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Asteroid or Meteoroid? (Should 2011 MD get plutoed?)[edit]

JPL calls this an Apollo asteroid, but if the concensus is that it would burn up in the atmosphere, isn't it logically a meteoroid then? — Eoghanacht ^talk 20:41, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Logically I think so. Note that oceanic storms are named according to their highest intensity (Hurricane Katrina not Tropical Storm Katrina). Marcus Qwertyus 20:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anything 1-meter in diameter and larger is technically an asteroid. If it entered the atmosphere the airburst would likely produce a handful of fragments that would reach the ground at terminal velocity. 90% of it would burn up in the atmosphere. -- Kheider (talk) 13:29, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So what happened on the day ?[edit]

It would be very interesting to know how close it actually passed, photos when very close, size updates, etc. Also, how the orbit changed & future encounters. SombreGreenbul (talk) 10:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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