1 posted on
10/01/2011 5:27:58 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Let me get this right... each red dot is an asteroid? Okay... is this the point where I go running and screaming?!! LOL!
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So the conclusion is (a) we get clobbered by an asteroid, (b) fried when our sun goes nova, or (c) swallowed by a black hole.
At least it puts a bad day in perspective.
7 posted on
10/01/2011 6:23:24 AM PDT by
ixtl
( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
To: SunkenCiv
Old Model: We THINK many object could do major damage.
New Model: We are SURE there are objects that can do damage, just half of what we were guessing before.
8 posted on
10/01/2011 6:35:32 AM PDT by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: SunkenCiv
9 posted on
10/01/2011 6:47:39 AM PDT by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: SunkenCiv
OK, which ones are asteroids and which ones are planetoids?
Now that astronomers have created a category called "dwarf planets," does that mean that there are also "dwarf planetoids"? Or are those just meteoroids?
To: SunkenCiv
...and one of those puppies has our number on it.
13 posted on
10/01/2011 9:25:59 AM PDT by
PapaNew
To: SunkenCiv
the estimated number of mid-size near-Earth asteroids from about 35,000 to 19,500, but the majority still remain undiscovered.
The majority of the actual number of asteroids or the majority of the estimated number?
So we're 40% less totally effed? If that were a room and each red dot were a cockroach, there would still plenty to be freaked out about.
27 posted on
10/01/2011 7:12:13 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: SunkenCiv
the estimated number of mid-size near-Earth asteroids from about 35,000 to 19,500, but the majority still remain undiscovered.
Also, are those red dots only those asteroids that are in the ecliptic plane? Do any exist above or below it?
28 posted on
10/01/2011 7:14:04 PM PDT by
aruanan
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