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2017 VR12: Asteroid That Could Be Bigger Than Empire State Building Is About to Pass by Earth
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| 3/2/18 at 7:14
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Posted on 03/02/2018 3:24:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:24:26 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:28:08 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: BenLurkin
I thought it was going say it would hit the Empire State Building. Darn.
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:30:02 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Seruzawa
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:32:14 PM PST
by
Eddie01
To: BenLurkin
How long before bpearthwatch starts claims that it is causing earthquakes and such?
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:40:44 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: BenLurkin
And what if it were calculated to pass at a distance of 50 miles and be pulled into the earth’s gravitational field. What would we do?
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:45:36 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: luvbach1
“And what if it were calculated to pass at a distance of 50 miles and be pulled into the earths gravitational field. What would we do?”
Anything you wanted.
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:49:24 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:49:50 PM PST
by
avenir
("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
To: luvbach1
Prepare to meet my Maker.
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:50:27 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: BenLurkin
This is a zero.
To: BenLurkin
Can we deflect it somehow, so that it knocks Californication into Antarctica? (Just kidding, Robinsons, and Californish Freepers!!!)
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posted on
03/02/2018 3:56:25 PM PST
by
Songcraft
("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
To: DuncanWaring
If we knew it’s trajectory, couldn’t we launch a nuke-armed space vehicle and intercept it before it reached earth’s gravitational field?
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posted on
03/02/2018 4:00:52 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: luvbach1
Correction: If we knew its trajectory, couldnt we launch a nuke-armed space vehicle and intercept it before it reached earths gravitational field?
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posted on
03/02/2018 4:02:09 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: BenLurkin
this is all part of the bomb cyclone
To: luvbach1
And what if it were calculated to pass at a distance of 50 miles and be pulled into the earths gravitational field. What would we do? Watch it go by! 50 miles would be the closest approach of its hyperbolic orbit. It would have to graze the atmosphere to lose speed and fall to the surface.
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posted on
03/02/2018 4:22:42 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: BenLurkin
Women and children to be unaffected the most!
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posted on
03/02/2018 4:41:33 PM PST
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: luvbach1
There has been talk of doing that.
Seems fairly straightforward; we (mankind) have intercepted comets “in the wild” on at least two occasions that I know of.
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posted on
03/02/2018 5:17:57 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: BenLurkin
But, the question is, “Is it bigger than Broward County?”
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posted on
03/02/2018 5:19:55 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
To: BenLurkin
Hey, where’s all the asteroid miners around here. Drop off the iron ore on the next pass.
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posted on
03/02/2018 5:42:56 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: dr_lew
Heh! I guess I misunderestimated how close that would be! It would be grazing the top of the Mesosphere ( where meteors burn up ... ) so you sure wouldn’t want it any closer.
Also, its predicted speed relative to earth during the encounter is 4 miles/sec, which is somewhat less than low-earth-orbit speed. This means to have a close approach, with this initial incoming speed, ( disregarding the atmosphere ) of 50 miles, its motion would be significantly affected by the earth, even though hyperbolic. So, this would be really really really close!
Maybe if you had said 500 miles, I would have been on a little firmer ground :-)
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posted on
03/02/2018 5:49:51 PM PST
by
dr_lew
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