I could use is information from knowledgeable folks on what a mission like this would require in order to narrow down the weight requirements for launch and some guesstimates on the launch window.
 
Jerry said:
The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally.

I think the general consensus is that the object causing the Tunguska blast was probably about a few tens of meters across, devastating an area of 830 square miles by a blast 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima.

By comparison YU55 would, if not reaching the ground, have an affect over 10 times greater, or destroying 8,300 square miles with explosive power of 10,000 atomic bombs! It seems to me that would yield significant global havoc.

I’m not an expert though.

I ran this size asteroid through the Down 2 Earth simulator (simulator.down2earth.eu) using a porus rock composition and a 90 degree angle and got different results. The blast radius was within 500 km. The resulting crater was about 1 km in diameter. This would be an absolutely devestating event for a large city and most likely for an entire country and general economic area but it would not be global. At least not from an immediate physical standpoint IMO.
 
Snowalker said:
Jerry said:
The size of YU55 at 400 meters makes it a good candidate for taking out a country like Iran (or certainly Tehran) without wreaking too much havoc globally.

I think the general consensus is that the object causing the Tunguska blast was probably about a few tens of meters across, devastating an area of 830 square miles by a blast 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima.

By comparison YU55 would, if not reaching the ground, have an affect over 10 times greater, or destroying 8,300 square miles with explosive power of 10,000 atomic bombs! It seems to me that would yield significant global havoc.

I’m not an expert though.

I ran this size asteroid through the Down 2 Earth simulator (simulator.down2earth.eu) using a porus rock composition and a 90 degree angle and got different results. The blast radius was within 500 km. The resulting crater was about 1 km in diameter. This would be an absolutely devestating event for a large city and most likely for an entire country and general economic area but it would not be global. At least not from an immediate physical standpoint IMO.

I don't think you can trust this website for a good calculation of a possible hit...
 
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