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	2004 FU162 - самый "близкий" астероид 2004 года / ROL
		2004 FU162 - самый "близкий" астероид 2004 года / ROL
		2004 FU162 - самый "близкий" астероид 2004 года
		То есть, если бы 2004 FU162 не пролетал бы мимо, а целил бы прямо в Землю, то он взорвался бы в верхних слоях атмосферы, не причинив никакого ущерба человечеству.
	www.rol.ru /news/misc/spacenews/04/08/27_005.htm (141 words)

	2004 FU162
		2004 FU is a meteoroid which passed within about one Earth radius of the surface of the Earth at 15:35 UTC on March 31 2004, or 2.02 Earth radii from the centre of the Earth.
		The discovery was not announced until August 22 2004.
		By comparison, geostationary satellites orbit at 5.6 Earth radii and GPS satellites orbit at 3.17 Earth radii from the centre of the Earth.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/2/20/2004_fu162.html (179 words)

	Asteroid Shaves Past Earth's Atmosphere
		2004 FU162 was deflected by about 20 degrees because of the Earth's gravity.
		The previous record for the closest asteroid approach to Earth was set on 18 March by an object called 2004 FH which missed the Earth by about 40,000 kilometres.
		The smaller 2004 FU162 would have burned up as a fireball ending with a smaller explosion, had it ventured into the Earth's atmosphere.
	www.rense.com /general56/sat.htm (388 words)

	TonyRogers.com \| Large Asteroid Grazes Past Earth's Atmosphere
		The closest observed large asteroid yet to skim past the Earth without hitting the atmosphere was reported by astronomers on Sunday, August 22, 2004.
		After several phone calls, a sober Russian General realized that it was a planned test that the Russians were notified about months in advance, and he deactivated the launch alert and powered down all the strategic missiles that were being wound up for launch.
		The smaller 2004 FU162 is assumed to have burned up as a fireball ending with a smaller explosion, had it ventured into the Earth’s atmosphere.
	www.tonyrogers.com /news/asteroid_grazes_earth_2004.htm (705 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > Asteroid shaves past Earth's atmosphere
		Aug 24 2004, 08:20 PM Previously orbiting the Sun once a year in an orbit that ranged as far inside the Earth's orbit as outside, 2004 FU162 now has a nine-month orbit centred closer to Venus than the Earth.
		Aug 24 2004, 08:35 PM Close shave! I would not want to know if an asteroid was about to strike earth, I would rather carry on with my life and if one did I would not know about it anyway.
		Aug 26 2004, 12:10 AM I find it ironic that an asteroid that could have hit a city and killed millions of people and caused major distruction has the initials F.U. This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t20780.html (825 words)

	News Article: Closest Asteroid 2004 FU162 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		New orbital calculations indicate that the NEA called 2004 FU162 came the closest of any asteroid discovered by the Spaceguard Survey.
		From its brightness, this asteroid appears to be less than 10 m across, so that it would have exploded harmlessly in the upper atmosphere had it hit (to reach the surface, it would have required a diameter of about 100 m).
		FU162 was discovered on March 31, just hours before its closest approach, by the LINEAR survey system in New Mexico, which tracked it over a 44-minute period.
	128.102.32.13 /impact/news_detail.cfm?ID=145 (854 words)

	Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis Website
		Professor D.J. Scheeres and colleagues have simulated the effect of this close approach on the spin state of this asteroid, and their simulation has been imported into ORSA to fully visualize the evolution of the spin state of this asteroid during its 2029 Earth flyby.
		In this animation we show the path of the asteroid 2004 ST26 into the Earth/Moon system (using the orbit published on MPEC 2004-S55).
		In this animation, we show the path of the asteroid 2004 FU162 into the Earth/Moon/satellites system.
	orsa.sourceforge.net /atwork.html (1807 words)

	The Daily ACK: Close call...
		While it was pretty small at only 5 meters, and would probably have entirely burned up in the atmosphere depending on the composition, 2004 YD5 passed below geostationary orbit and was the second closest asteroid approach ever observed.
		The closest involved 2004 FU162 that flew by last March which we didn't even spot until August.
		2004 YD5 was discovered on December 21st by Stan Pope of the FMO project, but it was later calculated that closest approach had been two days earlier on December the 19th.
	www.babilim.co.uk /blog/2004/12/close-call.html (404 words)

	The Space Review: 2004 VD17, impact assessment scales, and a natural impact warning clearinghouse
		I have suggested on several occasions during the past two and a half years that a better—and more understandable—assessment of potential NEO hazards is provided by the ratio of the time interval spanned by the observations to the time remaining until the first possible impact date.
		For 2004 VD17 and the 2102 date, this “Purgatorio Ratio” (PR) is 0.014, increasing to 0.042 if one accepts the 2002 precovery observations and the 2102 threat continues to be valid.
		On the other hand, we do know for sure that 2004 VD17 will be within a million or two kilometers of the Earth on 2102 May 4, and that makes for a different situation.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/581/2 (1285 words)

