{"id":1479,"date":"2011-06-26T18:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T08:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2011-08-30T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:56:12","slug":"new-comet-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/06\/new-comet-asteroid-1479.html","title":{"rendered":"New Comet, New Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comet was discovered by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope which scans areas of the sky for dangerous asteroids. It is early days, but they estimate that:<\/p>\n

The comet will likely come within about 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of the sun in February or March 2013 \u2014 about the same distance as the planet Mercury, researchers said<\/a>.<\/p>\n
During its closest approach to Earth in two years, comet C\/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) likely to be visible low in the western sky shortly after sunset, weather permitting.<\/p>\n
…”The comet has an orbit that is close to parabolic, meaning that this may be the first time it will ever come close to the sun, and that it may never return,” said the University of Hawaii’s Richard Wainscoat in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The close to parabolic orbit means that this could actually be a long period comet, one that an ancient culture might have tracked previously. February\/March 2013 is very close to Dec 21 2012, given that predicting the return of long period comets is very a difficult task. It can’t<\/em> be the return of Comet Caesar<\/a>, as that comet was visible in a different part of the sky, during the middle of the day.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile:<\/p>\n
A newly discovered house-sized asteroid will miss the Earth by less than 17,700 km (11,000 miles) on Monday June 27, 2011. That’s about 23 times closer than the Moon. The size and location of the asteroid, named 2011 MD<\/a>, should allow observers in certain locations to take a look at the space rock, even with small telescopes. It’s closest approach will be at 13:26 UTC on June 27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The estimated size is between 9 to 45 meters, just under the 50 meter limit, where any asteroids of that size or less are expected to completely burn up and disintegrate should they enter our atomosphere. Over 50 meters is a real threat.<\/p>\n
Two days warning. <\/strong>If it was a larger asteroid, heading for where you live, would you be able to escape? This is one of the many reasons to have your plans made ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The comet was discovered by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope which scans areas of the sky for dangerous asteroids. It is early days, but they estimate that:
\nThe comet will likely come within about 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of the sun in February or March 2013 \u2014 about the same distance as the planet Mercury, researchers said.
\nDuring its closest approach to Earth in two years, comet C\/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) likely to be visible low in the western sky shortly after sunset, weather permitting.
\n…”The comet has an orbit that is close to parabolic, meaning that this may be the first time it will ever come close to the sun, and that it may never return,” said the University of Hawaii’s Richard Wainscoat in a statement.
\nThe close to parabolic orbit means that this could actually be a long period comet, one that an ancient culture might have tracked previously. February\/March 2013 is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,234],"tags":[421,422],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-comets","tag-2011-md","tag-c2011-l4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}