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NASA plans to launch study of asteroid that could destroy Earth (Bennu in 2135 scenario)
New York Post ^ | 7/31/15 | Eileen AJ Connelly

Posted on 07/31/2016 3:51:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Paging Bruce Willis!

NASA is planning to launch a probe to study an asteroid that could one day pulverize the Earth.

The asteroid, named Bennu, crosses Earth’s orbit once every six years and has gotten ever closer since it was discovered in 1999, astronomers told the Sunday Times of London (paywall).

In 2135, Bennu will fly between the moon and Earth — a hair’s breadth in space terms, the Times reported. That’s so close that gravity from the Earth could effect Bennu’s orbit, “potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century,” said Dante Lauretta, a professor of planetary science at Arizona University.

Bennu is about 1,600 feet in diameter and travels around the sun at an average of 63,000 mph.

The chance of an impact is small but significant, and if it happens, would be equivalent to triggering 3 billion tons of high explosive, 200 times the strength of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: 101955bennu; 1999rq36; asteroid; bennu; carbonaceous; catastrophism; chondrite; destroy; earth; nasa; osirisrex
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2135?

Might be a good year to consider moving some of humanity by then to Mars or the Moon I reckun. :-)

1 posted on 07/31/2016 3:51:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Can we tell it to speed it up a little?


2 posted on 07/31/2016 3:52:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Helpful Tips For Nuking An Asteroid
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150803-space-nasa-asteroids-comets-nuclear-weapons-defense/


3 posted on 07/31/2016 3:53:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

It will be sooner. The name of the asteriod will be President Hillary Clinton.


4 posted on 07/31/2016 3:54:08 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: NormsRevenge

We have plenty of time to “make adjustments”.


5 posted on 07/31/2016 3:54:35 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: NormsRevenge

The Hiroshima bomb was like 15kt and this thing would be like 3gt that’s NOT 200 times the Hiroshima bomb...common core math I suppose.


6 posted on 07/31/2016 3:56:26 PM PDT by Bobalu (Democrats use guns to shoot the innocent. Republicans use them for self-defense.)
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http://www.nasa.gov/content/what-is-nasa-s-asteroid-redirect-mission


7 posted on 07/31/2016 3:57:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Does this have any thing to do with Air Conditioning or Carbon Dioxide?


8 posted on 07/31/2016 3:57:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Well, people in my family tend to live at least in their 90s, and this would jump off when I’m 89. If I gotta go, which I do, it’d be pretty cool to go at the end of the world.


9 posted on 07/31/2016 3:58:47 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: NormsRevenge
In 2135, Bennu will fly between the moon and Earth

I don't think there will be any human life left in 2135.........Lots of dandelions maybe but no humans.

10 posted on 07/31/2016 4:01:22 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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To: NormsRevenge

They can divert it, or have it collide with Earth even sooner.


11 posted on 07/31/2016 4:02:11 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: ColdOne

well, the first two letters are a start


12 posted on 07/31/2016 4:04:37 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Paladin2

Both. And slavery. And deporting illegals.

BUT MOSTLY WHITE PEOPLE!!!! :)


13 posted on 07/31/2016 4:05:54 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: NormsRevenge
An explosion too close to Earth could create a “shotgun effect,” pummeling our planet with a spray of asteroid fragments that could rain devastation across a vast area.

No concern about radiation, right?

14 posted on 07/31/2016 4:06:23 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Diversity" was never THE goal. Diversity was a byproduct of people coming 'yearning to be free'.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Global warming will have already made us toast by then! Al Gore stated that we only have five years left fifteen years ago.
15 posted on 07/31/2016 4:15:29 PM PDT by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

16 posted on 07/31/2016 4:16:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Islam will have done its work.


17 posted on 07/31/2016 4:18:43 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: dp0622
There won't be any America or white people left in what was America in 2135 - this "location" will be like India for the starvation, Venezuela for the political upheaval and Greece for the fiscal mismanagement.

I don't care though since I'll be dead - yippee

18 posted on 07/31/2016 4:21:28 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: atc23

I’m hoping to make 2035 :)

And you’re right, if things keep going the way they are, the asteroid will be doing Earth a favor so it can start over.

“Save the earth” What a dumb ####ing Green statement.

As if we COULD destroy it.

We could use every nuke on the planet and the earth would be fine. And in a few million years new creautures would apppear, hopefully not dems :)


19 posted on 07/31/2016 4:25:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ColdOne
It will be sooner. The name of the asteriod will be President Hillary Clinton

EXCELLENT!!

20 posted on 07/31/2016 4:27:03 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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