Near Earth Asteroid, 85 Foot 2012 KP24 Passing Approx. 1/5th The Distance To The Moon

UPDATE: 5/29/2012
HERE IS THE INFORMATION I COULD PULL FROM THIS INTERNET TODAY TO UPDATE YOU ON THE 6TH CLOSEST NEAR EARTH OBJECT THAT HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED...


SMALL ASTEROID BUZZES EARTH: Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 is flying past Earth today (May 29th) only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface. This means 2012 KT42 will actually fly inside the Clark Belt of geosynchronous satellites. The 3- to 10-meter wide asteroid ranks # 6 on the top 20 list of closest-approachers to Earth. According to the asteroid's orbit, there is no danger of a collision. Even if it did hit, this space rock is too small to cause significant damage. It would likely disintegrate almost entirely in the atmosphere, peppering the ground below with relatively small meteorites. Flyby images: #1, #2.
source: spaceweather.com

2012 KT42 - Close Approach

May 29, 2012 at about 07:07 UT, the asteroid designated2012 KT42 will pass only ~14,000 km (8,700 miles) or about ~0.05 lunar distance (or 0.0001379 AU) above the Earth's surface. The asteroid was discovered by A. R. Gibbs in the course of Mt. Lemmon Survey with a 1.5-m reflector + CCD on May 28, 2012 at magnitude ~18.1.

According to its absolute magnitude (H=28.8) this asteroid has an estimated size of roughly 3-10 meters, so it is a small object. We have been able to follow-up this object soon after his discovery while it was still on the neocp, from the Siding Spring-Faulkes Telescope South on 2012, May 28.4, through a 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD.

At the moment of our images from FTS, "2012 KT42" was moving at about ~3.63 "/min and its magnitude was ~17.5. At the moment of its close approach around 07UT of tomorrow, 2012 KT42 will be bright as magnitude ~12.0 and moving at ~11021"/min.

Below you can see an image (stack of 5x5-second exposures) showing the asteroid. Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version:

Below you can see an animation showing the motion of 2012 KT42. Each frame is a 5-second exposure through the FTS 2.0-m telescope. Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version:

While there is no cause for concern, this is one of the closest approaches recorded. The table below shows the top 20 closest approaches by NEOs (Near-Earth Objects) sorted by nominal distance. The table has been computed on the NASA/Neo-JPL website. 2012 KT42 is the sixth closer approach to date. (2011 CQ1 is the closest non-impacting object in the asteroid catalog to date. The event that took 2008 TC3 into the earth's atmosphere is not included). Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version:

On mpml mailing list, Andrew Lowe pointed out that on May 29 at about 10:10 UT,  2012 KT42 the minimum geocentric elongation from the center of the sun will be 0.1 degrees, so given the parallax there will be a transit across the sun. But with a diameter of about 5m, the object could be only about 0.07" across against the solar disk. Aldo Vitagliano provided this map of the transit (computed by his software Solex). Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version:

According to calculation made by P. Tricarico, 2012 KT42 has experienced a partial eclipse while approaching Earth on May 28, 2012 between 14:05 UTC and 21:45 UTC, before the flyby. See animation below (click on it for a bigger version). Probably the first case ever of an approaching asteroid experiencing an eclipse and a transit during the same flyby with Earth. More info about this on Tricarico's website.

by Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Giovanni Sostero 
source: http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-kt42-close-approach.html


29 MAY, 2012, 12.59PM IST, PTI 

2012 KT42, a newly found asteroid buzzes past Earth

NEW DELHI: A newly-discovered asteroid passed in close proximity to the Earth, just 14,000 km above the planet's surface, today but caused no damage to the orbiting communication satellites. 

The asteroid " 2012 KT42," which entered the Clark Belt of geosynchronous satellites, passed by Earth at around 1230 hours, S N Raghunandan Kumar of Planetary Society of India told PTI. 

The 3 to 10-metre wide asteroid ranks in the list of top ten of closest asteroid approaches to Earth. In fact, this is the sixth closest approach till date, which makes it significant despite its small size. 

The asteroid was not visible to the unaided eye. According to the asteroid's orbit, there was no danger of a collision. Even if it did hit, the space rock is too small to cause significant damage. It would have possibly disintegrated almost entirely in the atmosphere, peppering the ground below with relatively small meteorites, Kumar said. 

Asteroids are a class of solar system bodies in the orbit around the sun. The larger asteroids are been called planetoids.
source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/2012-kt42-a-newly-found-asteroid-buzzes-past-earth/articleshow/13634407.cms


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Yes, another asteroid, another near earth object.  This one is approximately 85 feet large and will come within an estimated 40389 mile distance to Earth.   Therefore, this object will come between the Earth and the Moon, between which the distance is 238,900 miles.  This means, the large object will be really close to Earth.  Here is the information that I scoured from the Internet on the subject.  I cannot vouch for all of the validity because of it coming from the Internet.  However, be aware that the magnetic pull during the next few days may cause further and larger earthquake activity, as well as volcanic activity.  This object is code condition 8, which means UNCERTAIN.  This was found only yesterday and observed since then.  Therefore, there is not much data on this body.  According to what I can pull from the Internet, the approximate day of closest passing will be between May 28-29, 2012.  


