It’s gonna hit us twice?
Quick, buy toilet paper!
Please, Sweet Meteor of Death, come to us NOW!
Just time for the asteroid strike to cause a “nuclear” winter to save us all from global warming.
We have 9 years to figure out what to do. Hitting the earth may not be as bad as if it hits the moon. That would cause more trouble. If it hits our atmosphere its likely to recoche away. Its also likely to split up, burn up and hit the ocean. These would all have some affects on us. But are not likely to be dinosaur extinction event. I could happen. Just not likely. But if it hits the moon, we have a bigger problem. The moon does not have a protective atmosphere. And it would likely change the orbit of the moon or maybe cause the moon to splinter. This could be a real issue with much wider ramifications.
Nice posting job w/ links, etc. Welcome to FR. Enjoy!
No need to wait till 2029, this one’s gonna whiz by next month:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3823150/posts
What they mean is their predictions have a 1 in 40 chance of being right. The asteroid will do what its mass, direction, and velocity make it do, allowing for deflection by the gravitational fields of nearby objects.
no worries. of you read FRreaking out republic for any length of time, you know we’ll all be dead from coronavirus before the weekend is over.
“A team of astronomers discovered Apophis in June 2004.
The observations caused quite a stir - initial orbital calculations revealed that the asteroid had a 2.7 per cent chance of impacting Earth in 2029.
Fortunately, additional observations refined the orbit and completely ruled out that possibility.
Current calculations show that Apophis still has a small chance of impacting Earth, less than 1 in 1,00,000 many decades from now, but future measurements of its position can be expected to rule out any possible impacts.”
Seriously do we need anymore goofy blogs trying to hype-up stuff?
Does this mean it will get us before Global Warming does???
“Could”? “Odds”?
What possible external influences on this rock would prevent us from knowing right now?
So a 2.5% chance of hitting us. Well look at the bright side, not more coronavirus. 8>)
The Asteroid Collision Blog
Maybe it will just hit bloggers.
And they’ll call it Wormwood?
Doesnt matter. 10+ years and we’re all goners.
It doesn’t matter. We are all going to die of Coronavirus before that.
I think I’ll go buy a new baseball glove and see if I can catch it.
Amazing example of how the government lies...
First sighting (2004) predicted a 1-in-40 (2.7%) chance of collision...
Then they panicked and recalculated it (using the precursor to Million Man Math) and reduced the odds by a couple of orders of magnitude...
Now, apparently, they are back to 1-in-40 (2.6%)
If one reads the FR comments about this in December 2004 and throughout 2005, FR consensus-predictions were, as usual, correct...
Odds are that no sizable asteroid will hit the earth this century. Even if one did, odds are that it would splash into the ocean.