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The Very Boring Video of the Giant Asteroid Passing Earth That You Probably Don’t Want to Watch

Feb. 15, 2013 2:57pm

It happened. The 150-feet* wide DA14 asteroid that had been hyped for some time finally passed by earth at 2:24pm ET only 17,000 miles away — which was the closest it was going to come to our plant. And finally, after all the hype, it ended up being extremely boring. How boring? Watch — if you dare — and try to stay awake:

*​We’ve updated the story to note the asteroid was not 150-miles wide. Maybe it would have been more exciting if it was.

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Comments (40)

  • Matthew7_21_23
    Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:58am

    Here is a system that actually *tracked* the asteroid and captured a video.

    I’ve devoted my entire life’s work developing the off-the-shelf system used in the link below that is capable of tracking these fast movers (Near Earth Objects); privately, with blood sweat and tears and no government funding.

    http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2013/02/16/asteroid-2012-da14-very-close-encounter-an-exceptional-sequence/

    Most other videos show systems that simply pointing to one place in the sky and captured the asteroid going by.

    It is *substantially* more difficult to track the asteroid moving more than 1/2 of a degree a minute and this gives better scientific data on the asteroid itself.

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on February 16, 2013 at 4:59am

    They’ve indicated that this rock may have disrupted the orbits of existing birds and sent them hurtling to Earth, so, no, this was not an “attack” by the United States on Russia, shame on Pravda for encouraging such things (good grief, we have Americans thinking we are attacking Mars!)?

    Men have put a lot of things up there, and you never know what’s tagging along in the wake of these objects. Signs from God? Eh, we see things in the sky all the time, I don’t automatically chalk things up to divine intervention when men have been so active in the air.

    I also don’t believe the government is running around micro chipping people with mind control experiments, some people might believe anything, and I take a grain of salt to everything I hear. Anyone that reads the gospel seriously should know that if Jesus said don’t worry about what time it is, the baptism of power is greater than fear?

    Imagine living your life, based on your perception of headlights moving in the distance (stars) without knowing they are really the headlights of cars, moving down the highway? In other words men are wired to delude themselves easily? Such is the work of prophecy to too many?

    Greater things shall you do, then he did? That’s the only prophecy you need to concentrate on?

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on February 16, 2013 at 12:08pm

      We have launched so much up there that the clutter is now a big problem for the stuff we want.

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  • justangry
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 9:14pm

    I love the headline, Jonathon M. Seidl

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  • shorelineliz
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:18pm

    Dang! I thought the Lord was going to throw another rock at us like the one in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Disappointed that the Lord is aiming so poorly. He must be getting so old and his eye site is so poor. I vote we all take up a Big Collection for the Lord so he can get new eye glasses. Then his aim will be so much better next time. I just would love a direct hit wouldn’t you? sniff. Sniff. So disappointed.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:15pm

    I could name a few places that i wished it would have landed. LOL!

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:30pm

    Ummm… what did you expect?

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    • helmuit_7
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:04pm

      Obama to say that it was Bush’s fault that DA14 didn’t put on a better show and that he (King Obama) had secretly diverted the trajectory of the asteroid using a laser developed by ‘The Obama Core’ (spelled ‘Corp’)

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  • gridley1
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:49pm

    Wow, seriously?? You folks have been way too overstimulated by Hollywood special effects! What did you expect an image of a building sized rock taken from 17,000 miles away to actually look like? Did you expect that giant fantasy rock from Armageddon, with swirling dust clouds and an animal like roar as it passed?? Sheesh!!

    This was real, it was a real story about real science, and it is amazing. BTW, a few years ago the prediction was for it to pass as close as 12,000 miles, so that prediction was off by 5,000 miles. (Don’t scoff… you try to predict the path of a bullet years in advance by watching it move via a telescope in the dark… not easy.) If the variance had been 5,000 miles closer instead of further out, maybe more people would have been excited by it.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:43pm

      Nice to see someone else around here who appreciates the reality of astronomy.

      If it were possible from my little part of the world, I would have had my SCT on it.

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  • liberalism_is_mental_retardation
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:33pm

    Why do I hear that love song by Aerosmith playing when I watch this crap.

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    • ImChiquita
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 9:38pm

      I wish I could uprate your comment.

      ^5 you.

      Thumbs-up.

      But suffice it to say that I freaking love your comment. :)

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  • Keep Your Skepticals On
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:02pm

    About as boring as standing in a 100 acre field and watching a bullet whiz by – 16 inches away.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:44pm

    Sound the all clear siren, let the folks know it’s safe to come out of their bunkers.

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    • RamonPreston
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:29pm

      You mean our politicians? That’s what they built Cheyanne Mountain for. Safety for them and screw us.

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  • pushinginto
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:38pm

    Missed opportunity by NASA to piggy back a ride on this thing.

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:37pm

    Reminds me of the game “Pong”.

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  • saved4ever
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:35pm

    Meteorite? That was Michelle O’s ****! She has too much junk in the trunk!

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  • jmcenanly
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:34pm

    Boring is better than a city killer

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:29pm

    Look at the matter in light of the small detonation over Russia today: would you rather have a very boring flyby of that hunk of rock, or have it land on a city and flatten the place in a megaton size detonation?

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    • helmuit_7
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:31pm

      It all depends on what city you are talking about and who’s in it. ;)

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:31am

      Washington dc when both houses of congress and the potus are both in town.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:27pm

    Woohoo!! Party time!

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:25pm

    Poor Jonathon. They probably drew straws to see who had to do the asteroid article.

    You did good, Jonathon. …And now they owe you one.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:21pm

    Not boring, that’s just what it is.

    Not quite as flashy and boomy as the Russian meteor was…Which according to Alex Jones could have possibly been a kinetic attack on Russia by the US…No kidding, this is supposedly where the “real” news is at…

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:18pm

    Couldn’t keep my eyes off it.

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  • sparkyrules
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:16pm

    “the closest it was going to come to our plant.”

    Which plant was that Jonathon?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:15pm

    Boring yes, but not as bad as another Obama speech.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:31pm

      @Gonzo
      Amen to that. I’ll take the asteroid any day.

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    • helmuit_7
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:46pm

      I’d of had to set on my hands. Don’t know how anybody could do it without that.

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:14pm

    “THE VERY BORING VIDEO OF THE GIANT ASTEROID PASSING EARTH THAT YOU PROBABLY DON’T WANT TO WATCH”

    Stupid reverse psychology. Of course I had to click the link.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:30pm

      At least that one did not enter the earths atmosphere; the smaller one today, if it had exploded a mile or two above the earth would have caused immense damage on the order of Hiroshima.

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  • progdrum
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:13pm

    Yes! I knew Bruce Willis wouldn’t fail us!

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    • searcher619
      Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:21pm

      Good thing he was done filming the new Die Hard else we would have been screwed…

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:03pm

    Did that thing have a signature on it? I think someone autographed it.

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