Comments on: Radar images of near Earth asteroid as it zipped past the Earth https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mark Sizer https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617456 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:39:31 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617456 The ocean is not great either: Tsunamis.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617435 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:00:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617435 Agreed.

Football season is coming–and that’ all that people care about.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617403 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:17:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617403 Twelve day warning for a potential city killing rock.

Nothing to see here.

Go back to your Kardashians and Sweeneys. Argue over where a relic space vehicle should sit as a museum piece. Armchair Quarterback some war on the other side of the globe.

The odds are in our favor with these rocks. Even if they hit, the world is mostly ocean. But the one day we roll the dice and get snake eyes, people will scream why, why did we not do something. Hear is to hoping it is not in our lifetimes.

]]> By: Allan https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617245 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:45:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617245 200 feet across and of solid rock with iron, sounds like a city killer. Meteor Crater in Arizona was made by
an iron rich asteroid believed to be 100 to 170 feet across.
Speed matters. 2025 OW was moving at just under 47,000 mph (13 miles per second) and presumably still is.
The Meteor Crater impact was estimated to be at 29,000 mph.

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617180 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:41:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617180 Chuck,
If Starship reduces launch costs to $200 per pound, the value in Low Earth orbit rises to $4 billion, and more valuable at the Lagrange points and in lunar orbit. This depends, of course, on the cost of pulling iron out of the lunar soil, because if that is not too expensive then that would be the place to mine various materials.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617105 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:40:46 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617105 I would love to see that thing captured as a second moon

]]> By: Chuck https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617030 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:26:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617030 Well, if you assume it’s mostly iron, a rough calculation arrives at 20,000,000 pounds, with a reclaim value of $1,000,000. Not enough to mount a mining mission (yet).

Of course, once in-situ resource recovery/processing is a thing, it might be worth more on the Moon than Earth.

]]> By: Dave F. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/radar-images-of-near-earth-asteroid-as-it-zipped-past-the-earth/#comment-1617010 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:17:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=116237#comment-1617010 Looks a lot like 8-bit Space Invader icons. Just need some old Atari sound effects.

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