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Earth’s gravity may lure deadly asteroid
The Times (UK) ^
| April 18, 2005
| By Nigel Hawkes
Posted on 04/18/2005 7:21:31 AM PDT by aculeus
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:21:32 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:23:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
To: aculeus
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:23:55 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
To: dfwgator
ya beat me by 4 seconds :-)
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:24:41 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
To: aculeus
and here in a couple days we will find out that even these fears are without merit.
it does need to be watched however....
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:24:58 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(Question of the week: Can you think country music sucks and still be a Conservative?)
To: aculeus
Great. Just about the time I retire, too...
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:27:06 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: aculeus
we're ummm, uhh...What's the word I'm looking for? We're... We're.....
DOOMED!!!
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:28:17 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(When we are tolerant, we should be careful to note whether it stems from convenience or conviction.)
To: aculeus
Bush must have thought this up right after he planed the tsunami.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:28:20 AM PDT
by
Forrestfire
("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt)
To: aculeus
So this means we don't need to fix Social Security?
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:29:18 AM PDT
by
Kay Syrah
(--)
To: aculeus
Should be quite a show looking out of my nursing home window.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:30:41 AM PDT
by
afnamvet
(31st Fighter Wing Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 "Return With Honor")
To: aculeus
How does the asteroid lose enough kinetic energy to be captured by Earth's gravitational field? Does it encounter our atmosphere? Would that really slow it down enough?
This sounds far-fetched, but I'm no rocket scientist.
(steely)
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:31:07 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
To: Kay Syrah
Chicken Little is getting over on his future SS contributions
I love this site
RW
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:32:06 AM PDT
by
reluctantwarrior
(Strength and Honor, just call me Buzzkill for short......)
To: aculeus
Ok Cubs fans you've only got 29 more years left to win a World Series.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:32:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Minutemen: Just doing the jobs that American politicians won't do.)
To: aculeus
Yeah - put a radio beacon on the darned thing, just in case it gets lost!
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:32:53 AM PDT
by
Ken522
To: aculeus
women and children hit hardest
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:34:18 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(Proud Submariner)
To: aculeus
A HUGE asteroid which is on a course to miss the Earth by a whisker in 2029.... [snip] ...1,000ft-wide asteroid This is hardly a huge asteroid. Big enough to reach the ground and do significant local damage, but not enough to panic about.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:34:58 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(Doh!... stupid tagline)
To: SlowBoat407
Looks like I'll need burn my personal leave before 2034 :}
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:34:59 AM PDT
by
Lawdoc
(Send up Bruce Willis to handle this!)
To: aculeus
Write your congressman and demand more restrictive gravity control laws NOW!
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:35:23 AM PDT
by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: aculeus
Bah, who cares. We can get Bruce Willis and his wacky deep-well drilling team to go take care of it. This time I hope they leave Aflek on the thing to set off the nuke, though.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:36:01 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
To: Steely Tom
It won't get captured, but if it passes close enough, earth's gravity well could change its course slightly. The final effect of that course change cannot be predicted until we know exactly how close it passes.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:36:42 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(When we are tolerant, we should be careful to note whether it stems from convenience or conviction.)
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