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Newfound Asteroid to Buzz Earth Thursday.....
Fox News ^ | April 7th, 2010

Posted on 04/07/2010 9:40:30 AM PDT by TaraP

A newly discovered asteroid will zip close by Earth Thursday, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet even though it is passing within the orbit of the moon.... A newly discovered asteroid will zip close by Earth Thursday, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet even though it is passing within the orbit of the moon.

The asteroid, called 2010 GA6, is a relatively small space rock about 71 feet wide and was discovered by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Az. The space rock will fly within the orbit of the moon when it passes Earth Thursday at 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT), but NASA astronomers said not to worry...the planet is safe.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010ga6; astronomy; ateroid; catastrophism; nasa; whenworldscollide; wormwood
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1 posted on 04/07/2010 9:40:30 AM PDT by TaraP
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2 posted on 04/07/2010 9:41:07 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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This too...

NOAA forecasters estimate a 45% chance of geomagnetic activity and a 10% chance of severe geomagnetic storms around the Arctic Circle during the next 24 hours. The source of this activity is a fast and gusty solar wind stream that has been blowing around Earth for two days. [


3 posted on 04/07/2010 9:42:11 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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NASA astronomers said not to worry...the planet is safe.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CLIMATE?!!!!

4 posted on 04/07/2010 9:42:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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The Climate?

That’s Toast........


5 posted on 04/07/2010 9:42:50 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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“Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon’s orbit occur every few weeks,” said Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in a statement.

Never mind.


6 posted on 04/07/2010 9:43:25 AM PDT by DManA
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April 6th taken in Russia
7 posted on 04/07/2010 9:44:08 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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NOVA had a TV program on this week that detailed the history of telescopes. Fascinating. It is amazing how powerful telescopes have become in the recent past.


8 posted on 04/07/2010 9:44:15 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NOVEMBER-2-2010!)
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Bush’s fault!


9 posted on 04/07/2010 9:44:23 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
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“the planet is safe”

well, duh...

“the planet” will not be “destroyed” until God Himself decides it’s time to remake it.


10 posted on 04/07/2010 9:45:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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The Anointed One has declared the Earth to be an asteroid free zone in the Solar System. Allah be praised... /s
11 posted on 04/07/2010 9:45:33 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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Is that Goku?


12 posted on 04/07/2010 9:45:36 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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I also heard a person from the USGS on the news that earthquakes over 7.0 happen every month...

*Scratching head*


13 posted on 04/07/2010 9:46:34 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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NASA astronomers said not to worry...the planet is safe.

The people are f'd.

14 posted on 04/07/2010 9:47:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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But there is a 99 44/100% chance it will crash into the White House. BumRocks attract each other. Courtesy of out-of-business NASA`s parting shot.


15 posted on 04/07/2010 9:48:07 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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Clearly the fault of AGW. Calling Lord Algore!


16 posted on 04/07/2010 9:49:27 AM PDT by ssaftler (America feared a third "W" term, and got a second "Jimmuh" term instead.)
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The source of this activity is a fast and gusty solar wind stream that has been blowing around Earth for two days.
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
17 posted on 04/07/2010 9:51:19 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Be cool if it sucked up all the moonbats.


18 posted on 04/07/2010 9:52:18 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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I also heard a person from the USGS on the news that earthquakes over 7.0 happen every month...

*Scratching head*

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

Magnitude 8.0 to 9.9 7.0 to 7.9 6.0 to 6.9
2000 1 14 146
2001 1 15 121
2002 0 13 127
2003 1 14 140
2004 2 14 141
2005 1 10 140
2006 2 9 142
2007 4 14 178
2008 0 12 168
2009 1 16 142
2010 1 4 53

19 posted on 04/07/2010 9:53:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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I would love to see a graphic displaying the frequency of earthquakes over the past 100 years. I suspect there is nothing unusual going on but I’d like to see some hard data on it.


20 posted on 04/07/2010 9:54:35 AM PDT by DManA
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