On Oct. 12, 2017, the asteroid 2012 TC4 is slated to whizz by Earth dangerously close. The exact distance of its closest approach is uncertain, as well as its size. Based on observations in October 2012 when the space rock missed our planet, astronomers estimate that its size could vary from 12 to 40 meters. The meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013, injuring 1,500 people and damaging over 7,000 buildings, was about 20 meters wide. Thus, the impact of 2012 TC4 could be even more devastating. “It is something to keep an eye on,” Judit Györgyey-Ries, astronomer at the University of Texas’ McDonald Observatory, told astrowatch.net. “We could see an airburst maybe broken windows, depending on where it hits.”
The house-sized asteroid was discovered on Oct. 4, 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. Week later, it gave Earth a close shave when it passed the planet at the distance of 0.247 LD (lunar distance), or 94,800 km. 2012 TC4 is an elongated and rapidly rotating object and has been known to make many close approaches to Earth in the past. Now, the scientists try to determine the exact path of 2017 fly-by and the probability of a possible impact.
“It has a 0.00055% cumulative chance that it will hit later, between 2020 and 2026,” Györgyey-Ries said. “The fact that the MOID [minimum orbit intersection distance] is only 0.079 LD flags it as a possible impactor. However it is just the smallest possible distance between the orbits, it does not mean the bodies are at that location at the same time.”
“There is one in a million chance that it could hit us,” Detlef Koschny, head of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Segment in the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme office at ESA, told astrowatch.net. He also tried to estimate the exact size of the celestial body. “The size was estimated from the brightness, but we don't know the reflectivity. So it could be smaller or larger, assume from 10 m to 40 m. A 40 m iron object would go through the atmosphere and make a crater; a 10 m rocky object would be hardly noticed.”
Makoto Yoshikawa of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), member of NEOs Division at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is convinced that the asteroid poses no danger to Earth. “The distance is very small. But this distance does not mean the collision,” he said.
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Asteroid 2012 TC4 as seen by the Remanzacco Observatory team of Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero, Nick Howes on Oct. 9, 2012. |
NASA’s Asteroid Watch has assured there is no chance this asteroid will hit our planet, but Györgyey-Ries admits more observations are needed to mitigate the uncertainties.
“Although it has a large uncertainty along the orbit, it is much less than the radial uncertainty, so it just changes the time of the closest flyby. I would say based on this, that there is no chance of impact in 2017, but more observations could help to reduce the uncertainties,” she said.
Koschny is also aware of the incertitude. Speaking of the asteroid’s size and orbital characteristics, he indicated that “certain items have large uncertainties, in particular the size.” He noted that if it’s a rocky asteroid and if it hit, the effects would be similar to the Chelyabinsk impact.
As of Apr. 12, 2015, there are 1572 potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA) detected. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
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ReplyDeleteUn Géocroiseur de petite taille va passer à proximité de la Terre à une distance de 44.000 km le jeudi 12 octobre 2017 soit dans peu de temps, il est sans danger au vu de sa longueur (10 à 30 mètres), de son hypothétique masse et de sa composition chimique, nous ne savons pas encore si il composé de roche ou de minerai de fer. Faute de renseignement, je ne suis pas en mesure de vous donner la masse M de l’Astéroïde et la vitesse relative Vr du Géocroiseur. Si ce géocroiseur avait percuté la Terre, quelles en auraient été les conséquences ? L’Energie cinétique du Géocroiseur = 1/2MVr² aurait été convertie en une explosion sur Terre de plusieurs MégaTonnes de TNT. Je vais faire des recherches sur la Toile pour connaître la masse M et la vitesse relative Vr du Géocroiseur. Nous pouvons dormir sur nos 2 oreilles, car cet Astéroïde refrôlera la Terre que dans plusieurs centaines d’années. La NASA a suivi 2012 TC4 dans sa trajectoire et doit connaître les 3 paramètres physiques fondamentaux qui nous intéressent au plus haut point :
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Suite dans une rubrique L'ASTEROIDE 2012 TC4 VA FROLER LA TERRE LE JEUDI 12 OCTOBRE 2017 où j’indiquerai la Masse M et la Vitesse Vr et où je ferai le calcul de la puissance de l’hypothétique impact avec notre planète.
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Yes, centuries ago, before modern science was established, many societies believed astronomical events were caused by their diety. NOW we know these events have nothing to do with anyone's diety. In case you just crawled out of a cave, our solar system has 2 asteroid belts that are populated by billions of space rocks. Forces of physics act on them. It's called gravity. All planets and our sun can affect their trajectory. The bigger the planet, and sun, the greater the affect. From NASA article April 5, 2016, "Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of the giant planets in our solar system into orbits that allow them to enter Earth's neighborhood." We know this now, it is a scientifically proven fact. Diety not required.
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