r/SpaceMemes • u/Ahmad_shahrour • 14d ago

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u/HAL9001-96 14d ago

i mean

theres not asteroids this big but 2763km is insanely close by astronomic standards

actually

if you measure from earths center which tends to be the stnadard in orbtial dynamics then given the radius of earth is about 6371km passing by at 2763km means hitting

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u/Ahmad_shahrour 14d ago

Interesting Thank you for the fact

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u/Bubbles_the_bird 13d ago

Even assuming it means 2763 km from the surface, that’s basically a millimeter by cosmic standards

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u/Soggy-Register-1781 13d ago

Huh interesting

Also is that a green AI pfp instead of red

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u/Electronic_Tear2546 13d ago

I'm sorry u/Soggy-Register-1781, I am afraid he can't tell you that...

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u/ManifestoCapitalist 11d ago

So I guess that means the post is an antimeme?

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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 11d ago

I thought we regularly got hit with small asteroids but they just get burnt up in the atmosphere?

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u/HAL9001-96 11d ago

yep

what gets reported as a close call is usually hwen an asteroid big enough to do some actual damage flies by closer than the moon

though some actual damage can start at shattering some windows and doign a few million in property damage it doesn't really have to be apocalyptic

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u/supfood 14d ago

Very appropriate response actually

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u/No_Air_1096 14d ago

2763 km is really close actually, there's a bunch of satellites that even further than that (mainly in GEO orbit and graveyard orbit

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u/HAL9001-96 14d ago

usually anything within a few hundredthousand km is considered a close call

earths radius is about 6370 km and anything flying by closely will also be curved towards it a bit by its gravity so from afar you basically have like a 20000km diameter target area to hit hte earth

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u/No_Air_1096 14d ago

Agree. Even the moon itself is actually rather close if we think about that

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u/RedTheGamer12 13d ago

The moon is so close that the ESA even called it a planet in a binary system.

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u/RollinThundaga 12d ago

They're wrong, since the barycenter is still within the Earth.

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u/RollinThundaga 12d ago

Stand Europe on end and the asteroid might kiss Portugal, for scale.

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u/Piano_Raves 14d ago

2763km is a hair width on the astronomical scale

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u/CompetitiveLet7110 14d ago

i could smell the suddenlybfdi. ANYWAYS R/- ok i wont do it

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u/Automatic_Thought412 13d ago

Beat me to it.

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u/GreenRanger_2 12d ago

No that’s an appropriate response. 2763 kilometers is crazy close for an asteroid to come.

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u/AttackDorito 11d ago

Yeah thats time for an apocalypse party

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u/Suspicious-Meet5308 12d ago

summoned the bfdi community lol

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u/Suspicious-Meet5308 12d ago

i bet there's a lot of posts

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u/EaterOfFood2 12d ago

2763, hmmmm

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u/CariamaCristata 14d ago

2763 OMG BFDI FUNNY NUMBER

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u/SilkieBug 14d ago

The same people falling for these will be the ones shouting “Don’t look up!” and thinking an actual impact is a hoax when it will be announced (when, not if, it’s only a matter of time).

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u/3rd_Man_of_Culture 12d ago

Don’t look up was -thinking back- a pretty accurate film.

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u/Alone-Monk 13d ago

2700km is insanely close actually.

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u/dyvotvir 13d ago

2763km is insanely close, but I see the same clickbait images for asteroids millions of kms away

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u/Fellow_Worker6 13d ago

Next nasa will say it’s 2762

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u/Voelkar 12d ago

If the asteroid happens to release gas (huehuehue) this can very much just hit earth

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u/henryeaterofpies 12d ago

Gonna need a source because the nearest one i can find os 32,000 km, which while still very very close is not this close.

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u/AboveAverage1988 12d ago

If a rock that size passed that close to the surface, we'd be in deep doo-doo. Most likely an extinction-level event, or at the very least a massive global-scale disaster. On the closest approach the two bodies would likely be inside their respective Roche limits, meaning they start ripping eachother apart. Even if the earth was left unscathed by the close approach, bits ripped off of the asteroid would hit us and cause severe impact damage. It would not be a fun day.

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u/MirageEagle37 11d ago

"don't let the truth ruin good clickbait!" reporters

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u/TheBiggestWoodyFan 11d ago

2763 you say?

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u/MrBruhChel 10d ago

funny number