Following the fly-by of 2014BL86 on Monday, behold:
A lightness-reversed cropped plot of orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013. These are the asteroids considered hazardous because they are fairly large (at least 460 feet or 140 meters in size), and because they follow orbits that pass close to the Earth’s orbit (within 4.7 million miles or 7.5 million kilometers).
It’s very busy out there.
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We’re all living on a quantum string in the hollow spaces between neutrons swirling around an atom inside a cell of an irritating boil on a dinosaurs butt crack.
Deadly, in it.
Abusive asteroid:
“Nice…………………………trajectory……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..sham”
That’s it. I’m moving to Jupiter. I hear its gas. Calling.
I chuckled :)
Boom boom! That said, one of the reasons there aren’t so many objects crossing Jupiter is because they… eh… tend to run into it.
http://www.space.com/19855-shoemaker-levy-9.html
Spirographic!