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NASA Announce City-Killing Asteroid Could [.026% chance] Hit Earth On May 6, 2022
unilad ^ | 11/19/2019 | Cameron Frew

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at unilad.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; astronomy; catastrophism; deepimpact; jf1; science; smod
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To: familyop

Five times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor


41 posted on 11/16/2019 3:52:12 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

0.26% is about a 400 to 1 shot. Not a negligible danger, in my opinion.


42 posted on 11/16/2019 3:58:29 PM PST by Stirner
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To: Vaquero

“Can we pick the city? “

I’ll send the San Fagcisco coordinates to the asteroid..


43 posted on 11/16/2019 4:00:44 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: BenLurkin

And dang, wouldn’t you know that’s when my Visa card expires! Crimminey!


44 posted on 11/16/2019 4:02:24 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Vaquero

I say we paint a big, beautiful bullseye on the outside of the Capitol dome...


45 posted on 11/16/2019 4:03:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s my birthday. Heck of a send off


46 posted on 11/16/2019 4:05:49 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: BenLurkin

Can we choose the city?


47 posted on 11/16/2019 4:10:35 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: Stirner
Hmm, 400 to 1 shot.

So the smart thing to do, if you live in a city, is to drive out to the country on May 6, 2022. (That will be a Friday.)

48 posted on 11/16/2019 4:17:37 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: BenLurkin
I'm not worrying about Sentry... The one we need to worry about is Apophis... Initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029.

However, abacus-supported recalculations by the NASA Public Relations & Propaganda Department changed it to a "near" miss for both Earth & the moon...

To make matters even worse, it will return on an even more dangerous trajectory seven years later on April 13, 2036...

Other institutions (who must toe the government's "line" to protect their funding) have also, several times since 2006, found additional evidence that supports the line that there is no danger...

We can probably evaluate these after-the-fact findings in the same light as the way all U.S. communists manage to "find" additional votes in strange places that overturn an original vote count and result...

Just saying...

49 posted on 11/16/2019 4:25:04 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: BenLurkin

“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.”

That is why we need to confiscate all income and savings from all people of earth to pay for efforts to redirect the “lump”.

All “lump” deniers need to be exterminated.

An Inconvenient “lump”.


50 posted on 11/16/2019 4:27:32 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Alas Babylon!

The speed with which asteroids travel through space is well known. It is 15.5 miles per second or 55,800 MPH.

The angle of attack through our atmosphere is a critical factor indeed. The steeper the approach the more likely a solid asteroid is to impact the planet.

The shallower the approach the more time it spends super heating through the atmosphere. The impact can be a glancing blow and a bounce off the atmosphere or, a less explosive impact with the planet.

A porous object in a steep approach with will likely explode violently high in the atmosphere and be one hell of a light show. A solid object with significant mass of this size is bad news for all in the general area of impact.


51 posted on 11/16/2019 4:29:58 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: BenLurkin
Ridicules...it's never going to happen.
52 posted on 11/16/2019 4:31:24 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mewzilla

Make sure Trump is in Mar-a-Lago at the time.


53 posted on 11/16/2019 4:39:07 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BenLurkin

When they call it Wormwood, I’ll begin to get more concerned.

Besides, with those odds, it would be more likely than a woman or African American being made POTUS. Doh! /s


54 posted on 11/16/2019 4:46:11 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: BenLurkin

Can we aim it at Washington D.C.?


55 posted on 11/16/2019 4:49:16 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box <i>)
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To: Robert DeLong

Seattle IS an accident waiting to happen. The benevolent gods of space are giving it due consideration.


56 posted on 11/16/2019 4:51:14 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: BenLurkin

May 6, 2022, huh?

I’ll have to remember to go all in and short the market that day.


57 posted on 11/16/2019 4:57:27 PM PST by twoputt
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To: BenLurkin

I nominate Mecca.


58 posted on 11/16/2019 5:06:04 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: BenLurkin

Bpearthwatch to drone on in his stoner voice about how this asteroid is going to kill us all.


59 posted on 11/16/2019 5:09:44 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Eddie01

She’s Lump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3aiaXM9kE


60 posted on 11/16/2019 5:14:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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