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A 70-ft asteroid will skim by the Earth tomorrow... (Original Post) kentuck 22 hrs ago OP
20500. Just sayin'. NT mahatmakanejeeves 22 hrs ago #1
Any chance it will change course and hit mar a lago? chicoescuela 21 hrs ago #2
Gravitational pull fragmentation. bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #3
That's some cheerful wishful thinking. I like it. Walleye 21 hrs ago #4
No. 56,000 miles - a quarter of the way to the moon - is as close as it gets muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #5
Thank you. It was an attempt at a joke. chicoescuela 21 hrs ago #6
I thought it probably was, but the first reply took it seriously muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #7
Appreciate that. My attempts at humor are not always apparent. chicoescuela 21 hrs ago #8
What is there to say but... Buns_of_Fire 21 hrs ago #9
Is there any way to send co-ordinates for Mar-a-Lago up to the asteroid? OGBuzz 20 hrs ago #10
How many other objects are zooming around out there that they haven't discovered? And didn't DOGE cut these programs? ChicagoTeamster 20 hrs ago #11

muriel_volestrangler

(106,582 posts)
5. No. 56,000 miles - a quarter of the way to the moon - is as close as it gets
Sun May 17, 2026, 10:32 AM
21 hrs ago

They know its trajectory well by now, and it can't just change - like geostationary satellites (about half the distance to the Earth) can't just change suddenly.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,582 posts)
7. I thought it probably was, but the first reply took it seriously
Sun May 17, 2026, 10:37 AM
21 hrs ago

so I thought something else ought to too, saying it's not going to happen.

ChicagoTeamster

(1,260 posts)
11. How many other objects are zooming around out there that they haven't discovered? And didn't DOGE cut these programs?
Sun May 17, 2026, 11:50 AM
20 hrs ago

The ones that search for asteroids?

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