Don’t Forget To Duck!
– – A bus-sized asteroid with the catchy name of 2011 MD will pass within about 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday, June 27th…a near-miss in astronomical terms. An object of this size can be expected to come this close to Earth about every six years or so on average.
Asteroid 2011 MD will be visible in moderately-large amateur telescopes, measuring 9 to 30 meters wide with the best guess about 10 meters. There is no chance that the asteroid will impact with the earth, and even if it entered the atmosphere it wouldn’t likely reach the Earth’s surface…no planet-killer, this. After making its closest pass at Earth, the asteroid will zoom through the zone of geosynchronous satellites, but is also extremely unlikely to hit any space junk…unless Lone Star and Barf are out there in their space Winnebago, seeking Princess Vespa!
Tags: asteroid, Asteroid 2011 MD, near earth object
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FOXSYLVANIA 
June 27, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I wonder how long it will be before Syfy Channel churns out a low-budget TV disaster-movie for their next “Saturday night original” (based on this)?
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June 27, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Some of those Syfy movies are so wonderfully bad that I watch them for all of the wrong reasons!
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