[dirtboy]

Scientist: Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2029

Well, that would be one way to take care of our problems with Social Security and Medicare.

[NavyCanDo]

Oh great! My first year of retirement I die.

[SunkenCiv]

2000 SG344
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2000sg344.html

99942 2004 MN4
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1307719/posts?q=1&&page=251

2004 VD17
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004vd17.html

1994 WR12
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/1994wr12.html

[montag813]

Let us hope it hits Mecca dead-on.

[SunkenCiv]

for laughs...

Former Military Air Traffic Controller Claims Comet Collision with Earth on May 25, 2006
U.S. Newswire (a press release service) via Yahoo | Apr 13 | Dr. Michael Salla
Posted on 04/21/2006 10:54:42 PM EDT by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1619315/posts?page=243

[SunkenCiv]

It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time [Asteroid]
The Guardian (UK) | December 7, 2005 | by Alok Jha
Posted on 12/06/2005 9:59:40 PM EST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535383/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Asteroids: Deadly Impact National Geographic

[SunkenCiv]

It has declined to 1 in 23,000 chance.

Asteroid risk to Earth lowered, scientists say
by Alan Boyle
May 18, 2006

After a fresh round of radar observations, astronomers said Thursday that the chances of a catastrophic asteroid impact in the year 2036 are lower than previously thought -- and they're hoping the threat will be completely ruled out once more readings are made. The chances of collision with the asteroid Apophis in 2036 now stand at 1 in 24,000, said Steve Chesley, an expert on near-Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That's a significant advance from the previous orbital predictions, which set the odds of impact at 1 out of about 6,000... Astronomers estimate its diameter at about 1,300 feet (400 meters) -- which means a collision would spark a regional catastrophe, though not a global extinction event on the scale of the dinosaurs' demise... Apophis is a special case because it spends most of its time within Earth's orbit, making observations difficult... "We were able to improve our understanding of its motion by about 6 millimeters per second," Giorgini.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's a clip from a link posted on that more recent Apophis topic a few posts back.

We Must Decide to Do It:
The Saga of Asteroid 2004 MN4
by Rusty Schweickart
The Planetary Society

This article was originally printed in the July/August 2005 issue of The Planetary Report... Another, more subtle result of this situation is that for several years at a time, MN4 and Earth orbit the Sun relatively close to each other, but then for extended periods (6–7 years), the two are far enough apart that regardless of MN4's position with respect to the Sun, it's too far away to see with our telescopes. We are now about a year from beginning one of those extended periods when we will get little new information to further refine the orbit of MN4... Our best information indicates that in the fading twilight on April 13, 2029, Londoners will be able to see MN4 with their naked eyes... What will be invisible to all of us on that evening is the 28-degree turn that MN4 will take as it whizzes past us. MN4 will end up in quite a different orbit on April 14 from what it had on April 12, shifting from an orbit 323 days long to one of about 428 days. Exactly what its new orbital period will be depends on precisely how far behind Earth it passes on April 13... If, by chance, MN4 passes by Earth so that its new orbit has a period of about 426.125 days, the asteroid and Earth will come back to the identical orbital positions in exactly seven years. MN4, however, will have taken precisely six orbits of the Sun to do so, while Earth took seven. In this situation, called a resonance orbit, two bodies orbit the Sun in periods that are exact multiples (with low values) of each other.

This antedates the two most recent refinements to the orbit.

[dfwgator]

"And monkeys may fly out of my butt."

[KoRn]

Guess there's no point in quitting smoking then. Time to go get a few credit cards and some loans.

[JCEccles]

The earth has been struck countless times in the past and will get hit again. Somewhere spinning in the deep cold blackness of space is a huge rock that has our number on it I've long found it interesting that Book of Revelation, much maligned by the secular priests of the world, describes a remarkably similar event in our future and was boldly making the prediction long before scientists were willing to accept asteroid impacts as fact. Rev. 8:8 "And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood; and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed."

[samm1148]

Just take a poll--democrats and Bushbots believe what those things say. So if a majority of Americans dont beleive an asteroid will hit the earth, then it wont.

Hell if you dont want the sun to rise tomorrow just take a poll on that too while you are at it.

[SunkenCiv]

This is a very old topic. Just posting an update.

Apophis is still 1:45,000, mentioned here with many others.

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[SunkenCiv]

Asteroid composition is determined
United Press International

U.S. scientists for the first time have determined the composition of a near-Earth asteroid... called Apophis, which has a very slight possibility of someday hitting our planet. They said knowing what an asteroid is made of could be one important factor in deciding what to do about such an impending collision... On April 13, 2029, Apophis will come relatively close to Earth, missing the planet by about 22,000 miles. But when it comes by again in 2036, there is a very small possibility -- about one chance in 45,000 -- that it could be on a collision course. Apophis, containing the minerals pyroxene and olivine, is about 270 meters wide, but could devastate an area as large as France, or if it struck at sea, generate tsunamis.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Surprise Asteroid Makes Near-Miss of Earth (Missed by 40,000 miles)
Fox News | 3-2-09
Posted on 03/02/2009 10:10:14 AM PST by puffer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197381/posts

[Secret Agent Man]

...wow, slow news day...

Besides will any of us be alive to see it then?