Near Earth Asteroids

**American Patriot** · November 3rd, 2011, 19:58

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.

On November 3, 2011 there were 1256 potentially hazardous asteroids.

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid	Date(UT)	Miss Distance	Mag.	Size
2011 UX255	Oct 28	0.4 LD	--	15 m
2011 FZ2	Nov 7	75.9 LD	--	1.6 km
2005 YU55	Nov 8	0.8 LD	--	200 m
2011 UT91	Nov 15	9.9 LD	--	102 m
1994 CK1	Nov 16	68.8 LD	--	1.5 km
1996 FG3	Nov 23	39.5 LD	--	1.1 km
2003 WM7	Dec 9	47.6 LD	--	1.6 km
1999 XP35	Dec 20	77.5 LD	--	1.0 km
2000 YA	Dec 26	2.9 LD	--	80 m
2011 SL102	Dec 28	75.9 LD	--	1.1 km

Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

**vector7** · November 8th, 2011, 17:44

Here is some RUMOR information:

Potential Impact Zone & Time of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Defined On Google Earth and Government Documents

The Intel Hub

Shepard Ambellas
November 5, 2011

Note: Listen to Shepard Ambellas and members of Godlike Productions on Clyde Lewis’ Ground Zero Radio on this subject HERE

On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, a strange series of events are set to take place that you should be informed about — many events pertaining to the subject have already happened which in turn lead up to this date and have been covered periodically by The Intel Hub.

New information has come to light surrounding the asteroid YU55′s “close pass” on November 9 (by the moon and earth).

Image Via: Google Earth – Partial source here and here.

Google Earth now shows a large red X over the projected potential impact zone.

Massive world wide tsunami systems drills as well as the FEMA/FCC takeover drill, that FEMA has openly said may not be a test, are set and in place for Nov. 9th along with a plethora of other drills that day.

But what is most alarming is the fact that the PACWAV11 exercise depicts the tsunami in the same location marked on Google Earth with a red X

PACWAV11

Notice how the documentation says FORECAST! This puts the potential impact time on Nov. 9, 2011 at 22:35 UTC (5:35 pm EST) with a burn-in direction out of the west by northwest.

What is even more uncanny is that a soldier has been taken into custody on suspicion of espionage — (our sources say, not independently confirmed) while uncovering potential secret ELENIN (Extinction Level Event Notable Impact November) intel in the Alaskan region depicted on the potential burn-in zone of this massive continent killer asteroid.

UPDATE – Interestingly enough, another alternative media site that is not affiliated with The Intel Hub is reporting similar information on the solider arrested on espionage charges.

Fox News reports;

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – U.S. Army officials are withholding details behind the arrest of a 22-year-old soldier suspected of espionage, but they stressed Wednesday there is no connection with the case involving an Army analyst suspected of disclosing secret intelligence to WikiLeaks.

Authorities also said Spc. William Colton Millay didn’t transmit any information.

Millay was arrested Friday at a barracks room at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. He is expected to be charged through the military justice system later this week.

Millay, a military police officer, is being held without bail at the Anchorage Correctional Facility.

Army Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said Millay’s arrest is related to an ongoing investigation conducted by the Army and FBI.

No one knows 100% what is going to happen on the 9th or the few days after but for us to ignore these connections would be, at this point, ridiculous.

PODCAST: http://www.groundzeromedia.org/gzpod...s_intelhub.mp3

**vector7** · November 8th, 2011, 18:21

Asteroid 2005 YU55, Size of Modern Aircraft Carrier, Set to Buzz Earth

By Mike Wall
Published November 08, 2011
| Space.com

NASA/JPL-Caltech
Nov. 7, 2011: This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 shows the space rock 3.6 lunar distances, which is about 860,000 miles, or 1.38 million kilometers, from Earth.

An asteroid slightly bigger than a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon Tuesday, Nov. 8, but it poses no danger of smashing into our planet, scientists say.

The asteroid 2005 YU55, which is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) across, will make its closest approach to Earth at 6:28 p.m. EST (2328 GMT) today. At that point, the space rock will be traveling at about 29,000 mph and be about 201,700 miles (324,600 kilometers) from Earth — closer than the moon, which orbits 238,864 miles (384,499 km) from us on average.
The flyby will mark the closest such a big space rock has come to Earth since 1976. But there's no need to scurry down to the basement bunker to await an asteroid impact, researchers say.

"2005 YU55 cannot hit Earth, at least over the interval that we can compute the motion reliably, which extends for several hundred years," research scientist Lance Benner, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., said in a recent NASA video.

Studying the space rock

Researchers are excited about 2005 YU55's close approach, because it gives them a chance to study the space rock as never before. The asteroid was discovered in 2005 by astronomer Robert McMillan of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

"When you look through a telescope, asteroids don't look any different from stars," McMillan said in a statement. "The only difference is that they're moving, and to detect that motion we have to take a series of images. Usually we take three images spaced 20 or 30 minutes apart."

