Posted on 09/28/2004 5:34:19 PM PDT by missyme
Red moon was spooky. I hear there is a possible volcanic eruption brewing in Hawaii also.
Its all Bush's fault. Somehow global warming will pull it closer... I can see the next MoveOn ad.
This could be a description of the Kerry campaign.
Seeing as we're less than 4 years into the century, why not rephrase this as:
"The rumors are likely rooted in a real event, however. On Sept. 29, 2004 an asteroid the size of a small city will make the closest known pass of such a very large space rock in the last 4 years."?
NO why would they?
What do the scientists do if they establish, with a high degree of probablity, for example, that a large asteroid will strike the earth?
Do we just hang around waiting for the inevitable.
Blowing it up may not be practical and might be more dangerous, I suspect. If we calculate, for example, that a large asteroid will hit earth on a future pass, can we take advantage of earlier 'close' passes to maybe bombard it with some kind of chemical combo to dissolve it (maybe over years) into something much less destructive?
That was always my idea how to avert the disaster, but I am not a scientist - in fact, I'm widely regarded as an idiot. :-)
Or is all this skywatching so that we will have some notice of a catastrophe, so at the very least we can get it catered and arrange for a good band.
Perfect strike....may God pump his fist in delight at such a direct hit.
This could be a description of the Kerry campaign
Except the Kerry campaign is going to be hurtling into the ground.
Yes I heard that too? Which Island is that?
Okay not to be hokie pokie But we have had some strange weather and how do Astronmers really know if this Asteroid is not pulling on some kind of magnet wave causing gravity pool on earth...They are science guessers IMO
I got up an hour and a half before dawn this morning, and even looking out the window before venturing to the yard, I could see how bright that virtually full moon was. It didn't pass the hills to the west for another half hour or so.
Gee only 3/4 of the way through the fourth year of the Twenty First Century, and they are already spouting this phrase, as if they can read the future so very well.
It is the ones they don't know about that need to be worried over.
On Sept. 29, backyard skywatchers on Earth can find Toutatis, providing they know where to look.
But, you, oh Omniscient Writer, will keep that a secret from the Lowly Reader.
Ordinary binoculars should be sufficient for spotting it if the sky is clear and dark,
But, since the moon was full last night, not much chance of that, now is there?
Ostro points out a simple relationship between the distance of Toutatis at this close approach and the size of the Moon. Toutatis will be four times farther than the Moon; the Moon is about ¼ the size of Earth.
Makes me wonder what the relative brightness would be of Luna vs Terra from that sucker???????
Guess I better toddle over to Sky & Telescope....
Was it a Harvest Moon?
I think people living in the East should tell us in the West what the Moon looks like now Since it's 9 p.m
I believe the Harvest Moon is the first full moon after the first day of Fall. I'm open to correction.
From here the moon looks like a big ol' cloud that... Oh. That is a big ol' cloud, doggone it.
A few months ago NASA was about to warn Bush that an asteroid was on a course that if changed by 1 degree would hit earth. They had planned in suggesting A Bomb Missles to go against if if the course changed. It did not.
Geologist have mentioned California for a near future quake. Vesuvius, Etna, Hiwaii, Helens and the national park in Colorado/Nevada as locations for eruptions
You and me could of made those perdictions...
It is easy to know where it is going to be, when. They "grab" magnetic lines of force with their monoples, and roll along them.
Kind of like ships using lines of longitude to climb from the tropics towards the higher latitudes.
What if it changes course like a hurricaine?
...because they are including the next 96 years of this century for all known asteroids.
Wrongly of course, since we don't know what catastrophe lies ahead and when it would hit.
What was the asteroid they found a couple days after it nearly hit Earth about 3-4 years ago? It came in from the Sun side and no one could see it until it had passed by.
Hurricanes are steered by the trade winds and the Jet stream. There's no such current out in space. It would be just as likely for the earth to change course randomly.
"This could be a description of the Kerry campaign"
My thoughts also......"But Toutatis tumbles like a flubbed pass."
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