One of your renegades found.
Holy Schmidt! We’re DOOOMED!!!!!!.............
If that sucker hits the Alblowhard’s Piece Prize will ber meaningless!!!
NEA are far more dangerous that global warming.
Well, there goes my vacation.
How is SETI involved in asteroid hunting?
So how big is it?
Is it a larger object with low reflectivity or a smaller object with high reflectivity?
2012 is going to be a VERY bad year!!!
(Just ask the Maya!)
Oh good. I was wondering where I put that...
IT’S A SPACE STATION!!
Proof that some people can’t find their asteroid with both hands...
Jenniskens believes that this object may not, in fact, be an asteroid. “This is a now-dormant comet nucleus, a fragment of a bigger object that, after breaking up in the not-so-distant past, may have caused the gamma Piscid shower of slow meteors (IAU #236) that is active in mid-October and early November,” he says.
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he says.. :-)
How the heck do you know what came from where in the first place?
A very cool profession, in more ways than one.
I’d better move my car.
Hot Fudge Sunday *ping*...
They crossed vast reaches of space in a journey lasting thousands of years before reaching their target where they attacked the first planet they encountered, Earth. Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog.
you could give a large chunk of the artic to the first country
that blasts it out of orbit as it approaches gore-earth.
"The object was long recognized to be dangerous, but we didn't know where it was," says Jenniskens. "Now it is no longer just out there."Alright! I've been hopin' something exciting would happen! Thanks Blam for the prodigal stone topic!
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"This is a now-dormant comet nucleus, a fragment of a bigger object that, after breaking up in the not-so-distant past, may have caused the gamma Piscid shower of slow meteors (IAU #236) that is active in mid-October and early November," he says. 2007 RR9 moves in a 4.70-year orbit, nearly all the way out to the distance of Jupiter. Because of this elongated orbit, it has a Tisserand parameter of T = 2.94, which defines it dynamically as a Jupiter Family Comet (T = 2.0 - 3.0), not an asteroid (T > 3.0).
Who knows, some kind of information about this object may someday appear here:
Finally, a reason not to give a crap, kill me now
NOOOO! I JUST TURNED 21, DAMN!
HUH? I just planted my medicinal marijuana crop
I shoulda ended up at Kappa Alpha Theta