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|accessdate=2007-12-28| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071229233152/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news153.html| archivedate= 29 December 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> The best fit trajectory had the asteroid passing within 21,000 km of Mars and only 16,000 km from the moon [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]].<ref name="Horizons1223">{{cite web |url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5.txt |title=Horizons Archive Mars/Earth 2003/2008 |accessdate=2007-12-23}} (Soln.date: 2007-Dec-23)</ref> The pre-discovery observations were located by Andy Puckett in the archive of the [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey]] II at the [[Apache Point Observatory]]. |
|accessdate=2007-12-28| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071229233152/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news153.html| archivedate= 29 December 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> The best fit trajectory had the asteroid passing within 21,000 km of Mars and only 16,000 km from the moon [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]].<ref name="Horizons1223">{{cite web |url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5.txt |title=Horizons Archive Mars/Earth 2003/2008 |accessdate=2007-12-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6CnJD3EIC?url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5.txt |archivedate=2012-12-10 |df= }} (Soln.date: 2007-Dec-23)</ref> The pre-discovery observations were located by Andy Puckett in the archive of the [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey]] II at the [[Apache Point Observatory]]. |
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* January 2, 2008: NASA scientists revised the probability of an impact with Mars to 1-in-28 after more observations were reported by Bill Ryan with the 2.4-meter telescope at New Mexico Tech's [[Magdalena Ridge Observatory]]. The uncertainty region was reduced to roughly 200,000 km and still intersected Mars, but the most likely path moved a little farther away from the planet.<ref name="NEO0102">{{cite web |
* January 2, 2008: NASA scientists revised the probability of an impact with Mars to 1-in-28 after more observations were reported by Bill Ryan with the 2.4-meter telescope at New Mexico Tech's [[Magdalena Ridge Observatory]]. The uncertainty region was reduced to roughly 200,000 km and still intersected Mars, but the most likely path moved a little farther away from the planet.<ref name="NEO0102">{{cite web |
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{{mp|2007 WD|5}} is roughly the size of the [[cometary]] object that caused the [[Tunguska event]] in 1908, in remote central [[Siberia]], Russia. Due to the Earth's greater gravity, an impact with the power of Tunguska is expected to occur once every few hundred years.<ref name="Tunguska">{{cite web |
{{mp|2007 WD|5}} is roughly the size of the [[cometary]] object that caused the [[Tunguska event]] in 1908, in remote central [[Siberia]], Russia. Due to the Earth's greater gravity, an impact with the power of Tunguska is expected to occur once every few hundred years.<ref name="Tunguska">{{cite web |
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}}</ref> Since Mars has only 1/10 the mass to attract objects, these types of impacts occur roughly every one thousand years on Mars.<ref name="NASA_071221">{{cite web |
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== Future encounters == |
== Future encounters == |
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In July 2003, the asteroid passed within 0.012 AU of Mars.<ref name="Mars2003">{{cite web |url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5-0109.txt |title=Horizons Output Mars/Earth 2003/2008 |accessdate=2008-01-09}} (Soln.date: 2008-Jan-09)</ref> The exact fate of {{mp|2007 WD|5}} following the January 2008 Mars encounter is unknown although it likely passed Mars at a distance of 6.5 Mars radii. Mars, unlike [[Jupiter]], is not big enough to eject the asteroid from the Solar System, however, the gravitation effect from the encounter on the asteroid's trajectory is uncertain and the asteroid is currently considered '[[Lost minor planet|lost]]'.<ref name="planetaryorgblog"/> Assuming {{mp|2007 WD|5}} passed Mars safely, its low inclination to the [[ecliptic]] of only 2.3 degrees and high [[Orbital eccentricity|eccentricity]] of 0.6 could cause it to swing close to Mars or Earth for years or decades into the future. |
