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expensive communications and weather satellites that ring around us in geosynchronous orbit

no possibility of an Earth impact

altitude of 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles). That is some 8000 km (5000 miles) inside the ring of geosynchronous satellites

if an asteroid the size of 2012 DA14 fell to Earth, the impact effect would be similar to the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia

the K-T event that caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid about 10 km (6 mi) in diameter

no danger to the ISS crew and apparently they won’t have any chance to observe it.

ISS is not positioned right for observations

“No NASA space-based assets will be making measurements

asteroid is moving to fast

radar astronomers do plan to take images around eight hours after the flyby using the Goldstone antenna in California’s Mojave Desert

2012 DA 14

whiz past Earth later today, (Feb.15

the trajectory of the Russian meteorite was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object