Posted on 09/30/2021 8:38:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
For thousands of years, the most consistent, spectacular meteor shower has been the Perseids, created by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. At its incredibly large size (26 kilometers across) and speed, it contains nearly 30 times the energy of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs... If Jupiter — which it also passes by — gives it just the slightest gravitational kick, it could be flung into the Sun, ejected from the Solar System, or hurtled directly into our world. If this were to happen, and it's a real possibility some 2400 years from now, it would mark the largest mass extinction our world has seen in hundreds of millions of years...
First, the good news... It last entered the inner Solar System in December of 1992, and won't do so again until 2126. We'll get a close pass (within 1,000,000 miles) in 3044, but it ought to miss us. In fact, its next 2,000+ years of orbits are mapped out incredibly well, and the Earth is 100% safe until at least 4479, when it will come quite close to Earth once again. Even then, there's still a 99.9999% chance it will miss us.
But... Each orbit contains, on average, a 0.000002% probability of the comet hitting Earth. This might seem small, but it's six times greater than your odds of winning the Powerball. Only in this case, it would be the ultimate cosmic loss. Comet Swift-Tuttle is 26 kilometers in diameter, making it at least 260% the width of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, and it moves at four times the speed that the dinosaur-killer moved at whenever it crosses Earth's orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which passes perilously close to crossing Earth's actual path around the Sun. While there is no danger to Earth for at least ~2400 years, the meteors from the cometary debris will grace our skies every year for the foreseeable future. [HOWARD OF TEACHINGSTARS]
We can only hope
Get the jab and everything gonna be alright.
HE owns us and will not allow another creation of His destroy US.
OUR destruction is self imposed and supernatural in origin
Didn’t the Beach Boys sing about this ?
Only God Knows
Well, that’s the price you pay for all those pretty light shows.
So you’re sayin’ “Play the Powerball?”
Whoops. Googling used to work much better than FR’s own search, but something has changed in their algorithm. Gosh, wonder why?
The Comet That Created The Perseids Might Bring An End To Humanity
Forbes | 11 Aug, 2017 | Ethan Siegel
Posted on 8/12/2017, 11:21:52 AM by MtnClimber
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No, just be sure to buy at least six tickets!
Powerball drawing results for 9/29/21. No match to winning numbers, jackpot rises to $620M
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2021/09/29/powerball-numbers-drawing-results-lottery-jackpot-9-29-21-september-2021/5901329001/
“Each orbit contains, on average, a 0.000002% probability of the comet hitting Earth. This might seem small, but it’s six times greater than your odds of winning the Powerball.”
What this tells us about Powerball is more interesting than what it tells us about a cometary catastrophe.
We are all going to die in 10 years from “climate change” anyway. So what difference at this point does it matter!
Lol. The Asteroid strike that supposedly killed the dinosaurs is only conjecture. The dinosaurs took several million years to die out, it wasn’t overnight. And they had been declining for millions of years before the suspected strike. It’s like other unproven ideas, like “left brain, right brain”. These things take on a life of their own. But they aren’t factual.
But did not debris from the Taurid stream lead the the worldwide cataclysm 12,800 years ago? I’ve read debris from the Taurid stream could happen at any time the earth is exposed to that stream
Fear porn by AND FOR liberal ‘elites’ who aren’t getting much kick out of ‘climate change’ anymore.
Hah! Covid-odds!
Y’know, if you just agree to pay a 3% tax on your carbon usage, government will prevent this from happening!
Is there a GoFundMe where we can help the comet?
Nope, it’s called astronomy, a.k.a. the queen of the sciences. And by queen, we don’t mean, homosexuality.
I’m in for five.
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![The orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which passes perilously close to crossing Earth's actual path around the Sun. While there is no danger to Earth for at least ~2400 years, the meteors from the cometary debris will grace our skies every year for the foreseeable future. [HOWARD OF TEACHINGSTARS]](https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fstartswithabang%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F08%2Forbital-path-of-swift-tuttle-outer-solar-system_crop1-1.jpg)
