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Asteroid Could Hit in 878 Years
Newsday ^
| 4/4/02
| Paul Recer
Posted on 04/04/2002 10:30:58 AM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- A new look at an asteroid orbiting the sun shows it could possibly smash into the Earth with the explosive force of millions of tons of TNT. But experts say the potential impact is still 878 years away, time enough for the speeding space rock to alter its course.
Named 1950 DA, the asteroid -- six-tenths of a mile wide -- is the most threatening to the Earth of all of the known large asteroids, but the odds are only about one in 300 that it would impact the planet, researchers said Thursday in the journal Science.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1950da; asteroid
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ALRIGHTEE THEN! - Remind me in 877 years that it's coming!
To: areafiftyone
Dang it! My Daytimer only goes up to the year 2879...
To: areafiftyone
"This is not an urgent thing," said Giorgini. "We can spend a century thinking about it, another century deciding who is going to do something and then another century figuring out what to do. Three hundred years from now -- we can't even imagine how they will handle the problem."
Kind of like social security reform.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:40:57 AM PST
by
jwalburg
To: areafiftyone
"This is not an urgent thing," said Giorgini. "We can spend a century thinking about it, another century deciding who is going to do something and then another century figuring out what to do. Three hundred years from now -- we can't even imagine how they will handle the problem." Procrastinators. They'll put in a week of all-nighters when the time comes. Human nature will never change that much.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:42:06 AM PST
by
Romulus
To: areafiftyone
Well, ya figure in 878 years we will figure out what to do with it if we are still around. If ya figure how technology has progressed in the last 87.8 years... If it did hit us, would millions of cockroaches and AOL discs be all that survived?
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:43:26 AM PST
by
dogbyte12
To: areafiftyone
Asteroid Could Hit in 878 Years And some stupid democRAT somewhere will still be crowing about the Clinton Legacy.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:43:32 AM PST
by
Slyfox
To: areafiftyone
Thank goodness I still have my Y2K supplies! Uh, what is the shelf life of roman noodles?
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:43:56 AM PST
by
CFW
To: areafiftyone
We can make that a "priority" rock when we begin mining asteroids.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:44:40 AM PST
by
Brett66
To: Romulus
So true. Kinda like my Senior Engineering Project. Hehehe
To: Romulus
We are already ramping up in the middle east for the appocolypse. If we were serious about wooping this astriod when it comes, I think we should worry about how we will preserve the fabric of our present society that long. Seriously, are we going to be around then?
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:46:53 AM PST
by
mconder
To: areafiftyone
Asteroid Could Hit in 878 Years
Daschle criticizes "Presidential inaction", demands hearings
To: mconder
This is obviously another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to keep us distracted by the ongoing recount of Florida votes
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:50:03 AM PST
by
shadeaud
To: areafiftyone
Wake me when it's over
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:50:54 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: areafiftyone
"We can spend a century thinking about it, another century deciding who is going to do something and then another century figuring out what to do. Three hundred years from now -- we can't even imagine how they will handle the problem." "What we are predicting is like figuring out a 15-bank shot in a game of pool," said Giorgini. "We can predict the first 13 banks really well, but it is the last few that we need to know more about."
Scientists will save the earth with 300 years of research in pool halls. The Federal government is expected to pay the costs.
To: Slyfox
Asteroid Could Hit in 878 Years And some stupid democRAT somewhere will still be crowing about the Clinton Legacy.
This would not have happened if Gore won.
To: Ward Smythe
Outlook tells me I have a staff meeting that morning. Somebody else will have to take care of it.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:51:50 AM PST
by
eno_
To: Brett66
Little tiny tommy dashole is blaming this problem on President Bush and asking for a decision on what he is doing about this urget problem.
Things like drilling for oil, tax breaks, military spending, etc. are not near as important a this asteroid problem.
what a stupid little crybaby moron tiny tommt is.
Agggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:52:08 AM PST
by
chiefqc
To: areafiftyone
ROCK MY WORLD... Baby
To: areafiftyone
Explosive force of millions of tons of TNT.
Yawn.
We've detonated nukes more powerful than 100 million tons of TNT in Nevada.
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posted on
04/04/2002 10:52:38 AM PST
by
jae471
To: areafiftyone
A new look at an asteroid orbiting the sun shows it could possibly smash into the Earth with the explosive force of millions of tons of TNT Women and children hardest hit.
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