Posted on 09/02/2003 6:39:19 AM PDT by bedolido
Scientists monitoring an asteroid have warned it could collide with Earth in just over a decade.
The newly discovered asteroid, known as 2003 QQ47, is around two-thirds of a mile wide and has been classified as "an event meriting careful monitoring" by astronomers.
It is around one tenth fo the size of the meteor that is thought to have wiped out dinosaurs on Earth 65 million years ago.
In the event of it hitting the Earth, the rock would have the force of 350,000 mega tonnes - around eight million times more powerful than the bomb dropped at Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
On impact it would be travelling at 75,000 miles a hour.
Experts say the giant rock, which was first spotted by Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program (Linear) in New Mexico, could impact on Earth on March 21, 2014.
But they say the probability of the asteroid hitting Earth is just one in 909,000 and the risk of impact is likely to decrease as they collect more information.
With a mass of around 2,600 million tons, it has been given a "Torino hazard rating" of one. Scientists said it is likely to drop down the Torino hazard scale as more observations are made.
Its orbit calculations are currently based on just 51 observations during a seven-day period.
Dr Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University, Belfast, one of the expert team advising the UK Near Earth Objects Information Centre, based in Leicester, said: "The NEO will be observable from Earth for the next two months, and astronomers will continue to track it over this period."
He added that there is no cause for concern over the asteroid.
Asteroids such as 2003 QQ47 are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
Most are kept at a safe distance from Earth in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
But the gravitational influence of giant planets such as Jupiter can nudge asteroids out of these safe orbits and send them plunging into the Earth's neighbourhood.
Last Updated: 14:07 UK, Tuesday September 02, 2003
Yes, and Brahma tells us how to behave before our next reincarnation.
Better yet it fragment into appropriately sized pieces for San Fran/Berkeley, Hollywood, Boulder, Ithica, and a certain address in Chappaqua, NY. This would also prove the existance of God.
There are evolutionary geologists now???
Well, que sera, sera. ;-)
Tonight I feel poetic, hahahaha.
I see. In other words, your company has seen the successive layers of rock strata, with each layer containing the classic fossil restrictions just as depicted in high school textbooks. That would be very interesting indeed, since in actuality, as more and more fossils are found, the ranges of fossils keep increasing. The range of fossils from one supposed time period keeps extending and overlapping fossils ostensibly typical of another period of time in the past.
There are many such things. A drill core would actually be more real than, say, a mother's unconditional love for her child. Name any virtue. Can you put it on display in a box?
Non-Sequitur.
Why is that surprising? I don't think anybody has ever seriously argued that all life ceased at the end of each geological age.
False dichotomy fallacy. Not everone who believes as you do is an atheist. Not all Christians believe as you do.
My, how the errors do abound. First, it's "everyone", not "everone". Second, the statement 'Not everone who believes as you do is an atheist' should actually be 'Not everyone who disagrees with you is an atheist' according to your intention. Finally, my original statement (in bold above) was not meant to imply that Christians and atheists are the only two kinds of people in the world. You made that assumption yourself.
Mmmmm. GOD spoke to me too, and this is what He said: "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." He also said, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." And, He said: "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved."
So, maybe you better adjust your hearing aid...because I don't think that God is saying what you think He is saying. Christians aren't any better than anybody else, true; but they are eternally better off. Whether one is a Christian or not makes no difference as to the fact that we will all eternally exist. But becoming a Christian does change the LOCATION of that eternal existence.
God said you all have trashed the TEN COMMANDMENTS, and that the JEWS are his favored people, so all you others better watch out.
All have sinned, it's true, that includes me and you. As regards the Jews, a thorough reading of Romans 11 will help you sort that out.
Small ship? Noah's Ark was the size of a modern day ocean liner, not a small ship. And of course, it was not ALL the world's animals -- just two of each kind.
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