Posted on 10/07/2008 3:20:16 PM PDT by presidio9
AN asteroid discovered today will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours
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The asteroid would create a large fireball about 10.46pm EDT (1.46pm AEST) as it burns up, a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
"We want to stress that this object is -SNIP- a threat," said Timothy Spahr, director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center at Harvard in Massachusetts.
"We're excited since this is the first time we have issued a prediction that an object will enter Earth's atmosphere," Dr Spahr said.
The asteroid, known as a meteoroid,
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"A typical meteor comes from an object the size of a grain of sand," said Gareth Williams of the Minor Planet Centre.
"This meteor will be a real humdinger in comparison."
It would be visible from eastern Africa and would evaporate over Sudan, the scientists said.
"We really hope that someone will manage to photograph it," said Mr Williams.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Bush’s Fault!!!
Yesterday’s news.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Is this going to affect my 401k?
Check back in a few hours. I was going to post it again, in case anyone like you missed it.
It destroyed the earth.
No that is Bush's fault.
It will probably only miss us by a trillion miles or so! We’re doomed! DOOOOOOOOOMED I tell ya!
Wormwood
Obama will call this a “distraction” from the real issues.
You edited that like it was a Republican giving an interview to NBC.
this should finish off the stock market - its the end of the world!
In Vs. 8, there is a pretty clear description of an asteroid impact for someone in the late-bronze age:
7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and . . .
Great minds.
Ya know, a little psyops action could go a long, long way towards cleaning up the situation over there. Or making it very, very worse.
If there were to be another Tunguska event with in 24 hours of discovery, would they tell us?
Must be Farrakhan’s Mothership coming to pick up Obama’s brother before someone else tries to show the world how he lives off $12 a year while his brother raises over half a billion dollars to spend on telling people he’s an okay guy. You would think he would come up with something for his brother to do to pay him a couple hundred dollars and let him retire.
Didn’t Obama introduce legislation to give $700M in foreign aid? And he can’t find a couple hundred dollars so his brother doesn’t have to live in a slum waiting to be hacked to death with a machete? Before you give my money away, how about you give some of your own to your brother.
Obama will use this as justification to send our troops into Darfur.
I thought this was last night????
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