NEO Asteroid 2011 WP4 to Graze Earth on November 24, 2011 (Just Discovered Nov. 18)
It's a pretty whimpy sized one but if it does enter our atmosphere, wouldn't that be cool to see it break up :D I'll be watching...
"NEO Advisory on Friday Nov 18 2011 NASA has located a very new Near Earth Object to pass very near to earth on NOV 24 2011.
This object was just discovered on Friday Nov 18 2011. Therefore NASA has had limited data to make orbit projections on 2011 WP4. The level of uncertainty is one level below maximum uncertainty. In layman's terms they have basically took an educated guess as to if it will miss earth or not."
article + NEO table:
http://50kview.blogspot.com/2011/11/nov-20-2011-attention-new-neo-asteroid.html
2011 WP4 Orbit Diagram (i tried all angles and it just looks like it is on top of Earth on the exact same spot that the Earth place marker is on Nov. 24? Was wondering if - and how much - higher or lower in orbit than us it might be....):
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20WP4;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity launch postponed by one day:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/status.html
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