In July 2003, the asteroid passed within 0.012 AU of Mars.<ref name="Mars2003">{{cite web |url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5-0109.txt |title=Horizons Output Mars/Earth 2003/2008 |accessdate=2008-01-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6CnJDT2Gm?url=http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/2007WD5-0109.txt |archivedate=2012-12-10 |df= }} (Soln.date: 2008-Jan-09)</ref> The exact fate of {{mp|2007 WD|5}} following the January 2008 Mars encounter is unknown although it likely passed Mars at a distance of 6.5 Mars radii. Mars, unlike [[Jupiter]], is not big enough to eject the asteroid from the Solar System, however, the gravitation effect from the encounter on the asteroid's trajectory is uncertain and the asteroid is currently considered '[[Lost minor planet|lost]]'.<ref name="planetaryorgblog"/> Assuming {{mp|2007 WD|5}} passed Mars safely, its low inclination to the [[ecliptic]] of only 2.3 degrees and high [[Orbital eccentricity|eccentricity]] of 0.6 could cause it to swing close to Mars or Earth for years or decades into the future. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060616011442/http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/13jun_lunarsporadic.htm A Meteoroid Hits the Moon] (25 cm wide) on May 2, 2006 |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060616011442/http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/13jun_lunarsporadic.htm A Meteoroid Hits the Moon] (25 cm wide) on May 2, 2006 |
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* [http://orbitsimulator.com/gravity/images/MarsDec21.GIF Gravity Simulator Diagram of Mars Passage] (based on December 23 orbital elements) |
* [http://orbitsimulator.com/gravity/images/MarsDec21.GIF Gravity Simulator Diagram of Mars Passage] (based on December 23 orbital elements) |
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* [http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/tekton/crater_c.html Computing Crater Size from Projectile Diameter] (H. Jay Melosh and Ross A. Beyer) |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117083517/http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/tekton/crater_c.html Computing Crater Size from Projectile Diameter] (H. Jay Melosh and Ross A. Beyer) |
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* [http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/ Solar System Collisions] (Send an asteroid or comet hurtling toward your favorite planet!) |
* [http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/ Solar System Collisions] (Send an asteroid or comet hurtling toward your favorite planet!) |
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* [http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200712281 Science Friday Podcast with Don Yeomans] (2007-12-28) |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080101094420/http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200712281 Science Friday Podcast with Don Yeomans] (2007-12-28) |
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* [http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/01/03/possible-asteroid-strike-on-mars-scientific-paydirt/ Possible Asteroid Strike on Mars: Scientific Paydirt] (2008-01-03) |
* [http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/01/03/possible-asteroid-strike-on-mars-scientific-paydirt/ Possible Asteroid Strike on Mars: Scientific Paydirt] (2008-01-03) |
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Revision as of 04:13, 26 January 2018
| Discovery Perihelion | 0.991120 AU (148.2694 Gm) | |
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| 2.4600 AU (368.01 Gm) | ||
| Eccentricity | 0.59711 | |
| 3.86 yr (1409.3 d) | ||
Average orbital speed | 12.5 km/s (27,900 mph)[3] | |
| 49.267° | ||
| 0° 15m 19.62s /day | ||
| Inclination | 2.4276° | |
| 68.491° | ||
| 309.622° | ||
| Earth MOID | 0.0260299 AU (3.89402 Gm) | |
| Physical characteristics | ||
| Dimensions | 50 m (160 ft)[4][5] | |
| 24.3 | ||
2007 WD5 is an
lost asteroids).[8]
Discovery
The asteroid was discovered on November 20, 2007 by Andrea BoattiniTucson, Arizona, United States, using a 1.5-meter telescope.[4] It was discovered in the constellation Taurus at an apparent magnitude of +20. This is about 400,000 times fainter than most people can see with the naked eye on a dark night far from city lights.[9] It was discovered nineteen days after passing near the Earth. By the time it arrived at Mars it had an apparent magnitude of roughly +26 and therefore appeared over 100x fainter than at the time of discovery.[10]
Mars encounter: chance of impact
Timeline of observations and events
- November 1, 2007: Nineteen days before its discovery, this small asteroid passed within 7.5 million km (5 million miles or 0.0476 AU) of the Earth.[4]
- November 20, 2007: The asteroid was first discovered by Andrea Boattini of the Catalina Sky Survey.[9]
- December 21, 2007: 2007 WD5 was approximately halfway between Earth and Mars traveling at 27,900 mph (44,900 km/h). It was estimated by NASA's Near Earth Object Program (NEOP) to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars on January 30, 2008 at approximately 10:55 UT.[4] It was thought it would pass about 50,000 km (0.00034AU) from Mars.
- December 28, 2007: NASA scientists at the Near-Earth Object program office at JPL announced they had found 2007 WD5 in 3 precovery images from November 8, 2007. The refined orbit placed the odds of a Mars impact at 1-in-25. The uncertainty region was reduced from 1 million km to roughly 400,000 km.[6] The best fit trajectory had the asteroid passing within 21,000 km of Mars and only 16,000 km from the moon Deimos.[11] The pre-discovery observations were located by Andy Puckett in the archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II at the Apache Point Observatory.
