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Asteroid Countdown Clock

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This is a countdown clock made with the Adafruit Pro Trinket 5V 16MHz, Adafruit DS3231 Precision RTC Breakout, and 2x Adafruit 0.56" 4-Digit 7-Segment Display w/I2C Backpack - Blue.

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Schematic created by Adafruit

 

The clock is set to countdown to November 2, 2020 at 12AM. This is the beginning of a three day period in which there is a 1 in 240 chance that Near Earth Object 2018 VP1 could potentially impact the Earth.

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https//cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2018%20VP1

 

 

https://learn.adafruit.com/mindfulness-clock-of-doom

  • in reply to cstanton

    The website is https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

     

    There might be issues with viewing the provided info from some countries due to restrictions.

     

    The website provides downloadable CSV and Excel links.

     

    The answer is yes. It can be done with Python and a Raspberry Pi

  • > This is the beginning of a three day period in which there is a 1 in 240 chance that Near Earth Object 2018 VP1 could potentially impact the Earth.

     

    I wonder if there's a regularly updated website with this information on that could be scraped?

     

    Then this could be a "Days since last near-miss asteroid event" counter that's automatically updated image

  • in reply to dubbie

    Thank you for compliment.  The date that the clock is set to count down to is also significant in that it was the date of the American Presidential Election before it was changed to the next day.

     

    The object is not very large (2 meters) and should hopefully break up in the atmosphere, perhaps in a similar fashion as the Chelyabinsk meteor that occurred on February 15, 2013. That object was reported to be much larger at 20 meters.

     

    With all of the events that have already occurred this year, Christmas is a very pleasant thought. I hope that humanity can keep it together long enough.

  • A cheery thought!. Nice count down clock though. It made me think maybe I could make one to count-down the seconds to Christmas as we have now passed the longest day (in the UK anyway) and it's all downhill from now.

     

    Dubbie