Posted on 03/03/2012 9:46:28 PM PST by LibWhacker
” at least yer gonna go clean :) “
pretty sure the vissual will spoil that
Good time to sell Weight Watchers short! And buy McDonalds, Burger King, and Sara Lee!
And Svedka!
Hot fudge Fridae? The odds it will miss the Earth are millions to one...
Figure out how to mine it. There shouldn’t be any endangered slugs to get in our way.
NASA claims a cumulative probability of collision over the next 100 years at 0.022% and doesn’t publish any probabilities prior to 2020.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2012da14.html
Analysis based on 93 observations spanning 10.166 days
(2012-Feb-23.03431 to 2012-Mar-04.200111)
It is almost certain that previous observations will be found by searching older records. Barring that, more observations will be made in the future. With more observations, especially over a longer baseline, the uncertainty in the orbit will decrease dramatically and the likelihood of a collision in the next century will likely become insignificant.
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Can we steer it towards Hollywood CA?
If this asteroid is going to kill all of us in 11 months, then WTF do we need Obamacare for?
” If this asteroid is going to kill all of us in 11 months, then WTF do we need Obamacare for?”
Free contraception.
Iran
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 don’t think it would pulverize it.
Anyone have any thoughts on this??
Yes. 16,000 miles is close, but it’s not so close that you’d worry about a hit. It’s well beyond the atmosphere.
If it is determined that it will hit the US, then we can send up an ICBM or two to break it up before it hits the atmosphere. The increased surface area will give the atmosphere, which is our best defense, more to work on.
In any case, it is not a “planet killer”.
They’ll probably know pretty accurately where it is going to hit in the weeks before impact.
The Myans missed because there wasn’t a “Leap Day” back then. We just pushed the date forward.
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ICBM’s can’t even get into orbit.
It’s time to call Bruce Willis to saddle up and head on out there. (Armageddon, 1998)
NASA confirms the 60-meter (197-feet) asteroid, spotted by Spanish stargazers in February, has a good chance of colliding with Earth... February 15, 2013, when the distance between the planet and space wanderer will be under 27,000 km (16,700 miles)... if the entire asteroid is to crash into the planet, the impact will be as hard as in the Tunguska blast, which in 1908 knocked down trees over a total area of 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles) in Siberia. This is almost the size of Luxembourg.Gee, it'll just knock down some trees. Whew. Of course, the Tunguska object is generally believed to have been mostly water, and detonated above the ground. This is *just* a 60 meter (197 foot) rock...
Of course this effort would increate jobs, icrease our industrial output and would be a major "GREEN PROJECT' so Obomast would ignore this optiion!
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