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- Keyword: apophis
Posted on 02/09/2020 1:16:43 PM PST by WebHankerchief22
A relatively large asteroid that would cause damage if it hit earth will undergo a near miss of earth, flying right by. There was earlier controversy as to whether the asteroid would hit, but now scientists say it won't hit. Previously a 1-40 chance of colliding.
However, if the around 370 meter asteroid actually did hit earth in a high density area.. it would be a disaster. According to a simulation from an Asteroid Damage Simulator, the asteroid would cause hundreds of thousands of casualties and hundreds of buildings would collapse in range. Fortunately, this will not happen as the asteroid will undergo a near miss of earth.
How long since the last big one? 12,000 years? Or more?
Let’s keep some perspective here...
Trump’s fault. Need to impeach. /sarc.....obviously.
Aoc was right.
almost being the key word. Remind me again in 2028 or even 2029.
Trump’s fourth term?
“almost being the key word. Remind me again in 2028 or even 2029.”
Saw a show about this. Will come much closer in 2036 so they may try moving its orbit in 2029.
Austalia will see the asteroid with the naked eye first during the 2029 close pass:
“ASA said that asteroid Apophis will look “like a moving star-like point of light” to earthly observers during the 2029 pass. It said the asteroid:
… will first become visible to the unaided eye in the night sky over the Southern Hemisphere, flying above Earth from the east coast to the west coast of Australia. It will be mid-morning on the East Coast of the United States when Apophis is above Australia. It will then cross the Indian Ocean, and by the afternoon in the eastern U.S. it will have crossed the equator, still moving west, above Africa. At closest approach, just before 6 p.m. EDT, Apophis will be over the Atlantic Ocean – and it will move so fast that it will cross the Atlantic in just an hour. By 7 p.m. EDT, the asteroid will have crossed over the United States.”
By thaat point in time, I have a name for it ... the Blanco-Nagin Express, for surely, it will demonstrate the administration’s ineptitude of that moment, as truly as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the ineptitude of those two dolts!!
Trump ploy just to disprove global warming experts. In the last year before we’re all dead from global warming, Trump steers an asteroid into the planet just to hide the results of global climate change!
Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona (Barringer Crater) is only 50,000 years old. If an equivalent asteroid hit a major city today it could kill millions.
Or it could land in a deep ocean trench and we might possible not know it happened....maybe not even devastating waves.
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maybe not the “Big One”, but will still ruin yer day
The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. Wikipedia
Effects: Flattening 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi) of forest
and that never hit the ground, an air burst, three to six miles (5–10 kilometers) above Earth’s surface
By comparison, the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor was about 20 meters across.
The Arizona meteor crater was formed 50,000 years ago by a 50 meter meteor. Tunguska in 1908 was estimated to be 65 meters which was destroyed in an airburst.
but her timing is off.....2009 is a bit early
2029 is just in time.
O Almighty Large Asteroid, Please save us from death by fossil fuels and climate change!
oops 2009 should be 2029
Hey asteroid scientists,
Is it gonna snow tomorrow?
Can you tell us THAT accurately?
Nahh... didn’t think so...
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