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Giant Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2014
CNN/Reuters ^ | September 2, 2003

Posted on 09/02/2003 1:11:02 PM PDT by anymouse

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: anymouse
Women and minorities hardest hit!
21 posted on 09/02/2003 1:25:00 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: xJones
I believe Dr. Levy (of Shoemaker-Levy) says we will first see the one that gets us when it enters the atmosphere. He bases that on a lifetime of observation.
22 posted on 09/02/2003 1:25:32 PM PDT by Williams
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To: xJones
No "we're" not, Laz. You're going to be our virgin sacrifice.:)

oooo. I don't know how ta tellya this.....

23 posted on 09/02/2003 1:25:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: anymouse
The aliens are coming at the end of the Mayan calendar (December 2012) anyway, so that rock can come and do its worst!


24 posted on 09/02/2003 1:25:42 PM PDT by xrp
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time to run up the credit cards
25 posted on 09/02/2003 1:26:24 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod (If God hadn't meant for them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep.)
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To: anymouse
astronomers say that any risk of impact is likely to decrease as further data is gathered.

Huh? Whoever wrote that had a few too many at lunch.
26 posted on 09/02/2003 1:26:38 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: anymouse
after the giant rock was first observed in New Mexico

So how did they get that "giant rock" up into space from NM?

27 posted on 09/02/2003 1:27:04 PM PDT by ASA Vet (1st Vietnam KIA: ASA Sp/4 James T. Davis)
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To: anymouse
I'm setting my Outlook calendar.
28 posted on 09/02/2003 1:28:31 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (It's time for Arnold to stop splitting the Republican vote and step aside for the good of the party)
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To: Poohbah
I was thinking a series of direct surface impacts, 24-hour intervals.

Hit that thing three or four times, it will shatter and then the last blast will scatter the fragments.
29 posted on 09/02/2003 1:28:37 PM PDT by hchutch (The National League needs to adopt the designated hitter rule.)
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30 posted on 09/02/2003 1:28:39 PM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (I seem to be the source of gravity, everything seems to fall on me....)
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To: Lazamataz
Giant Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2014


31 posted on 09/02/2003 1:29:01 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: anymouse
Sounds like a marketing promotion for an explosive upcoming movie, probably one in which Reuters has a financial interest.
32 posted on 09/02/2003 1:30:47 PM PDT by OESY
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To: anymouse
A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014

...and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
33 posted on 09/02/2003 1:31:02 PM PDT by babyface00
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To: anymouse
It's just a government plot to wipe out the unfunded twelve trillion dollar baby boomer social security liability. But don't worry, we're all gonna be wiped out whether it hits or not. Enjoy it while you can. LOL
34 posted on 09/02/2003 1:31:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)
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To: hchutch
I was thinking a series of direct surface impacts, 24-hour intervals.

Doesn't change the numbers any.

Asteroids--even itty-bitty ones--are way too damn big for just a few nukes to do anything.

Hit that thing three or four times, it will shatter and then the last blast will scatter the fragments.

Actually, it wouldn't. There's no air to conduct the blast wave, which means that only radiation pressure will move the rocks--and that's not much of your total energy budget.

35 posted on 09/02/2003 1:31:23 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Actually, it's all a neoconservative plot, put into motion by Bush's oil cronies.
36 posted on 09/02/2003 1:32:15 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
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To: Poohbah
Smarty pants.
37 posted on 09/02/2003 1:33:03 PM PDT by Williams
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To: anymouse
How many of us will be on the ***Free Republic Asteriod Live Thread*** when it impacts earth?
38 posted on 09/02/2003 1:33:25 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Free Miguel, Priscilla and Bill!)
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To: anymouse
I can see the New York Times headlines now: GIANT ASTEROID DESTROYS EARTH: Women and Minorities Especially Hard Hit
39 posted on 09/02/2003 1:34:41 PM PDT by OESY
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To: anymouse
one in 909,000.

Yeah, but people win "1 in 120,526,770 odds" Powerball several times a year.

40 posted on 09/02/2003 1:34:56 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Inconceivable!)
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