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Anonymous ID: bb9ee8 June 7, 2019, 11:38 a.m. No.6695031   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5048 >>5366

>>6694545 lb

>>6694732 lb

 

I just don't see why the press is freaking out about asteroid 2006QV89. The 2006 in its name means it was found in the year 2006. See pix.

 

The NASA Sentry (automated collision monitoring system) website doesn't even list 2006QV89. Go to website and search for 2006 - only six asteroids found in 2006 are listed and none is 2006QV89 or 2006 QV89. Website table is sorted by the Palermo Scale that rates technical impact hazard.

 

NASA's Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring site:

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

 

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The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center website shows Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) as of 2017 (so the 2006 one surely fell within the time range of consideration) but 2006QV89 is not on the list. Go to website to see the whole table, which is sorted by distance from Earth (2006QV89 is predicted to pass Earth at a disance of 0.04587 AU or 6,861,695 km.

 

https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/PHACloseApp.html

 

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Here's the European Space Agency's info on 2006QV89:

 

http://neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-asteroids?sum=1&des=2006QV89

Anonymous ID: bb9ee8 June 7, 2019, 12:12 p.m. No.6695366   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6695031

>>6695048

 

More explanation as to why asteroid 2006QV89 is not a big deal.

 

Regarding asteroid 2006QV89 (same as 2006 QV89), here is NASA's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Small-Body Database Browser that has an interactive orbit viewer. You can manipulate it to see the trajectories of whatever asteroid you choose in relation to the Earth, Sun, and the planets on any date you choose.

 

Looks like its closest approach in 2019 will be September 21 through 26 at 0.041 AU (astronomical units, where 1 AU equals the distance from the Earth to the Sun). Note that the table on the website shows that 2006QV89 passed by Earth on 1985-Dec-30 at a minimum distance of 0.0282308920805272 AU (half that of the 2019 approach) as well as on 2006-Sep-05 at a minimum distance of 0.0204127411594397 (even closer than 1985).

 

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?cad=1;cov=0;log=0;old=0;orb=1;sstr=2006%20QV89#cad