Mars dodges its own space bullet today

Socrates II — 1/30/2008 7:26:33 PM (archived)

Space rock misses Mars today:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080130-mars-miss.html

Assuming it did miss, how soon will it close enough to Earth
again for astronomers to detect it? And has anyone calculated
when or if it might hit Mars or even Earth in the future?

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2007 TU 24, an asteroid to come very close to the Earth on the 29th - Raoul - 1/24/2008 7:20:30 PM
- Asteroid Zooms by Earth - pb - 1/30/2008 6:49:23 AM
- Maybe a dumb question - Greg - 1/25/2008 10:59:49 AM
  - re: Maybe a dumb question - Thomas Jackson - 1/26/2008 3:47:28 AM
    - re: Maybe a dumb question - Greg - 1/27/2008 5:50:37 AM
  - A very good question, - ER - 1/26/2008 12:23:43 AM
    - re: A very good question, - Greg - 1/27/2008 5:48:53 AM
      - Aluminum foil. - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 3:32:40 PM
        
        Hats? (n/t) - nick hoffman - 1/29/2008 5:02:37 AM
        
        A few beacons here and there - Socrates II - 1/30/2008 1:33:38 PM
        
        You got it brother. (n/t) - TAFKASE - 1/29/2008 4:19:36 PM
- shouldn't there be a limit - DJL - 1/24/2008 9:34:39 PM
  - re: shouldn't there be a limit. - Never a limit/hope for a few. - Marcia - 1/25/2008 4:55:38 AM
    - re: shouldn't there be a limit. - Never a limit/hope for a few. - Marcia - 1/25/2008 5:06:31 AM
      - re: shouldn't there be a limit. - Never a limit, hope for a link.., - Marcia - 1/25/2008 5:08:48 AM
  - Voyagers - Raoul - 1/24/2008 10:05:16 PM
    - Arecibo is going to look at this little space rock - Socrates II - 1/25/2008 7:17:11 PM
      - Sky & Telescope article and sky map on TU24 - Socrates II - 1/25/2008 9:15:18 PM
        
        re: Sky & Telescope article and sky map on TU24 - Thomas Jackson - 1/26/2008 4:41:18 AM
        
        A little reality here - Socrates II - 1/27/2008 1:16:44 AM
        
        First close-ups of TU24 - Socrates II - 1/27/2008 1:35:50 AM
        
        The images - Raoul - 1/27/2008 9:01:02 AM
        
        Mars dodges its own space bullet today - Socrates II - 1/30/2008 7:26:33 PM

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