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Gorgeous video of the DA14 asteroid flying by

submitted by grinter

1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago

"Asteroid 2012 DA 14 passed very close to the Earth on February 16th 2013, local time. Australians, and Western Australians in particular were in a great position to observe the asteroid, being on the night side of Earth as it flew by.

I captured this footage starting 3.24 am from a dark sky site 350 km east of Perth. Just after camera rolling, a beautiful meteor burned across the sky, and amazingly, passed right through my camera's field of view, lingering while the debris train swept up and out of view. In addition, the sky was also very busy swarming with countless man made satellites. The asteroid is the bright object at left moving down the screen.

The scene was captured at 50 mm, iso 8000, f/2.2, 8 second shutter, 9 second intervals."

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Can we get that 500X slower?

I think you are looking at the wrong thing. DA14 starts at the upper left, and then moves downward. The fast streak is an object that actually hit the atmosphere.

Can we get that 500X slower?

Ah, I did not see those UFOs the first couple of times.

I think you are looking at the wrong thing. DA14 starts at the upper left, and then moves downward. The fast streak is an object that actually hit the atmosphere.

*timeshift

Adding video to channels (Timeshift) - requested by brycewi19.

Great coincidence of different objects going overhead! (If I tried that, it would just be a bunch of aircraft going to the 4 international airports nearby.)

I see it!
I see the white dot moving across the field of other white dots.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by mintbbb.

BicycleRepairMan

Just FYI, each of the 10-20 thousand dots are lumps of mass, so massive in size that they each fuse millions of tons of hydrogen into helium every second, releasing, every second, each of the 10-20 thousand of them, more energy than has, or probably ever will be, used by every human being, combined. Thats MILLIONS of Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs going off, every second, right in front of your eyes. In the foreground, Manmade objects are in constant freefall towards earth, missing only because they are brilliantly engineered and built to travel at extreme speeds. While all thats happening, a rock the size of an office building sails by. If it had hit us, it could easily have wiped out a medium sized country and collapsed the global economy. So yeah.. white dots.

I see it!
I see the white dot moving across the field of other white dots.

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