Asteroids:
Deadly Impact
National Geographic
Posted on 12/23/2004 8:24:16 PM PST by hole_n_one
Asteroids:
Deadly Impact
National Geographic
the story of another asteroid that can't hit the broad side of a barn:
Space Rock To Hurtle Past Earth
BBC | 01-07-2002
Posted on 01/06/2002 7:20:43 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/602916/posts
it's fallen again, to 1 in 6,670 chance.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
What value would you put under "density"?
the current champ:
2000 SG344
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2000sg344.html
1 in 556 chance cumulative chance of impact; 68 encounters from 2068 to 2101.
The 2004 MN4 data hasn't changed much in a couple of months, although it still has a Torino 1, while 2000 SG344 has Torino 0. :')
You should rent Fooly Cooly.
I don't watch cartoons.
ping with a related topic:
Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 8:18:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1390424/posts
"Friday, April 13, 2029
FRiday the 13th :-\
Coincidence 8-?"
Wait a minute!
This is AFTER 2012. George Noory is already terrified that something bad is going to happen in 2012 because the Mayan calendar or something ends in that year. (My own opinion is that the guy who was tapping out the Mayan calendar in stone died, probably from lifting a heavy hammering tool thousands of times.)
Now he's got something else to be terrified about. Poor George. But I guess if what ever it is gets us in 2012, we won't have to worry about the asteroid.
Pretty sure that George will move the date out to 2024 as July 2011 rolls around. ;')
Intereswting, thanks!
Wyn Evans publications at Oxford:
http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/find/astro-ph/1/Evans;Oxford/0/1/0/all/3/0
Man, if it actually hit, that would be so cool!
At first...
How interesting. Where did you read that?
I have a better idea. Let's send up Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. They could drill into the asteroid, drop in a nuclear bomb....
I better take shower now, then!
You'd think the Moon would be willing to take one for the team!
odds fell a little:
1 in 7,140 chance
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
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