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Two *Asteroids* making a close approach Sept 8th, 2010
British Astronomical Association ^
| Sept 6th, 2010
Posted on 09/06/2010 4:49:27 PM PDT by TaraP
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To: TaraP
Exactly.... When the one that hits comes, we wont have a clue. =========================================================
Maybe. However, we have enough amateur astronomers with serious equipment who would probably spot it and spill the beans. If you start to see these guys suddenly disappearing or dying under suspicious circumstances look out. Also, watch the movements of the politicians.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:05:03 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: VanDeKoik
Tonight from the UK (Sep 6/7) this object will be 17th magnitude but by tomorrow (Sep 7/8) it will be brightening rapidly from 16th to 15th magnitude and be accelerating from an apparent speed of about 30 /min to 50 /min. You might have an easier time seeing Pluto with a 3-inch refractor in Times Square!
My 6-inch reflector can barely make out Pluto (13th magnitude) on a good night. 15th magnitude? No way, no how.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:05:08 PM PDT
by
Abin Sur
To: JRios1968
I must say that looks just like Obama.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:05:12 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
To: TaraP
We won’t but the squirrels in charge will be just fine.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:07:20 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
To: TaraP; a fool in paradise
Russia, China and Canada cover most of the earth’s surface. We’re safe living in the Good Ole U.S.
To: Ted Grant
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:11:20 PM PDT
by
TwoLegsGood
("...my sin is ever before me" - King David)
To: TaraP
NY Times headline “Asteroids to Collide with Earth” "It's the End of the World" “Women and Minorities Hit Hardest"
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:13:31 PM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: TaraP
At 0.21 lunar distance won’t that significantly affect its trajectory???
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:29:47 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
To: Manta
I remember one credible study that said we get hit once every hundrd years or so by a Tanguska size object.
The dark ages were caused by one such collision, weren’t they?
The dark ages were a weird weird time...
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:32:51 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
To: Captain Beyond; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks Captain Beyond. I'm going to pick up an extra umbrella.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:36:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: Mr. K
The Tunguska impact was in 1908; since that time there have been detectable impacts in Greenland, a couple in South America, some people and livestock have been killed by fairly small meteorites, the supposed South African nuke test turned out to have been an impact in the Indian Ocean, and for that matter, this:
Rain of Iron and Ice
by John S. Lewis
On November 27,1919, a meteorite fell into Lake Michigan near the Michigan shore. "Residents of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Grand Haven, and other Western Michigan cities fled from their homes in panic, fearing an earthquake. Houses were shaken, the country was illuminated as by a bright sun's rays, so all-enveloping it was impossible to tell from which direction the flare came, the earth trembled for half a moment and then came a deep prolonged rumbling as of a terrific explosion." (p 159)
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:40:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: TaraP
Thanks TaraP! That one is a tiny little thing, 8 meters across, size of a house...
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:41:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: SunkenCiv
the supposed South African nuke test turned out to have been an impact in the Indian Ocean,But I thought some Australian sheep died from fallout. I read it on the internet so it must be true, LOL.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:42:37 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: SunkenCiv
Hmmmmm. Wonder if the area has been studied/excavated etc. There should be lots of little meteorites present.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:50:19 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Gone Galt and loving it)
To: SunkenCiv
Hmmmmm. Wonder if the area has been studied/excavated etc. There should be lots of little meteorites present.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:50:21 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Gone Galt and loving it)
To: The Comedian
Can we change that to DC and Damascus?
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posted on
09/06/2010 8:28:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
To: cmj328
The one that left the crater in Arizona is 1184m wide Latest numbers i read say around 50 meters wide.
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posted on
09/06/2010 8:40:55 PM PDT
by
HP8753
(Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
To: ZULU
one hits Mecca .... is that crowd still hanging out there?
That would show em arse is blackest. Then again they’d read the SIGN wrong.
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posted on
09/06/2010 9:19:46 PM PDT
by
dusttoyou
(Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
To: cmj328; HP8753
>>
The one that left the crater in Arizona is 1184m wide > Latest numbers i read say around 50 meters wide.
Correct -- the 1184m figure is the width of the crater, not of the meteoroid that caused it. That's not to minimize the object -- after all, it weighed around 300,000 tons! (Almost all of which vaporized either during descent or on impact.)
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posted on
09/06/2010 10:03:49 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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