https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/09/08/that-asteroid-did-kinda-hit-the-earth-after-all-maybe/ Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/09/08/that-asteroid-did-kinda-hit-the-earth-after-all-maybe/#comment-481769 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:12:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20276#comment-481769 David, if the asteroid is in a more elliptical orbit than the Earth, but with a period of about a year, then it would sort of “cross” the Earth’s orbit 4 times a year. This is the only possible thing they could be talking about, although on most of these passes, the asteroid would not actually be anywhere near the Earth itself.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/09/08/that-asteroid-did-kinda-hit-the-earth-after-all-maybe/#comment-481768 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:28:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20276#comment-481768 I don’t understand how there can be more than 4 passes per year. What sort of orbit does that? On the bright side, i suppose we will have many opportunities to observe it and refine the predictions.

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