Object Information:
The Newly Discovered Asteroid 2012 KP24, other NEOs & Night Sky
2012 KP24 JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2012%20KP24;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#cad
2012 KP24 MPC: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2012+KP24&am...
NEO Earth Close Approaches: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
HORIZONS: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi
Purdue University, Impact Earth: http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

Asteroid 2012 KP24 0.1 LD 26 M Close to Earth on 29 May 2012 alignment of earth venus sun mercury mars gravitational pull earthquakes tsunami hurricanes earth distance 0.0024 AU sun distance 1.012 AU

Asteroid 2012 KP24 on 29 May 2012 aligns earth venus sun mercury mars gravitational pull earthquakes tsunami hurricanes earth distance 0.0024 AU sun distance 1.012 AU

Asteroid 2012 KP24 0.1 LD 26 M Close to Earth on 29 May 2012 alignment of earth venus sun mercury mars gravitational pull earthquakes tsunami hurricanes earth distance 0.0024 AU sun distance 1.012 AU

the idea girl says

it may not be a true alignment but to the eye it sure looks like one in this graph..

NOT GOOD!

it’s bad enough having Cuno 4183 asTEROID 7.8 km CLOSE TO EARTH AND THEN OVER 1293 OTHER’S KICKING CLOSE TO EARTH, DID YOU NOTICE THE NUMBERS WHEN UP FOR THAT TOO?

source: ClickHere

Cause of Arctic Ice Loss & Climate Change Due To Change In Earth's Axis.

Scientists say an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in a part of the atmosphere called the stratosphere caused a record ozone loss over the Arctic. (Beth Ipsen/Arctic Sounder/Associated Press)

Unusual winter weather in the atmosphere high above the Earth's surface caused an "unprecedented" loss of protective ozone over the Arctic this year, scientists say.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/03/arctic-ozone-hole.html?cmp=googleeditorspick

DO YOU THINK THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE STORY ABOVE AND THE NEXT?

Massive Japanese earthquake altered Earth's gravity

Scientists now seeing if they can detect changes as crust settles back into place ...

By Charles Q. Choi

OurAmazingPlanet

updated 10/6/2011 3:45:38 PM ET 2011-10-06T19:45:38

The devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year was powerful enough to slightly alter the pull of gravity under the affected area, scientists have found.

Anything that has mass has a gravity field that attracts objects toward it. The strength of this field depends on a body's mass. Since the Earth's mass is not spread out evenly, its gravity field is stronger in some places and weaker in others.

The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki temblor in March was the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan and the fifth-most powerful quake ever recorded. To see how the temblor might have deformed the Earth there, scientists used the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to analyze the area's gravity field before and after the quake.

The researchers found the Tohoku-Oki quake reduced the gravity field there by an average of two- millionths of a gal by slightly thinning the Earth's crust. In comparison, the strength of the gravitational pull at the Earth's surface is, on average, 980 gals. (The gal, short for Galileo, is a unit of acceleration; one gal is defined as one centimeter per second squared.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806297/ns/technology_and_science-science/

AND DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE ABOVE TWO MAY BE ALSO CONNECTED TO THIS ONE?

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day

Mar 1, 2010 – 6:37 PM

(March 1) -- Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth's overall mass, scientists from NASA say.  http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/01/nasa-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/

How Japan's huge quake altered the planet


The force of Friday's historic temblor has shifted the Earth's axis and moved coastlines up to 13 feet

Last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet's axis.

The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the AP. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States, geophysicist Ross Stein at the United States Geological Survey told The New York Times.

http://bbsnews24.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-japans-huge-quake-altered-planet.html

DOESN'T THE CHANGE IN THE AXIS OF THE EARTH AFFECT THE DIRECTION THE SUN RISES AND SETS AND THEREFORE WOULDN'T IT BE CORRECT TO ASSUME THAT THE ICE CAPS MAY BE MELTING FROM THAT REASON AND THAT THE STRANGE WEATHER (OTHER THAN HAARP RELATED) MAY BE RELATED TO THE CHANGING OF THE AXIS?

Some Inuit say they hope scientists coming to Nunavut for research as part of International Polar Year can help shed light on changes they're seeing in the sun — particularly, how it's been showing up more often in the usually always-dark winters.

For the past several years, residents in the High Arctic have observed that the winter dark season is ending earlier than usual, with the sun coming up at a different place than what people are used to seeing.

  

"The people [are] talking about earlier sunrise, more light in the dark season, instead of being more total darkness than before," Grise Fiord resident Larry Audlaluk said Thursday, adding that he has heard similar observations from people in other Far North communities.

"There are notices of more daylight earlier, and the dark season is not the real dark season that we used to know."

A bit further south, Igloolik Mayor Paul Quassa said hunters have noticed the same phenomenon.

"This year, the sun started coming up so fast that it's almost like April when it's mid-February," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2007/03/09/nu-sun.html?ref=rss

 WHAT DO YOU THINK????