[Photos: Asteroid 2005 YU55 Flyby of Earth]

Radar images of the asteroid were taken when it made a previous flyby of Earth in April 2010 (it makes one trip around the sun every 15 months), but this approach will be much closer, so the views will be much better.

Scientists have already begun taking the space rock's measure using a variety of instruments, including the huge Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and NASA's 230-foot (70-m) Goldstone radar antenna in the California desert.

The Goldstone telescope has new imaging capabilities that should shed particular light on 2005 YU55, Benner said.

"It shows us how big it is, it can show us features on the asteroid, it can tell us information about the asteroid's rotation period," he said in the video.

"We should be able to tell much better with these new observations that we're going to do."

Even those of us without access to the world's biggest radio telescopes still have a chance to spot 2005 YU55 as it zips past Earth. The asteroid will be brightest in the sky a few hours after its closest approach and should be visible with decent equipment under clear, dark skies, experts say.

A skywatcher's guide to 2005 YU55

"You should be able to spot the asteroid with your telescope if it has an aperture of at least 6 to 8 inches," Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope magazine said in a statement.

2005 YU55 will move quickly, covering about 70 degrees of sky in just 10 hours or so, according to Sky & Telescope. (Your clenched fist held at arm's length measures about 10 degrees.) It will also be relatively dim, so skywatchers will probably need some help to find the space rock.

But help is out there. The asteroid's coordinates at any given time can be looked up at JPL's Solar System Dynamics website.

* The 7 Strangest Asteroids in the Solar System
* Asteroid 2005 YU55 – How Radio Telescopes Probe Space Rocks
* Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space

**New Guy** · November 9th, 2011, 17:48

throwin a log on this fire... AK storm today in about the same location as that big red X....another coincidence? prolly.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/powerfu...650-slideshow/

**American Patriot** · November 9th, 2011, 18:06

No, actually, I heard the Russians were making the weather bad you know, and we're using HAARP to try to counter act the whole thing. All of this served to make the atmosphere more volatile and push that darned rock back into space!

**New Guy** · November 9th, 2011, 18:52

leave it to the russians! they are the best!

**American Patriot** · November 9th, 2011, 18:52

Right!

lol

**American Patriot** · November 9th, 2011, 19:44

Asteroid 2005 YU55 'looks like a giant rock floating through space,' reports astronomer

Asteroid 2005 YU55, a giant rock floating through space, looks like a giant rock floating through space, reports one astronomer, who observed the giant rock as it floated through space past the Earth on Tuesday.

By Irene Klotz, Reuters / November 9, 2011

This NASA radar image obtained Monday shows asteroid 2005 YU55 about 860,000 miles from Earth.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Reuters

Enlarge

Tweet
0

Cape Canaveral, Fla.

A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth on Tuesday, delighting astronomers who trained telescopes on the ancient body in hopes of learning more about its composition and origin.

In Pictures: Asteroids

Related stories

With a diameter estimated at 400 meters, or about a quarter of a mile, Asteroid 2005 YU 55 is the biggest asteroid to make a close pass by Earth since 1976.
During its closest approach, which occurred at 6:28 p.m. EST, it was inside the orbit of the moon, about 200,000 miles above the planet. It posed no threat to either.
IN PICTURES: Asteroids

Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers were tracking the asteroid with telescopes, seeking to learn more about what it is made of, how fast it spins and ultimately, where it came from.
"It was pretty easy to find," astronomer Ronald Dantowitz, director of the student-run Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Massachusetts, told Reuters. "It's moving differently than the stars are moving. It looks like a giant rock floating through space."
With automated controls for tracking, the asteroid appeared to be fixed in position, while background stars were a blur, Dantowitz said. The asteroid, however, was moving at about 30,000 mph.
Astronomers believe YU 55 has been visiting Earth for thousands of years, nudged out of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter after a gravitational elbowing by Jupiter.
Computer models simulating the asteroid's path for the next 100 years show there is no chance it will hit Earth or the moon during that time, said Don Yeomans with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Astronomers do not expect it will be a threat beyond that time either but have not run the models beyond 100 years.
Asteroids are of interest to scientists trying to piece together how the solar system formed.
"It costs millions of dollars to send a spacecraft for a close encounter with an asteroid," Dantowitz said. "Instead, this one is coming to us. It's literally streaming through our backyard."
YU 55 is believed to be one of the more common type, carbon-rich asteroids, albeit a large one. Its ancient rocks may contain water, metals and other materials that could be useful for space explorers.
NASA's next human space venture beyond the International Space Station, a $100 billion orbital research outpost flying about 240 miles above Earth, is a mission to an asteroid, targeted for 2025.

**American Patriot** · November 9th, 2011, 19:45

Ok... I gotta ask... Where the HELL do these people get their talent for writing?

LMAO

Asteroid 2005 YU55, a giant rock floating through space, looks like a giant rock floating through space, reports one astronomer, who observed the giant rock as it floated through space past the Earth on Tuesday.