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.
and 2029 isn’t even an election year
These asteroids are starting to annoy me. I read idea once about attaching a solar sail to an asteroid, using the suns radiation to change its course.
Hurry Up,
I’m feeling Old!
I would think that’s enough time to send up a big nuke just in case.
C’mon baby you can do it. SMOD me baby!
I could be wrong...but am pretty sure snow doesn’t come from asteroids.
11,800 BC - Comet strike - fragments continues to strike for over 100 years. Ended the Ice Age, caused the Younger Dryas, extincted mega fauna and, the Clovis peoples in North America - the prime area of the strike.
There were many other large impacts after the Chicxulub Dino killer but none 6.8 to 50.3km in size
Dino killing asteroids always hit every 60million years.....
We are 5million years overdue. Lol
One is going to hit during the Tribulation of Revelation.
Younger Dryas impact 13000 years ago in North America was last one.
Mammoth tusks with micro impacts are pretty conclusive evidence as is widespread black mat.
Another big space rock going nowhere fast.
Kind of like Joy Behar.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
“...370 meter asteroid...?” Not big enough to be scary. A few years back, there was a site where we could enter some information to see the approximate damage. I lost track of the URL for that site since then.
Admit it. We all think an asteroid strike would be cool to see, as long as it’s not too close.
66,000,000 years ago, October 9th.
The government scrambled when the first (2004) reports/calculations showed a 2029 collision... It redid the calculations using "million-man-march" mathematics and found that this first pass would just be a "close call"...
The next pass, in 2036 will be "much" closer...
Nothing to see here... The government has everything under control... Move along...
damn...
awww hell no..
My cracker-jack calculations say...Catastrophism !!!
April 13 is Jefferson's birthday. Four asteroids were discovered during his lifetime. I don't know if he took an interest in the news.
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