Posted on 07/27/2010 7:09:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
"The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) 1999 RQ36' can be estimated in 0.00092 –approximately one-in-a-thousand chance-, but what is most surprising is that over half of this chance (0.00054) corresponds to 2182," explains to SINC María Eugenia Sansaturio, co-author of the study and researcher of Universidad de Valladolid (UVA). The research also involved scientists from the University of Pisa (Italy), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) and INAF-IASF-Rome (Italy).
Scientists have estimated and monitored the potential impacts for this asteroid through 2200 by means of two mathematical models (Monte Carlo Method and line of variations sampling). Thus, the so called Virtual Impactors (VIs) have been searched. VIs are sets of statistical uncertainty leading to collisions with the Earth on different dates of the XXII century. Two VIs appear in 2182 with more than half the chance of impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Relax. We can always panic later.
party on...we got time.
I don’t have any kids. Looks like yours are on their own.
Well at least my Social Security will be safe.....
Ping me when it happens.
Star Fleet will take care of it.
i wont get any sleep tonight
Now I'm worried.
By 2182, either mankind will be able to easily kick it out of the way, or mankind will not deserve to still be around.
There is an even better chance of being hit by one between then and now. And we won’t even know it was coming.
Forget that one, Wormwood will be here before that. By the way did you know that Chernobyl in English is “Wormwood”?
Great...just as our great grand kids are finished paying off the last trillion of the Obama administration’s debt...and they get hit by an asteroid. Fab.
“Potentially hazardous asteroid might collide with the Earth in 2182”
Women and minorities hit hardest! All Bush’s fault!
I will be vacationing on Mars. Let me know how that turns out. Thanks
I don’t care, i’ll be in the local landfill at least 30 years bedore that!
I know it’s lame, but what will happen to global warming?/sarc
We still won’t have seen obamma’s birth certificate.
http://www.online-game.tv/play/asteroids
Practice, practice, practice.
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