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NASA and FEMA Will Simulate an Impending Asteroid Strike Next Week
Gizmodo ^ | 04/26/2019 | Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Posted on 04/26/2019 7:37:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin

They hope to learn the best strategies for responding to a potential strike, starting from the moment a threatening asteroid is first detected by astronomers.

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office will team up with other partners to perform a “tabletop exercise” on how they’d handle the news of a (fictional) asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

On March 26, 2019, astronomers discover an asteroid in the night sky, far dimmer than Pluto to their telescopes. They name it 2019 PDC. Initially, it appears that the asteroid’s eccentric orbit bring it within approximately 18 times the Moon’s distance from the Earth, with a chance of hitting the Earth at one in 50,000 in 2027.

Astronomers continue to track the object as it gets closer. They learn it could be somewhere between 100 and 300 meters wide—the size of a skyscraper. After a month of tracking, the probability of collision with Earth is now 1 percent—the threshold at which international organizations have agreed they must take action.

Its potential paths intersect the United States, some of western Africa, and the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.

The fictional 2019 PDC describes a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” the kind that orbits close to Earth and that could have a catastrophic impact if it actually struck the planet.... The new simulation instead will focus less on the scientific questions, and more on governmental response.

This simulation is the sixth near-Earth-object impact exercise that NASA has taken part in. Not only do these exercises help NASA officials think through what they’d do in the event of a threat, but they also help them know what information is most important to FEMA and other agencies.

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


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: 2019pdc; asteroid; bohica; catastrophism; fema; nasa; simulate
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To: BenLurkin

It will be re-named Wormwood
Rev.8:11


41 posted on 04/26/2019 10:45:13 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputecan')
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To: Bommer; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void; Maudeen; metmom

I’m not saying it’s an asteroid, but that just made me think of this reference:

Luke 21:26 King James Version

26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.


42 posted on 04/26/2019 11:02:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. I suggest they drop the test bolide directly on Tehran.



43 posted on 04/26/2019 11:22:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TigersEye

did someone say ‘bring on the asteriod’?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU


44 posted on 04/26/2019 11:47:28 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: sparklite2

Children are to duck and cover under their desks.

Just think how much money the Department of Education could spend making millions of glossy brochures to be handed out to children to take home to their parents.

Can I get the contract, please?—it would be like winning Powerball!


45 posted on 04/26/2019 11:47:52 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: SaveFerris

LOL That’s good!!!


46 posted on 04/27/2019 12:36:18 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Worst of a worst scenario, asteroid enters atmosphere, hits Yellowstone, impact also reverses earths magnetic poles.


47 posted on 04/27/2019 2:08:39 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Worst of a worst scenario, asteroid enters atmosphere, hits Yellowstone, impact also reverses earths magnetic poles.


and causes nuclear winter lasting centuries, which brings on mass starvation, reducing the human population to just under 100 million widely scattered across the planet.


48 posted on 04/27/2019 2:48:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

At least it would put an end to rap music.


49 posted on 04/27/2019 3:07:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll commit suicide by binge watching Oprah......A horrible way to go but very quick.


50 posted on 04/27/2019 3:15:49 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (uizzzp)
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To: piasa

At least it would put an end to rap music.

Yes there is that blessing but on the downside it will be rediscovered some 10-15000 years in the future since that is how long it took for it to be rediscovered this time around.

There is a distinct possibility that rap music attracts these strikes, or its just that the Earth passes through the denser part of the Taurid cloud with mile diameter rocks - a remnant of a very large broken up comet.


51 posted on 04/27/2019 3:38:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BenLurkin
If it's like this, no need for civil defense drills ... just end of world parties.


52 posted on 04/27/2019 4:29:09 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: Navy Patriot

Lol!


53 posted on 04/27/2019 5:29:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: SuperLuminal

Nice name on that one, eh?


54 posted on 04/27/2019 5:30:51 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: BenLurkin

Going to visit Detroit?


55 posted on 04/27/2019 6:22:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: castlebrew

I was thinking “They’re wasting their time; it’s already been done”.

It’s a darned shame nobody’s made a movie out of that one.


56 posted on 04/27/2019 6:24:40 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: sparklite2

They’ll be giving us that advice AFTER they’re hiding in their bunkers. 3 days max warning to us too.


57 posted on 04/27/2019 7:42:26 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: piasa

[At least it would put an end to rap music.]

That is very true.


58 posted on 04/27/2019 8:46:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mabarker1

:)


59 posted on 04/27/2019 8:46:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Bommer; Mark17; SaveFerris

I always thought Wormwood would be a comet.
This kind of stuff is coming down the pipe one way or another however.


60 posted on 04/27/2019 10:47:35 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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