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A City Block-Sized Asteroid Will Shoot Past Earth Tonight
(Thursday night June 14, 2012)
Business Insider ^
| Jun. 14, 2012, 12:14 PM
| Dina Spector
Posted on 06/15/2012 5:45:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Attention space enthusiasts: an asteroid the "size of a city block" will whip past Earth tonight, Space.com's MIke Wall reports.
The asteroid was discovered earlier this week by astronomers at an Australian observatory.
Although the 1,650-foot wide space rock, which will pass within 3.35 million miles of Earth, is large enough and comes close enough to our planet to be considered a hazard, astronomers say there's nothing to worry about.
If it passes within range to be caught on camera, you'll be able to watch the live event safely from you computer screens through the Slooh Space Camera, starting at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: asteroid; catastrophism
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Guess it did miss us....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
WOW!! That was close. You could almost feel the wind from that one; after all it was only 3.35 million miles away.
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:51:40 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The link given at the top of the thread shows we still have an hour before it ‘passes’.
Wallenda is going to walk a tightwire over Niagra Falls at 8pm (CST) as well.
Oh, darn, can’t decide which to watch.
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:52:48 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; bd476
I don't check my mail every day.
Went to bed early last night to get up real early this morning to see Lou Gertsner (IBM exec that saved the company) on CNBC Squawk Box.
So thanks for the note Blam,...I might not have slept well if I had known about this asteroid.
Someday on of these rocks is gonna smack us....and it won't be pretty.
That or a volcano is gonna spew things in the air and chill the planet again.
Then out here we have the lovely threat of earthquakes.....
Damn...life is hazardous.
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:53:58 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: UCANSEE2
I was a bit late posting this so go for the scene over Niagra Falls.
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:56:46 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Dang! It looks like we’re still going to have to listen to the loonies whine about “global warming” and Barry whine about reporters who don’t sing the same tune that the rest of the “reporters” in the White House “Correspondents” Glee Club are singing.
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:58:25 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
To: doc1019
Well they say there are 5,000 out there as candidates to come our way,...
So isn't that exciting...?
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posted on
06/15/2012 5:58:47 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:00:09 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We live in a violent solar system.Take a look at the face of the moon,that’s Earth minus the effects of erosion.
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:01:31 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just the thought puts my knickers in a twist. ;-)
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:02:30 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; lightman; SF_Redux; Clint N. Suhks; advertising guy; Fudd Fan; Biggirl; ...
_...
(Bookmark for when we’re toast...)
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:03:18 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Who says Lou Gerstner saved IBM? Lou Gerstner?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:10:51 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It will still be blamed on Anthropogenic Global Warming - or George W Bush.
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:11:46 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
To: UCANSEE2
OMG the asteroid just knocked Wallenda off his cable! /j
To: carriage_hill
What?
Where?
whew! Close call!
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:50:11 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: bytesmith
I was there before he showed....I bailed and took all my money.
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posted on
06/15/2012 6:55:16 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We are all going to die.......
Wait we all lived.. Yeah! Next.
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posted on
06/15/2012 7:07:50 PM PDT
by
DYngbld
(I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
To: bigbob
SO long as it doesn’t “catcha on the flip flop”.
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posted on
06/15/2012 7:12:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Farmer Dean
We live in a violent solar system.Take a look at the face of the moon,that’s Earth minus the effects of erosion.
A friend of mine is in the water softener business. He told
me once that there is a large circular area in Iowa that
has naturally soft water. It seems that years ago a meteor
blew out a large crater and gradually it filled back in with
soil only. All the minerals are gone that harden ground water!
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posted on
06/15/2012 7:19:09 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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