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~HOUNDOG~
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So I have been hearin. Just a snippet here and a snippet there.
Anyone know what's up?
Anyone know what's up?
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~HOUNDOG~
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By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space. A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019, although the uncertainties are large.
Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value.
From its brightness astronomers estimate it is about 2km wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.
Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, told BBC News Online that "this asteroid has now become the most threatening object in the short history of asteroid detection".
Researchers estimate that on 1 February 2019 its impact velocity on the Earth would be 28km a second - enough to wipe out a continent and cause global climate changes
There are only..
9358
days left until impact
BBC News Online science editor
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space. A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019, although the uncertainties are large.
Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value.
From its brightness astronomers estimate it is about 2km wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.
Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, told BBC News Online that "this asteroid has now become the most threatening object in the short history of asteroid detection".
Researchers estimate that on 1 February 2019 its impact velocity on the Earth would be 28km a second - enough to wipe out a continent and cause global climate changes
There are only..
9358
days left until impact
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~HOUNDOG~
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Another one.
A football-pitch-sized asteroid capable of razing a major city came within a whisker of hitting the Earth on June 14, but was only spotted three days later, scientists said Thursday.
Asteroid 2002 MN, estimated at up to 120 metres (yards) long, hurtled by the Earth at a distance of 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), well within the orbit of the Moon and just a hair's breadth in galactic terms. It is the closest recorded near-miss by any asteroid, with the exception of a 10-metre (33-feet) rock, 1994 XM1, which approached within 105,000 kilometers (65,000) miles on December 9, 1994, they said.
A football-pitch-sized asteroid capable of razing a major city came within a whisker of hitting the Earth on June 14, but was only spotted three days later, scientists said Thursday.
Asteroid 2002 MN, estimated at up to 120 metres (yards) long, hurtled by the Earth at a distance of 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), well within the orbit of the Moon and just a hair's breadth in galactic terms. It is the closest recorded near-miss by any asteroid, with the exception of a 10-metre (33-feet) rock, 1994 XM1, which approached within 105,000 kilometers (65,000) miles on December 9, 1994, they said.
Fast Twitch Fiber
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Damn, I need to get laid one last time before we all die. Any ladies want to help me out?
BTW... If this rock doesn't destroy us then the Sun will go supernova in about another 4 billion years. Everything will be gone then. I'm scared.
BTW... If this rock doesn't destroy us then the Sun will go supernova in about another 4 billion years. Everything will be gone then. I'm scared.
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~HOUNDOG~
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They could launch 100 titan ICBM's, 400 Minuteman ICBM's, 200 Poseidon ICBM's and 100 Peacekeeper MX ICBM's and then get the russian to launch another 800 ICBM's and the French and brits another 100. That should take care of it,that would be over 10,000 megatons of human nuclear fury.
show the link houndog.....something on the bbc website said this (dated april 2002)
Asteroid 2002 EM7, which passed close by the Earth on 8 March this year, was one such object and was only detected after it crossed Earth's orbit to appear briefly in the night sky, before it crossed back into the glare of the Sun. About 550 similar asteroids are known.
Asteroid 2002 EM7, which passed close by the Earth on 8 March this year, was one such object and was only detected after it crossed Earth's orbit to appear briefly in the night sky, before it crossed back into the glare of the Sun. About 550 similar asteroids are known.
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Warik
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Good thing we aren't wasting money on shit like the space program. There's no point to that anyway.
By the way, when's the war with Iraq starting? Why are we cluttering up the news with this asteroid sci-fi mumbo jumbo instead of important stuff like attacking a country ruled by a non-issue and claiming it's in the interests of freedom?
I love this planet. No matter how bad things get, its population will never cease to amuse me.
-Warik
By the way, when's the war with Iraq starting? Why are we cluttering up the news with this asteroid sci-fi mumbo jumbo instead of important stuff like attacking a country ruled by a non-issue and claiming it's in the interests of freedom?
I love this planet. No matter how bad things get, its population will never cease to amuse me.
-Warik
collegiateLifter
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lol. at first I thought it a said "A steroid is going to kill us all."
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HULKSTER
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collegiateLifter said:
That's another lie, just like the one that steroids killed Lyle Alzado.
Big Johnson
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Hound, I'm impressed. You actually just came up with a very good way for the globe to disarm its nuclear arsenal; launch it at a possible celestial threat and develope a plan B if it doesn't do the trick.
I'd write your congressman. Someone could build a political career on this, especially in one of the southern states.
I'd write your congressman. Someone could build a political career on this, especially in one of the southern states.
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