- January 2, 2008: NASA scientists revised the probability of an impact with Mars to 1-in-28 after more observations were reported by Bill Ryan with the 2.4-meter telescope at New Mexico Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory. The uncertainty region was reduced to roughly 200,000 km and still intersected Mars, but the most likely path moved a little farther away from the planet.[12]
- January 8, 2008: NASA scientists revised the probability of an impact with Mars to 1-in-40 after refinements to the analysis of the Sloan precovery observations and observations with the 3.5 meter telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. The uncertainty region was reduced by a factor of 3.[13]
- January 9, 2008: Following several new observations, NASA reduced the uncertainty region and effectively ruled out a Mars collision. The chance of collision became only 1-in-10,000 (0.01%).UTC the asteroid passed about 26,000 km (0.00017AU)[14]from the planet's center (about 7 Mars radii from the surface). Analyses show there is no possibility of an impact with either Mars or Earth in the next century.
This trend of increasing probability of impact followed by a dramatic decrease is typical as uncertainties are gradually reduced.[7] In December 2004, a similar trend was observed with 99942 Apophis where the predicted probability of impact with Earth in 2029 at one point reached as high as 2.7%.
Estimates of resulting impact
If the asteroid had collided with Mars, it would have hit with a velocity of about 13.5 km/s (8.4 miles per second), and would have produced an explosion equivalent to about 3
Opportunity rover.[9]
2007 WD5 is roughly the size of the
cometary object that caused the Tunguska event in 1908, in remote central Siberia, Russia. Due to the Earth's greater gravity, an impact with the power of Tunguska is expected to occur once every few hundred years.[16] Since Mars has only 1/10 the mass to attract objects, these types of impacts occur roughly every one thousand years on Mars.[3]
Future encounters
In July 2003, the asteroid passed within 0.012 AU of Mars.[14] The exact fate of 2007 WD5 following the January 2008 Mars encounter is unknown although it likely passed Mars at a distance of 6.5 Mars radii. Mars, unlike Jupiter, is not big enough to eject the asteroid from the Solar System, however, the gravitation effect from the encounter on the asteroid's trajectory is uncertain and the asteroid is currently considered 'lost'.[8] Assuming 2007 WD5 passed Mars safely, its low inclination to the ecliptic of only 2.3 degrees and high eccentricity of 0.6 could cause it to swing close to Mars or Earth for years or decades into the future.
See also
- C/2013 A1- Comet that passed extremely close to Mars on 19 October 2014
- Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 - Jupiter impact 1994
References
- ^ a b c "2007 WD5". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 2007 WD5" (2008-01-09 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near Mars". NASA/JPL. 2007-12-21. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e Steve Chesley; Paul Chodas (December 21, 2007). "Recently Discovered Asteroid Could Hit Mars in January". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ a b Don Yeomans; Paul Chodas; Steve Chesley (December 28, 2007). "Mars Impact Probability Increases to 4 Percent". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Steve Chesley; Paul Chodas; Don Yeomans (January 9, 2008). "2007 WD5 Mars Collision Effectively Ruled Out - Impact Odds now 1 in 10,000". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on 11 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Lakdawalla, Emily (February 4, 2008). "WD5 most likely missed Mars, but we may never know". Archived from the original on 8 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d Lori Stiles, University Communications (December 21, 2007). "Catalina Sky Survey Discovers Space Rock That Could Hit Mars". The University of Arizona. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ Horizons Brightness Difference between 11-20-07 and 01-30-08: (5th root of 100) ^ (@marsJan30th APmag 25.9 - DiscoveryNov20th APmag 20.2) = 190x
- ^ "Horizons Archive Mars/Earth 2003/2008". Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) (Soln.date: 2007-Dec-23) - ^ Don Yeomans; Paul Chodas; Steve Chesley (January 2, 2008). "New Observations Slightly Decrease Mars Impact Probability". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on 5 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ Steve Chesley; Paul Chodas; Don Yeomans (January 8, 2008). "Mars Impact Seems Less Likely". NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Horizons Output Mars/Earth 2003/2008". Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) (Soln.date: 2008-Jan-09) - ^ Johnson Jr., John (2007-12-21). "Asteroid on track for possible Mars hit". Science. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 22 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ David Morrison (2007-12-21). "Tunguska Revision, and a Possible NEA Impact on Mars". Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards (NASA). Archived from the original on 2 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)
External links
- Near Earth Object Program (at NASA.gov)
- A Meteoroid Hits the Moon (25 cm wide) on May 2, 2006
- Gravity Simulator Diagram of Mars Passage (based on December 23 orbital elements)
- Computing Crater Size from Projectile Diameter (H. Jay Melosh and Ross A. Beyer)
- Solar System Collisions (Send an asteroid or comet hurtling toward your favorite planet!)
- Science Friday Podcast with Don Yeomans (2007-12-28)
- Possible Asteroid Strike on Mars: Scientific Paydirt (2008-01-03)
- 2007 WD5 at the JPL Small-Body Database
