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Very close shave! NEO to come within 12,000 km of Earth today, February 4!

Giovanni Sostero & Ernesto Guido
remanzacco.blogspot.com
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:56 UTC

The newly discovered object, officially designated 2011 CQ1, will make a close Earth approach today February 04, 2011 around 19:40UT at ~0.03(LD)/0.00008(AU) or 11855 km.

2011 CQ1 has been discovered by R. A. Kowalski few hours ago in the course of the "Catalina Sky Survey" with a 0.68-m Schmidt + CCD. The object was moving at roughly 6 "/min and it was of magnitude ~19. According to its absolute magnitude H=32 this is a very small object, in the order of 2-3 meters.

Just few hours after his discovery, we have been able to follow-up this object using remotely a 0.35-m f/3.8 reflector + CCD of "Tzec Maun Observatory" in New Mexico. At the moment of our images (on February 04.46), "2011 CQ1" was moving at 23"/min and its magnitude was ~18.

Here you can see our image (stacking of 20 unfiltered exposures, 10 seconds each). Click on the image for a bigger version:

While this is an animation showing the object movement in the sky here.

According to Bill Gray (Findorb developer): "That perigee value is solid to within a few kilometers. So no chance of an impact, but still _very_ close!!"

The orbital elements published here, are very interesting:

2011 CQ1

Perigee 2011 Feb 4.818749 TT = 19:38:59 (JD 2455597.318749)

Epoch 2011 Feb 4.8 TT = JDT 2455597.3 Find_Orb

q 11855.6869km (2000.0) P Q

H 32.1 G 0.15 Peri. 156.15870 -0.32177738 -0.84067340

Node 92.60696 -0.92360962 0.17747398

e 1.7936521 Incl. 25.85075 -0.20833766 0.51163581

From 11 observations 2011 Feb. 4 (6.3 hr); mean residual 0".362.

As shown by the ephemeris, 2011 CQ1 will be visible for a few hours. It would be really interesting to follow-up this object in the next few hours, during its very close approach when it will reach the magnitude 14!

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Reader Comments

Appollynon · 2011-02-04T11:35:22Z

Another electric universe "hit"

I was wondering when a cause or link for today's up-tick in earthquake and weird weather activity would be found. Thank you for sharing the dot that connects both. The recent predicted CME and cosmic wind influx was not as powerful as first suggested, so my feeling was, that this would not likely explain the increased activity. Instead we have the effects of an additional comet flyby discharging electromagnetic waves in our neighbourhood, transmitting those EM waves to the planets core and IMF, and the result...more dramatic earthquake activity, and extremely rare and strong winds (strong enough to hamper local gas main work) whipping the UK, which are strengthening and continuing as I type. My feeling is, that this activity will likely not subside now for at least another 24-48hrs and the weather anomalies and earthquakes may become even stronger as the energy reverberates around the IMF and earth inner core structure.

Woodsman · 2011-02-05T14:37:41Z

I didn't get the impression that such a small object could be the catalyst in terms of weather and geologic disturbances via the electric solar system theory.

As I understood it, the dark star is the thing which is grounding the system, and that, in conjunction with the approaching Wave, along with human activities in the spiritual sense, are the primary drivers behind all the chaotic activity we are seeing.

Woodsman · 2011-02-04T16:44:50Z

Warning times

This thing was only discovered a few hours ago.

I guess that's the kind of warning window we're probably looking at for future impact events.

Things are getting a bit crazy out there, aren't they?

We have another couple of years of this stuff? Yikes..!

V3_Exceed · 2011-02-05T11:13:10Z

The Only reason we are hearing about this is because it is going to miss. If there were ANY chance that this rock would hit a populated area, the PTB would say nothing. They would say nothing for 2 reasons.

1) Panic, the lemmings of society would first turn on each other via robberies and violence. and
2) Responsibility, in the aftermath of an impact, the sheeple would turn on their respective leaders and demand responsibility to the damages as well as compensation.

It is far better to say nothing, claim you had no warning, but you are there to help after the fact and not have to endure either the widespread panic that would help no one.

What NASA would have you believe, is that they can see the outer reaches of the cosmos, but cannot see the area within 1-2 AU with any clarity. And....people will believe them. But then "people" have never really been that bright. (sweeping generalization noted, the 'few' truly bright people excepted)

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LouCypher · 2011-02-05T02:55:01Z

Ho Humm

More panic mongering.

