So i rellay,really should not worry?

Really really.

Safe and sound. From TU24 anyway.

Well, you should worry that there are individuals out there that will blithely feed you falsehoods in order to promote their own agendas.

You shouldn't worry about the wondrous asteroid 2007 TU24 having any physical effect upon anyone on Earth any time soon.

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3 hours to Earth closest approach:

0835 UTC
0335 EST
0035 PST

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I assume this asteroid is going to be bringing all sorts of space debris/small bits along with it. Will we be seeing any of that hit/bounce off the atmosphere?

I just saw something that looked HUGE fall out of the sky west of central Alberta Canada some 4 hours ago, though it was a little foggy out, so the streak probably looked a lot larger than it really was.

nothibg has happened here in TN yet

TU24 is afraid of the TVA.

Welcome to BAUT. I'm curious if you could explain why you would assume there would be a lot of debris along with the asteroid? This isn't a particularly large asteroid, and I'm not aware of any evidence of a debris cloud.

Even if there was some debris, close approach is over 500,000 km, so I'd say no.

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And we bid a fond farewell to 2007 TU24 Bye bye!

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Hey were alive!!

Speak for yourself. I'm at work and trying to fake death.

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/hey Yahoo says the c;psest approach is tonight? i'm confused i thought it was last night.

It's over. The big nothing has happened.

If Yahoo says it happens tonight, Yahoo is wrong.

Bad Astronomy Blog: 2007 TU24: Told ya so

Further amusing derision of the ridiculous claims about 2007 TU24 are available in the blog entry and comments.

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The International Earth Destruction Advisory Board's Earth destruction alert level is still Green and the Geocide count is still zero. So I guess all is well despite the warnings of the spreaders of FUD.

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Not sure if mrsix will be back to answer --- my speculation is that he/she was confusing asteriod with comet.

What? No mountainous hunk of space debris in today's forecast? I feel so jipped. I wanted to survive at least one good semi-apocalyptic cataclism before I sloughed off the mortal coil.

Now, I gotta wait 20 yrs for that lame global warming crap. I'm so bummed out.

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In a lot of science fiction films about asteroids hitting the Earth, or such a disaster being narrowly averted by all people (or a few heroes) coming together and doing the right thing, there are loose megaliths depicted crashing into tall buildings and sidewalks hours or even days before the *big* collision. mrsix may be getting his intuition from these, or perhaps you are right about him confusing asteroids and comets.

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I would have thought that any sort of large rock traveling through space would have some manner of junk traveling with it, be it small bits broken off along the way, or just whatever the gravity managed to drag along with it when it started its journey.

As far as the small debris hitting earth, I would have thought the earths gravity would attract something like that over what small gravity that asteroid might have.

probably a bit of that too...

The previous asteroid 2004XP14 indeed came closer than the 2007TU24 .
Heres a simulation of its approach to Earth in 2006 .
Viewpoint is from the sun , looking to Earth .
As the simulation was run backwards from now the asteroid ( at the left ) came "from above ".

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