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mk  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Near Earth Object Program: Sentry Risk Table

Oh my. It's huge.

But it looks like it is on the other side of the sun at that point:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2014+MA68;orb=1

Some are just asking for it:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=101955;orb=1





alpha0  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Won't run Java or Flash on browser so I have no idea what you are looking at :)

mk  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·  

:)

I believe the 0.53 is the distance between orbits on that date, but MA68 is predicted to be on the far side of the sun in its orbit on May 3, 2026. In short, it's a near orbit intersect.

alpha0  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did I misread this? It was the 4th row in the impact table

[p.s distance is 0.58 Earth Radius. Impact Sigma is 0 ..]