The Sky This Month
Beware 95 Asteroids
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Welcome to our night-time sky. Please enjoy
this month’s tidbits of knowledge. We are
lucky to live in a dark-sky area where the
heavens can shine through. I hope you enjoy
the sky and perhaps learn a thing or two.
Happy star gazing!
Close Encounters - There may be aliens up there buzzing
around our solar system, but this discussion is about a
verifiable group of objects - asteroids. In June alone, there
will be 95 cataloged asteroids zipping by Earth. Anyone of
them could cause a massive fireball or destroy life on Earth if
the asteroid is large enough and if the asteroid hits directly.
There is no need to fear though. June’s asteroids are traveling
by at a large distance from Earth. The farthest asteroid will
pass us at a distance of 6.5 AU. AU stands for Astronomical
Unit, which corresponds to the average distance between the
Earth and the Sun, so 6.5 AU is pretty far away. The nearest
asteroid however, will pass within 0.26 AU, which is roughly
10 LD. LD stands for Lunar Distance, which is the average
distance between the Earth and the Moon. There are roughly
389 LDs in an AU. So, the nearest asteroid this month will
still be ten times further than the distance between the Earth
and the Moon. Occasionally, asteroids pass between the Earth
and Moon (or at least less than the distance between the two).
On June 2nd, 2011, a 23 foot long asteroid passed by at 0.9
LD. An asteroid of that size would break up and burn in our
atmosphere. On September 14th of last year, one passed by
at a mere 0.9 LD, which is closer than the geosynchronous
satellites that are orbiting the Earth.
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