The sky is falling - run and hide then pray
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Super Nova
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The sky is falling - run and hide then pray
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Super Nova
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Re: The sky is falling - run and hide then pray
What do you think?
If the asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth in ten years time, would they tell us?
21 March 2014 it was due to hit.... I must have missed the news that night.
Asteroid armaggedon 21st March 2014
American astronomers announced today that a new asteroid was discovered on 24 August and named 2003 QQ47. Since then, 51 observations have indicated that the meteor might hit Earth on 21 March 2014.
Asteroid 2003 QQ47 is almost a mile wide, weighing 2.6 billion tonnes, and is traveling toward our solar system at 20 miles per second. The BBC have warned that the impact of the asteroid with the surface of our planet would release an explosion equivalent to a cataclysmic 350,000 megatonne atomic bomb, causing destruction on a continental scale, in an extinction-level event.
Experts hope that the danger level will decline as further observations make their calculations more accurate. However, there is a small possibility that more detailed data obtained over the next few days will confirm their worst fears.
If the asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth in ten years time, would they tell us?
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=402
If the asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth in ten years time, would they tell us?
21 March 2014 it was due to hit.... I must have missed the news that night.
Asteroid armaggedon 21st March 2014
American astronomers announced today that a new asteroid was discovered on 24 August and named 2003 QQ47. Since then, 51 observations have indicated that the meteor might hit Earth on 21 March 2014.
Asteroid 2003 QQ47 is almost a mile wide, weighing 2.6 billion tonnes, and is traveling toward our solar system at 20 miles per second. The BBC have warned that the impact of the asteroid with the surface of our planet would release an explosion equivalent to a cataclysmic 350,000 megatonne atomic bomb, causing destruction on a continental scale, in an extinction-level event.
Experts hope that the danger level will decline as further observations make their calculations more accurate. However, there is a small possibility that more detailed data obtained over the next few days will confirm their worst fears.
If the asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth in ten years time, would they tell us?
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=402
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Super Nova
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Re: The sky is falling - run and hide then pray
Interesting NASA site that reports risk of collisions but note "Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway.
I wonder why...........
I wonder why...........
The following table lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway.
Link to nasa risk table site. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
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