	AstroGuard -- Comet/Asteroid/News Archive
		2004 YD5 was discovered two days after it passed 22,000 miles (36,000 km) above Earth on 19 December; its approach had gone undetected due to the glare of the Sun.
		The small asteroid 2004 FU162 was was discovered on 31 March just hours before its closest approach of only 4000 miles (6500 km) from Earth.
		2004 AS1 did not approach Earth closer than 7.5 million miles (12 million kilometers), but the incident highlighted the absence of procedure for dealing with a possible asteroid threat.
	www.astroguard.com /archive.htm (1210 words)

	2004 FU162 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The correct title of this article is 2004 FU It features superscript or subscript characters that are substituted or omitted because of technical limitations.
		The diameter is estimated to be about six metres, which means it would have burned up before striking the ground in the case of an impact.
		2004 FU is estimated to be only 6 meters in diameter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_FU162 (283 words)

	Filer's Files #36-2004
		YORK -- At 4:30 AM, on August 8, 2004, the observer got up to get some water and noticed a very bright light high up in the southeastern sky, which was much larger and brighter than any star or planet.
		PAUMA - On August 3, 2004, the witness was driving northeast on Highway 76, at 5:30 PM, when he saw a silver cylinder shaped object flying straight down, then level off, changing colors and shape.
		PORTLAND - Around 1 AM, on August 9, 2004, the witness was sitting outside smoking a cigarette when a small flash of light in the sky caught his eye.
	ufoinfo.com /filer/2004/ff0436.shtml (5238 words)

	Choosing New Heaven and New Earth when Bush was not Consumed
		The Father 2004 FH sits next to Jupiter, the reborn child 2004 FU162 sits next to Venus, with all four "on the mind" of the Virgin.
		On November 9, 2004 as the Sun passes through the zenith meridian of New York City and Hoag's Object as Saturn drops through the western horizon, there will be an occultation of Jupiter.
		At Venus is the Father asteroid 2004 FH, while the occultation is aligned with the New Heaven asteroid 2004 FU162.
	www.eyeofsiloam.com /Scream/2004FU162/NewHeaven-NewEarth.html (2563 words)

	Filer's Files #36-2004
		YORK -- At 4:30 AM, on August 8, 2004, the observer got up to get some water and noticed a very bright light high up in the southeastern sky, which was much larger and brighter than any star or planet.
		PAUMA - On August 3, 2004, the witness was driving northeast on Highway 76, at 5:30 PM, when he saw a silver cylinder shaped object flying straight down, then level off, changing colors and shape.
		PORTLAND - Around 1 AM, on August 9, 2004, the witness was sitting outside smoking a cigarette when a small flash of light in the sky caught his eye.
	www.ufoinfo.com /filer/2004/ff0436.shtml (5238 words)

	QRZ Forum » Printable Version of Topic » NEO Close Calls
		Asteroid 2004 FH, about 30 metres (100 feet) in diameter, passed approximately 43,000 kilometres (26,500 miles) above the Earth's surface (one-tenth of the distance to the Moon).
		While the time from detection to nearest approach may seem short, Asteroid 2004 FH is extremely small.
		Only two weeks later on March 31, 2004, meteoroid 2004 FU162 set a new record for closest recorded approach, passing Earth only 6,500 km (4,000 miles) away (nearly one-sixtieth of the distance to the Moon).
	www.qrz.com /ib-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=531e43b51393ee1a3839fc5646cf0d8b;act=Print;f=17;t=128747 (831 words)

	The closest object ever : Comets, meteors and asteroids : Astronomy & space : Fact files : Learning : National ...
		The closest recorded encounter between a natural object and the Earth took place on 31 March 2004.
		2004 FU is only 10 m across so if it had collided with the Earth it would almost certainly have exploded harmlessly in the upper atmosphere.
		Another close approach to the Earth occurred on 19 May 1996, when 1996 JA1 passed the Earth at a distance of 450,000 km or about as far away as the Moon. With a diameter of about 500 metres, this is probably the largest asteroidal object recorded so close to the Earth.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.297 (537 words)

	Druckversion - Erdnahe Asteroiden: 2004 FU162 passierte Erde in 6.500 Kilometer Höhe
		Druckversion - Erdnahe Asteroiden: 2004 FU162 passierte Erde in 6.500 Kilometer Höhe
		März 2004 ein ganz besonderer Rekord auf: Mit nur 6.500 Kilometern Abstand passierte der winzige Asteroid die Erde - näher als jeder andere bislang aufgespürte Brocken.
		Der winzige Asteroid 2004 FU162 flog Ende März in einer Entfernung von nur 6.500 Kilometern an der Erde vorbei.
	www.astronews.com /news/artikel/2004/08/0408-020p.html (403 words)

	comet and asteroid finder-maps
		Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), 2004 MN4, is predicted to pass near the Earth on 13 April 2029.
		The object, named 2004 YD5, passed over at an altitude of 36,000 kilometres, just under the orbits of geostationary satellites.
		On 13 January a 30m object, 2004 AS1, was predicted to have a one-in-four chance of hitting the planet within 36 hours.
	www.geocities.com /douglasrana/comet.htm (1919 words)

