Posted on 11/16/2019 2:39:38 PM PST by BenLurkin
Yeah, I know you’re rolling your eyes – another day, another killer asteroid. You’ll probably be thinking: ‘This is just paranoid riffraff.’
Well… it is, really. However, there is actually a dangerous lump of space rock barrelling towards us, and there is a (hilariously) small chance it could wallop our planet.
NASA first discovered the asteroid back in 2009. Over the past decade, the space agency’s automated asteroid watching system – known as Sentry – has been tasked with keeping an eye on it.
Don’t worry yourself too much though. NASA place the odds of JF1 actually hitting us at 0.026%, therefore there’s more than a 99% chance that it will not. I doubt Paddy Power will let me put a tenner on.
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Please hit DC while Trump is in Florida.
I’m just saying the alarmists have “killed” us many times over with their cry-wolf predictions. The thread I mentioned was about poking fun at all the various alarmist theories.
Wow, that is about the same chance to see Her Thighness bought up on charges.
Hey, that’s my birthdate (May 6). It would be a heckuva way to go out.
Thinking...thinking...maybe a tossup?
Post # 12 right above yours. 328 feet across.
60 years ago Detroit was the wealthiest city in the world. 150 years ago it was New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Why not hope it hits in the ocean off the west coast of North America where I can punch up a one hundred and eight foot tsunami which can wipe out everything from Tijuana, Mexico through Victoria, British Columbia and all of the Hawaiian Islands. Just think of all Dims that will be taken out by J(e)f(e)1.
The tsunami will flush all the human waste and medical trash as well as the humans generating that waste and who have facilitated that waste out to sea.
After the 2030 census, Hawaii with lose one of its two House seats, California will lose 37 of its 51 House seats, Oregon and Washington will lose half of their House seats.
Who woulda thunk that El J(e)F(e)1 might save the Republic.
Please transmit the optimum coordinates to the incoming hunk of rock.
37.772562,-122.445438
Quick, let’s tax it.
Persian gulf works for me.
Can you blame Global Warming for this?
Coffee!
Lol!!
The moon is estimated to be ~4.53 billion years old. There are estimated to be ~5,185 craters on the moon that are larger than 12 miles across. If (and that’s a big if), asteroid strikes occur evenly spaced over time, an asteroid strike large enough to cause a crater larger than 12 miles across would, on average, be expected to occur once every 873,674 years.
There are estimated to be ~1,000,000 craters larger than ½ mile across on the moon. An asteroid strike large enough to cause those would then, on average, be expected to occur once every 4,530 years.
There are estimated to be >500,000,000 craters larger than 10 meters across on the moon. Using the same simplistic calculation, an asteroid strike large enough to cause those would, on average, be expected to occur once every 9.06 years.
Obviously this is very simplistic, and extrapolating from this to Earth also simplistic. For example, the moon has a very thin, essentially non-existent atmosphere – thus more meteors and asteroids would be expected to make it to the surface than on the Earth. Also, there may have been periods of very high numbers of strikes, and then lulls. At any rate, strikes do happen, and at some point it will be our time.
Van Ness and Market? could you be a little more precise please?
The Barringer Crater in Arizona rate an 8 on the Torino scale, if I read it correctly.
Trump’s fault.
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