Asteroid Near Miss

[EWolfe]

"Do you suppose one could actually see it as it goes by?"

 

From the page Dru linked to:

"Based on albedo contraints...the diameter of the object is about 320 meters. At the time of the closest approach, the asteroid will be a naked eye object (3.3 mag.) traveling rapidly (42 degrees per hour!) through the constellation of Cancer."

 

42 degrees per hour is slow enough to keep track of but probably too slow to be of continual interest. That is, I'm not going to be watch it all night--if I'm still alive in 2029.

 

You'll be watching it through your pop-bottle lenses, and your depends won't last all night anyway, although your arthritis keeps you up.

[klenke]

Dude, I won't be that old.

I'll be 57 (in April)...and younger than you, bub.

I was speaking more toward not being alive cuz of dyin' in them there mountains.

[EWolfe]

 

It kind of weird. We just got this sun conure, and they are supposed to live for 25 years, so just the other night we were figuring out how old we would be in 2030. I WILL be old!