Assume nothing! Carpe Diem! A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn't notice until 2 days later
A break from the species ending attempts of the Cult of Moloch.
From here:
“A stealthy asteroid the size of a 20-story building hid in the sun's glare before zooming uncomfortably close to Earth on July 13. Scientists didn't notice until July 15.”
A “stealthy” asteroid? As opposed to one bedecked in glaring, flashing lights?
Still, nice to know that a near earth object can pass between the moon and the earth and get spotted, even after two days.
“Now dubbed 2023 NT1, the roughly 200-foot-wide (60 meters) space rock sailed past our planet on July 13, traveling at an estimated 53,000 mph (86,000 km/h), according to NASA. However, because the rock flew toward Earth from the direction of the sun, our star's glare blinded telescopes to the asteroid's approach until long after it had passed.”
Ah hah.. a well used tactic – using the sun to blind line of sight! Damned stealthy asteroid. How on earth did it get past the sun? Maybe it has a “zero carbon” agreement with it.
Of course, NASA picked it up, or the Chinese or American/Russian space stations?
“Astronomers didn't catch wind of the building-size rock until July 15, when a telescope in South Africa — part of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), an array of telescopes designed to spot asteroids several days to weeks before any potential impact — caught the rock making its exit from our neighborhood.”
Oh. Not NASA then but a system “designed to spot asteroids several days to weeks before any potential impact”.
Better late than never?
Weill a 53,000 mph rock (no mention of mass) “as large as a 20-story building “, “zooming by our planet at roughly a quarter of the distance between Earth and the moon” suggests to me that it might be of sufficient sizer to take out a major city of millions of people.
The the Chicxulub impactor was 6 miles wide and left an impact crater some 90 miles wide before destroying almost all life on the planet – so this one was less than one hundred times the size of that “big one”.
Onwards
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"A stealthy asteroid ... Scientists didn't notice until July 15.”
The Lord works in mysterious ways; a warning shot across hubris laden bows....
More of God's handiwork helping to expose the fragility of our existence along with the massive incompetence and ineffectiveness of NASA and government agencies that spend enormous sums of tax dollars under the guise of keeping us safe from such events.