	Swing and a Miss for Asteroid -
		However, it was not initially submitted to a national astronomy organization for classification as a near-Earth asteroid because the telescopes had managed to track the object for only 44 minutes, and because it was deemed too small to be a threat, said Linear team member Jenifer Evans.
		The path 2004 FU162 took came nearly 21,800 miles closer to Earth than that of the previous record holder -- 2004 FH, spotted on March 18.
		He found that 2004 FU162's orbit was deflected by about 20 degrees because of the Earth's gravity.
	www.wired.com /science/space/news/2004/08/64752 (895 words)

	Filers Files #36 - 2004
		The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space.
		He reports, "I zoomed in on the day time image, and my hair stood up because it wasn't a bird or a star." Later on during the day, I went to soccer practice with my Dad and again we saw something white in the sky, that was very mysterious.
		Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/ California =96 Silver Cylinder Turns Into Black Saucer PAUMA =96 On August 3, 2004, the witness was driving northeast on Highway 76, at 5:30 PM, when he saw a silver cylinder shaped object flying straight down, then level off, changing colors and shape.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2004/aug/m26-001.shtml (5197 words)

	22 August '04 Major News about Minor Objects
		The circular states that “This object passed some 0.000086 AU (=13000 km) from the center of the earth on 2004 Mar. 31.65.” And the MPC Closest Approaches page, which had to add another decimal point to list this asteroid's distance, footnotes the distance as 12,900 km.
		Closest observed flyby: At the beginning of this report above, it is stated that the 2004 FU162 passage, at some 8,000 miles above Earth's surface, “is by far the closest ever observed astrometrically.” The distinction is important, because the title of “closest ever observed” probably belongs to the well documented Great Daylight Fireball of 1972.
		Update: JPL has posted 2004 QZ2, which was announced today in MPEC 2004-Q25 as discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona Friday morning and confirmed yesterday morning by Grasslands Observatory in Arizona and this morning by Sandlot Observatory in Kansas and Table Mountain Observatory in southern California.
	hohmanntransfer.com /mn/0408/22.htm (1690 words)

	NEO News: Closest Asteroid 2004 FU162 \| Pluto Today
		From its brightness, this asteroid appears to be less than 10 m across, so that it would have exploded harmlessly in the upper atmosphere had it hit.
		FU162 was discovered just hours before its closest approach by the LINEAR survey system in New Mexico, which tracked it over a 44-minute period.
		The fast-moving image was later identified in processing the images, but it was too late to obtain further observations since the asteroid exited from the dayside of the Earth.
	www.plutotoday.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=14880 (488 words)

	SkyTonight.com - News from SkyTonight - Astro News Briefs: August 23–29
		Now designated 2004 FU, the object was spotted only hours before its close brush by the LINEAR survey telescope in New Mexico.
		Despite these all-too-brief observations, dynamist Steven Chesley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) managed to derive a reliable orbit — and the near miss — that was reported August 22nd by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		With an estimated diameter of less than 10 meters, 2004 FU is small enough that it would have exploded harmlessly had it collided with Earth's atmosphere.
	skytonight.com /news/3309426.html?page=1&c=y (832 words)

	23 August '04 Major News about Minor Objects
		Cover: Small object 2004 NK8 was caught by Pepe Manteca at Begues Observatory in Spain on the evening of July 20th.
		Sunday's discovery MPEC 2004-Q22 states that 2004 FU162's “orbit is quite determinate and, given the exceptional nature of this close approach, the object is now receiving a designation.” There is a little more to the story than that.
		The most important new news today was that JPL this morning had posted 2004 FU162 with many low-rated “impact” (atmospheric event) solutions, the first of which comes almost exactly two years after its discovery (details below).
	www.hohmanntransfer.com /mn/0408/23.htm (1072 words)

	Paranormal News -- Your Source for UFO and Paranormal Related Information
		RENO — The observer was walking his dog at 10:08 PM, on August 5, 2004, when he saw a huge craft with two red lights flying over Eastern Reno not far from some commercial planes flying near Reno Tahoe Airport.
		PAUMA — On August 3, 2004, the witness was driving northeast on Highway 76, at 5:30 PM, when he saw a silver cylinder shaped object flying straight down, then level off, changing colors and shape.
		PORTLAND — Around 1 AM, on August 9, 2004, the witness was sitting outside smoking a cigarette when a small flash of light in the sky caught his eye.
	www.paranormalnews.com /eyefriendly.asp?articleID=1041 (4979 words)

	News in Science - By Toutatis, the sky is falling - 28/09/2004
		Earlier this year a small asteroid about six metres in diameter, called 2004 FU162, passed between the Earth and Moon, just 6,500 kilometres above the Earth.
		The next large asteroid to pass close to the Earth this year will be called 2004 RZ164.
		It is up to one kilometre long and will pass Earth at a distance seven times that of the Moon.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/2004/1203122.htm (557 words)

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