Posted on 03/03/2012 9:46:28 PM PST by LibWhacker
...IOW, this asteroid is approximately EIGHT times (at least twice in each of three dimensions) more massive than the Barringer object that made Meteor/Barringer Crater — enough to make a crater eight times the size. If it hit in, say, Chicago, the crater would be roughly two miles across (sq root of 8, 2.828427125 times .75 miles), and the shock wave would knock down everything else for many miles in all directions.
Of course, we’d better not take my word for it...
Interesting read. Same technology could be used to pull dead satellites out of orbit.
Based on what I have read we’ll probably get hit with an asteroid that we won’t see coming before we ever develop any technology to deal them.
No worries. The target is assured.
Who sucks more than the people in Washinton D.C.?
>>I am not a physicist, but seems to me a nuke blast in deep space does not have the blast affects one would have in an atmospheric enviornment as there is no atmosphere to compress. Perhaps the energy would nudge the rock into another orbit of the sun but I dont think it would pulverize it.
True, without an atmosphere, most of the destructiveness of the missile will be radiation and heat unless the meteor is impacted and the warhead buries itself a bit. But the warhead would have to be hardened to do this, all of which is doable.
Can you imagine the Cold War arms race being considered the savior of humanity on this score? This is precisely why the meteor/comet impact issue gets soft pedaled in the MSM. Were it not for comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slamming into Jupiter in 1989, we’d still be blithely awaiting a klondiking by the Gods.
bttt
Yes, I’m aware that ICBMs can’t get into orbit. That is why I was speculating that an ICBM would have to hit the rock awfully low, actually in our atmosphere, and I was wondering what repercussions you’d get from that. It’s probably not a good scenario!
EMP would blow out a ton of electronics for one.
Hey, folks. Don't worry about it. This stuff isn't rocket science or anything ... oh. wait. it is.
Never mind.
Hot fudge Fridae?
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You sent shivers up my back! Stop that! ;o)
You need to say that with little quotie hand gestures:
END TIMES PING LIST PING
more festivities evidently looming . . .
More sobering asteroid thing than usual. Projected to fly by the earth at the distance of Google earth’s satellites.
At least I didn’t say “Hammerfall.”
If it were going to impact the ocean, the ocean could be predeformed so as to create a pocket for it to be absorbed into as it struck, such that the effects of a tidal wave forming would be greatly diminished.
That is true and the tech can be used for dead satellites. The planet is in a middle of a shooting gallery asteroids and comets coming at all directions.NASA has been falling behind their goal in detecting rocks from space.Congress has mandated that NASA discover 90 percent of all near-Earth objects 140 meters in diameter or greater by 2020. The most alarming thing about this is the United States is the only country that currently has an operating survey/detection program.
Or second defense scenario, paste holographic images of Michelle Obama’s face in front of it, and it will disintegrate into dust.
Of possible interest pings..
If it were going to impact the ocean, the ocean could be predeformed so as to create a pocket for it to be absorbed into as it struck, such that the effects of a tidal wave forming would be greatly diminished.
Followed by the opposite (real) Fast Freddie to move the water the other way.
I’m already guilty of hoping it hits a certain neighborhood on planet Earth.
;’)
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