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Large asteroid will sweep by earth in 2029, almost colliding
Earthsky ^ | April 30, 2019 | Deborah Bryd

Posted on 02/09/2020 1:16:43 PM PST by WebHankerchief22

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To: LeoTDB69

and 2029 isn’t even an election year


21 posted on 02/09/2020 1:51:50 PM PST by xp38
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To: WebHankerchief22

These asteroids are starting to annoy me. I read idea once about attaching a solar sail to an asteroid, using the sun’s radiation to change its course.


22 posted on 02/09/2020 1:54:28 PM PST by Crucial
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To: GOPJ

Hurry Up,
I’m feeling Old!


23 posted on 02/09/2020 1:55:20 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: WebHankerchief22

I would think that’s enough time to send up a big nuke just in case.


24 posted on 02/09/2020 2:21:40 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: WebHankerchief22

C’mon baby you can do it. SMOD me baby!


25 posted on 02/09/2020 2:24:26 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: joethedrummer

I could be wrong...but am pretty sure snow doesn’t come from asteroids.


26 posted on 02/09/2020 2:25:38 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: be-baw

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


27 posted on 02/09/2020 2:27:46 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: WebHankerchief22

Dino killing asteroids always hit every 60million years.....

We are 5million years overdue. Lol


28 posted on 02/09/2020 2:31:10 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: WebHankerchief22; SaveFerris; Roman_War_Criminal

One is going to hit during the Tribulation of Revelation.


29 posted on 02/09/2020 2:32:52 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: be-baw

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.


30 posted on 02/09/2020 2:34:48 PM PST by zek157
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To: WebHankerchief22

Another big space rock going nowhere fast.

Kind of like Joy Behar.


31 posted on 02/09/2020 2:35:03 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: GOPJ; PIF; zek157; gleeaikin

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


32 posted on 02/09/2020 2:41:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: WebHankerchief22

“...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.


33 posted on 02/09/2020 2:45:04 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: WebHankerchief22

Admit it. We all think an asteroid strike would be cool to see, as long as it’s not too close.


34 posted on 02/09/2020 2:45:34 PM PST by lurk
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35 posted on 02/09/2020 2:47:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: be-baw

66,000,000 years ago, October 9th.


36 posted on 02/09/2020 2:53:46 PM PST by GingisK
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To: WebHankerchief22
Very old news (Posted on FR many times since 2004)... Apophis will be making a couple of passes at Earth...

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...

37 posted on 02/09/2020 2:58:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SunkenCiv

damn...


38 posted on 02/09/2020 3:14:56 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: All

awww hell no..

My cracker-jack calculations say...Catastrophism !!!


39 posted on 02/09/2020 3:16:39 PM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: WebHankerchief22
Well, I violated FR protocol and looked at the article. It says they expect the asteroid to pass by at a distance of 19,000 miles on April 13, 2029.

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.

40 posted on 02/09/2020 3:31:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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