"According to its absolute magnitude H=32 this is a very small object, in the order of 2-3 meters."

What's the problem?

doesitmatter · 2011-02-05T13:32:33Z

That's what I'm wondering too.

shellycheval · 2011-02-05T04:12:13Z

It will be interesting

to see if there is an increase in the "discharges" and "volcanic" behavior in the Egypt neighborhood coinciding with this approach.

marc-0009 · 2011-02-05T13:08:34Z

Is the sky falling yet?

What is it that we are supposed to do or gleen from the potential for being destroyed by an asteroid...

I have always been confused by these kinds of stories...

The human show must go on... certainly when the earths number is up and she gets slammed by an asteroid we will all be dead... The rich the poor, the right and the left as well as all of us... There is no shame in getting wiped out by an asteroid, I guess if it happens it happens!!

It's not like we can get mad or upset with the asteroid... I am sure it has no ill will towards us... I am not sure that mankind will ever posses the ability to stop an asteroid from hitting the earth so that is why I am confused at the significance of these NEO stories..

Rabelais · 2011-02-06T04:08:32Z

We'll never know what hit us

When one of these NEOs, large enough to do some real damage, is detected only hours away, or even days or weeks away, the public will never be told.

Keeping the loosh producing fear churning out is the "significance of these NEO stories..", at least when the MSM runs with them.

In the meantime, studying the work and theories of the more credible catastrophists, as well as unfolding events, allows us to acquire objective insight into our real world. Knowledge protects. The uniformitarians, along with the public who have been lulled to sleep by their assurances that these events only happen every zillion years or so will be caught flatfooted.

I think that we will all be exactly where we are supposed to be, depending on levels of awareness, when things really heat up.

Watch the skies.

marc-0009 · 2011-02-06T12:41:37Z

Ok... So the idea is that we should be told that we are going to die in "T minus 3 weeks"?

What difference will it make?

When the end result is certain death how does knowledge of it protect any one in this case!

I have always thought that knowing the exact date of my death would be creepy and sort of counter to the human experience. To let everyone on the planet know they are going to be dead would most likely make the final collective days pretty darn miserable and for what?

I suppose for those who's idea is to be the last man standing - advanced warming would help them get their guns and bottled water ready in a little bunker somewhere! Might be a miserable million years or so!!

Joe · 2011-02-06T15:34:30Z

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the earth has gone through cyclical catastrophes, with a large comet approach and/or smaller cometary bombardment being the cause. When I say "cyclical", I don't mean every 65 million years, but every 10,000 or less years. There is also the idea that, in some broad cosmic and 'spiritual' sense, these catastrophes are linked with the progress, or lack thereof, of human evolution on earth. One way to look at it is, 'god' spares humanity to the extent that humanity is sufficiently 'spare-worthy'. So, we may not be innocent bystanders as regards planetary cataclysm, but rather co-architects of our own demise, depending on how awake and aware we are.

Anyone interested in reading more about such topics can check out 'The Wave' series by Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

NugaBurd · 2011-02-05T23:40:09Z

If it bleeds, it leads

Catastrophes and near catastrophes are "news."

carbie · 2011-02-06T06:43:54Z

i agree

i agree with woodsman and v3_exceed ....only a little rock so whats the panic? also if it was something that could do serious damage we wouldn't know about it.... more media hype

Unfortunately for any of us left after the big one hits the first thing we will need won't be organisation or food or water,,,,,, it will be a gun

Noise · 2011-02-06T15:41:18Z

Guns, Panic Mongering..

Some of the responses are interesting..

What in the article is panic mongering? Why would a person go for the gun when they might need to plan, especially if they aren't prepared? Survival is not a gun, it is the things you threw away, "the first thing we will need WON'T be organization or food or water", talk about tossing out the baby with the bathwater.

People really seem asleep. They are not paying attention to reality left and right. There is a high probability the planet will be hit by an asteroid, today or in 10,000 years.. who knows, but it IS going to happen as it has.

Here's something some posters might consider working on. [Link]It might be useful in helping to be open minded or reading into things that aren't there (Panic Mongering). Just my 2 cents if it's worth anything to you.

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