Hey... I know a place.....
Posted on 10/20/2017 12:22:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
AN ASTEROID will hurtle towards Earth today – just one week after another dangerously close encounter.
The newly-discovered space rock – named Asteroid 2017 TD6 – is expected to zoom past our planet at around at around 7.53pm.
It will be travelling at a distance of 191,000km away from civilisation.
According to NASA the chunk of rock is a whopping 22m wide.
Last week another asteroid made a close shave with Earth, as it soared past at a distance of just 27,000 miles above the surface.
And experts have warned a second bus-sized asteroid will zoom past our planet again today at half the distance between the Earth and the moon.
But thankfully, experts predict there is no threat of it hitting out planet.
The asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii last Wednesday.
After today's near-miss, 2017 TD6 will then pass by the moon tomorrow at 6.06am.
Its next pass with Earth is predicted to be on May 29 2018.
While 2017 TD6 is expected to miss our planet, if it did hit Earth, experts believe it would be worst than the impact of the 59ft asteroid that hit the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013.
That particular blast injured around 1,500 people, and damaged over 7,000 buildings.
The passing comes just a week after asteroid 2012 TC4 flew by at just one-eighth of the distance between Earth and the moon.
During its journey, the asteroid narrowly missed communications satellites orbiting 22,236 miles above Earth.
But in one of its next passes with Earth, experts suggest that 2012 TC4 may not miss.
The near-misses coincide with end of the world fears.
Doomsayers believe a huge alien world called Nibiru or Planet X is hurtling through space towards us – and will hit tomorrow.
The planet will cause devastation on Earth with a direct hit or catastrophic near miss, believers warn.
It just shows we need a bigger carbon tax.
I'll still be at my grandson's flag football game, in case that prediction is wrong...snicker.
Hey... I know a place.....
If you’ve ever read Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” you would know that the secret tunnel is an opening for launching rocks at the Earth via catapult...................
Today is tomorrow's yesterday.
That is uncivil land
That is uncivil land
Damn! I just mailed the mortgage check!
rats, I had stuff to do tomorrow ping
First of all, the asteroid will hit before the check gets there.
Second, you’re not going to need the money.
Should've used miles for shock effect: that would make it 120,000 miles...zoweee!
However, it seems to me that if a freaking planet was headed towards us, any star gazer would have let us know about it weeks ago. As one who likes to view the space station via iss.astroviewer.net, I can confidently say I have seen no new astral objects hurtling our way.
Look at the bright side, it won’t hit the dark side of the moon!
I read a couple of my Cousin Mike’s dirty books when I was a teenager.
Did this Heinlein also write The Curvaceous Candy Striper?
That was a good one.
Most of the mistresses in those books were too busy, well, doing the nasty dance to be launching rocks at earth.
Geez, you could have given a few days’ warning. I wouldn’t have vacuumed or cleaned the kitchen. Bring on the chocolate!
Before we could detect these tiny asteroids, they were whizzing past us unseen. But now we have a very clear idea of how inconsequential these formerly unknown events actually were.
I suppose it was worth spending the billion dollars, just in case a big one comes along, then we will have a couple of days warning and we can go nuts.
Maybe if it’s gonna look like a second moon they’re downplaying and it’s AirBus and not street-sized.
It’s still small enough that it would likely break up in the atmosphere.
Huh? I thought Nibiru was gonna whack us in September.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collide
Definition of collide
collided; colliding
intransitive verb
1 :to come together with solid or direct impact ·The car collided with a tree.
·Two helicopters collided.
2 :clash ·colliding cultures
·Science and religion collided in the court.
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