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The clouds broke a little and I was able to see the eclipse little bit yesterday at work. But I did see the full eclipse on the road.

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Mrs. Bag and I drove 14 hours from Houston to Omaha on Saturday to visit her sister and her sister's husband. On Monday we drove 1.5 hours down to Crete, Nebraska for 2 minutes 36 seconds of totality. Crete is a tiny town of 7,000 people. We threw our big city blankets on the grass of their little city park and enjoyed their eclipse. There were white people from all over attending the eclipse there. The library lady came out with a bunch of eclipse glasses and mature everyone had some.

Just as the sun was about 90% covered we saw 4 airplanes fly over and skydivers jumped out.

It was cloudy. There were some high cirrus clouds and some lower cumulus clouds. The cumulus cleared out right as totality started. We couldn't really see the corona, but it lit up the cirrus ice crystals. It was amazing. The streetlights came on, the insects started making noises, and it looked like sunset around the whole horizon.

Words can't do it justice. I will never forget it.
 
So a little guy is gonna pass right by us...like just outside our satellites.

http://nypost.com/2017/10/11/asteroid-to-come-damn-close-to-hitting-earth-expert-warns/

But if it were bigger we could smash the hell out of it! Well more like bump into it and move it a tad...still cool.

But if the agencies detected an object larger than 130 feet across approaching, they would need to start thinking about deflecting the object from Earth’s path. To achieve this, the agencies would fire a spacecraft into the asteroid in an attempt to shift its trajectory — in what is known as a “kinetic impactor” method. But the asteroid would need to be hit when it was at least two years away to give it time to alter its path and clear Earth. “Yes, we have the capability of hitting an asteroid or comet with a satellite,” said Detlef Koschny, near-Earth object segment manager at the Netherlands-based ESA.

“Yes we have the capability of hitting an asteroid or comet with a satellite. NASA have done that in 2004 with the ‘Deep Impact’ mission.

Naming that awesome 2004 mission after the dumb 90's movie aside, that's freaking cool!



 
JHDK said:
So a little guy is gonna pass right by us...like just outside our satellites.

http://nypost.com/2017/10/11/asteroid-to-come-damn-close-to-hitting-earth-expert-warns/

But if it were bigger we could smash the hell out of it! Well more like bump into it and move it a tad...still cool.

But if the agencies detected an object larger than 130 feet across approaching, they would need to start thinking about deflecting the object from Earth’s path. To achieve this, the agencies would fire a spacecraft into the asteroid in an attempt to shift its trajectory — in what is known as a “kinetic impactor” method. But the asteroid would need to be hit when it was at least two years away to give it time to alter its path and clear Earth. “Yes, we have the capability of hitting an asteroid or comet with a satellite,” said Detlef Koschny, near-Earth object segment manager at the Netherlands-based ESA.

“Yes we have the capability of hitting an asteroid or comet with a satellite. NASA have done that in 2004 with the ‘Deep Impact’ mission.

Naming that awesome 2004 mission after the dumb 90's movie aside, that's freaking cool!

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I love how someone from the ESA used the imperial system to point out the distance and size of said asteroid.

Maybe it's good news for Astros fans

Asteroid to zoom 'damn close' to Earth on Thursday, will also test planetary defense system
 
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