2017 DR34 Asteroid

Pic from nemesis maturity: What is going on?

From nemesis maturity: on Feb 24, 2017

A newly discovered asteroid named 2017 DR34 will make a very close approach to Earth, passing only 0.57 LD (Lunar Distance) 218,880 km / 136,005 miles from the surface of our planet on February 25, 2017. 

This is the second near-Earth asteroid to fly by within 1 lunar distance since February 23, and the sixth since January 9, 2017.

Asteroid 2017 DR34 has an estimated diameter between 4 and 9 m and it belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids.  It will make its closest approach to our planet at 04:52 UTC on February 25 and flyby at a speed (relative to the Earth @ 67,000 mph - 29.97 km\s) of 11.41 km/s. (25523.443092341 mph)

The Watchers

This is the sixth asteroid passing in less than 1 LD since January 9.  Are we passing through a swarm of asteroids?  I just wonder what is really going on.

nemesis maturity



Incoming!

Another good reason to be tracking those Meteor sites. (open all the tabs!)

"Heads up, be safe", as heard from BPEarthWatch

meteorscan 

livemeteors

 

Are You Serious?

Pastor Paul Begley, is a pastor from Indiana that gives you current events and how they relate to the Bible.  More asteroids noted by Pastor Begley. 

Asteroid 2017 CP1 

Incoming!  "are you serious?"  Pastor Begley has a commentary on even more near miss asteroids like 2017 CP1.

Paul Begley

 

Meteors Incoming!

The last few days I've been monitoring meteor detection sites and tonight the incoming action has been off the charts!  Between the two sites, I'm mentioning here you can track the activity at Meteorscan from Europe, Lockyer Technology Centre, a volunteer group with facilities at the Norman Lockyer Observatory (NLO) in England.

The next site is Live meteor echoes at LIVEMETEORS, located in DC Metropolitan area and is currently pointing the Yagi antenna at a TV tower in Canada.  Site offers both visual and sound.

What's cool about this is the two sites opened on your PC (long live the PC) you have a visual open on one tab and monitoring echo sound a ping audio in the other tab coming over the speakers!  With tonight's show, I felt a bunker would be a good investment!  At one point there were over 120 per hour between the two sites, I had to keep track of the pings and the clock from the echo site but at Meteorscan they list the detections per hour.  So with both sites running, you have a look over Europe and Northern America, that's a good chunk of sky.  These two sites will even detect space junk that's reentering the atmosphere. 

No meteor showers were predicted tonight!  The next meteor event Lyrid, isn't scheduled until April 22nd.  Heads up and be safe everyone, these two meteor sites are featured in the Science Tab, here at Globe Backyard, just click on the photos there.

Update 2/16/17

Once again we're picking up detection of one meteor per minute from Europe and North America.  Usually viewing these sites its like watching paint dry!

Incoming!

Make an explosive entry into Earth’s atmosphere in this stereoscopic 360° video of the Chelyabinsk meteor’s arrival in February 2013, an immersive scene from the new planetarium show, “Incoming!”

For decades, the team has detected explosive airbursts caused by meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere.  The most powerful one took place on February 15, 2013, over the Russian city Chelyabinsk, and we have reconstructed that event using observational data.  A stony meteor almost 20 meters in diameter (slightly smaller than Morrison Planetarium) exploded in the upper atmosphere, leaving behind a trail of dust and debris that stretched more than a hundred kilometers. The explosion also created a burst of light brighter than the Sun and a shockwave that shattered windows and damaged buildings in places we highlight in the video.  Nearly 1,500 people sought medical attention in the days after the blast, mostly for injuries from shattered glass.  At the end of the video, they compare the size of the affected region to the area of metropolitan New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and greater Tokyo.

California Academy of Sciences