Small Asteroid inbound 1 Dec 2020

[MisterVeritis]

An "unknown space mass has been dubbed "2020 SO," and is set to fly by our planet at an extremely close, but safe, distance of 31,605 miles at 3:50 AM ET December 1.
The object was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii back in September, and initially, it was believed to be an asteroid measuring an estimated 15-33 feet across."

https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/30/myste...sa-december-1/


Stony asteroids with a diameter of 4 meters (13 ft) enter Earth's atmosphere about once a year.^[19] Asteroids with a diameter of 7 meters enter the atmosphere about every 5 years with as much kinetic energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (approximately 16 kilotons of TNT), but the air burst is reduced to just 5 kilotons.^[19] These ordinarily explode in the upper atmosphere and most or all of the solids are vaporized.^[22] However, asteroids with a diameter of 20 m (66 ft), and which strike Earth approximately twice every century, produce more powerful airbursts. The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be about 20 m in diameter with an airburst of around 500 kilotons, an explosion 30 times the one over Hiroshima.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event

[Peter1469]

From the article:

However, scientists at NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) soon began to postulate it wasn't an asteroid or even a "natural body" at all.

Instead, CNEOS director Paul Chodas is on record saying he believes the object is the Centaur rocket booster from NASA's failed Surveyor 2 lunar mission ... which launched way back on September 20, 1966.

[Tahuyaman]

An "unknown space mass has been dubbed "2020 SO," and is set to fly by our planet at an extremely close, but safe, distance of 31,605 miles at 3:50 AM ET December 1.
The object was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii back in September, and initially, it was believed to be an asteroid measuring an estimated 15-33 feet across."

https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/30/myste...sa-december-1/


Stony asteroids with a diameter of 4 meters (13 ft) enter Earth's atmosphere about once a year.^[19] Asteroids with a diameter of 7 meters enter the atmosphere about every 5 years with as much kinetic energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (approximately 16 kilotons of TNT), but the air burst is reduced to just 5 kilotons.^[19] These ordinarily explode in the upper atmosphere and most or all of the solids are vaporized.^[22] However, asteroids with a diameter of 20 m (66 ft), and which strike Earth approximately twice every century, produce more powerful airbursts. The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to be about 20 m in diameter with an airburst of around 500 kilotons, an explosion 30 times the one over Hiroshima.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event

Apparently this asteroid is actually a 1960’s era depleted rocket which is just floating in space.

[carolina73]

Apparently this asteroid is actually a 1960’s era depleted rocket which is just floating in space.

They found Major Tom?

[Standing Wolf]

It's the Satellite of Love!!

[MisterVeritis]

Apparently this asteroid is actually a 1960’s era depleted rocket which is just floating in space.

Yep.