In Pics: Huge asteroid heading for Earth today! NASA issues warning
NASA has issued a warning that a gigantic asteroid is on its way towards Earth. Will the asteroid hit or miss the planet? How does NASA study these far-off objects which are millions of kilometers away in space? Here's what the space agency has to say.
Kilometers per hour, most likely. I saw another figure for 10 km/sec, which checks out.
It might sound high, but this is part for the course for those objects. Keep in mind Earth's orbital velocity is about 30 km/s.
I was not really worried about the actual speed more about the fact that they did not state waht measure they were using yet that the numbers are so exact. It reeks of comms to me.