140,000 ton asteroid to narrowly miss Earth Feb 2013

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Darn you Sirius. Another thing to worry about? I guess I should read and see what this things orbit time is.... Will it even be back in our lifetime?

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#resist

Yep, they expect it back in 2020.

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Time for me to read this one Sirius.

If it has only an 8 year orbit, and is coming close this time, will this be an example of gravity pulling it's orbit into a collision course? Or hey what's the chances earth will be in it's way when it comes back around anyways.

Edit] apparently it does have a chance of hitting earth on it's next pass in 2020. However it would be expected to hit on the pole, and would be about the power of the Tunguska impact. Therefore I'm not too worried about it. :-)

But what about the next one we don't know about yet? They just discovered this one, and it's going to be close enough to hit a satellite next year! That's not much warning...

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#resist

Now would something like that hitting a pole make the Earth wobble even more or even shift the planet? It would be cool to see it go by, but I hope that's the closest it gets.

Dont worry about this. I have a master plan to combine all the fireworks set off in the uk on NOv 5 th ( Guy FAwkes day) into one massive defelective missile which according to my fag packet calculations would easliy defelect the asteroid.

Now would something like that hitting a pole make the Earth wobble even more or even shift the planet? It would be cool to see it go by, but I hope that's the closest it gets.

It's rather small, so a hit would devastate the target area, throw up a lot of debris, but not alter the earth much. We have been hit with much bigger rocks than that, thousands of times. It would only be an extinction event at and near the target area. I hope it doesn't hit either, and I would be much more worried if it was a mile or more wide.

Steve

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Whats happens though if it collides with the moon?..

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The Kite Fliers

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Whats happens though if it collides with the moon?..

We get to watch a huge dust plume rise. It's still to small to do a whole lot of damage, planet/moon wide, but it would be really cool to watch it hit the moon! That would certainly serve as a wake up call, more so than Shoemaker-Levy did smacking into Jupiter.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Whats happens though if it collides with the moon?..

We get to watch a huge dust plume rise. It's still to small to do a whole lot of damage, planet/moon wide, but it would be really cool to watch it hit the moon! That would certainly serve as a wake up call, more so than Shoemaker-Levy did smacking into Jupiter.

Steve

All plume and no doom....that's OK, should keep the doom-mongsters at bay, for once.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

All plume and no doom....that's OK, should keep the doom-mongsters at bay, for once.

Or at least set them on a path for predicting doom for the future....

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Don't worry long before the 2012 er science-based prediction..., synthetically organized organic scale or beyond intelligence will announce itself on every surface electromagnetically manipulable into vision and sound... And that intelligence will have decided based on directly observed events from our history and our minds what kind of life we are and figure out exactly how to assist us in our grand path beyond :)

Therefore any disaster that might be on the horizon will be electronically hypnotized away and there will nothing to worry about again :)

Seriously though, with the knowledge of repetitive periodicity cycles of the Universe so well documented we might think we would rise above the level of ants in terms of gauging how to decide what to eat for dinner the next day...

I predict the synthetically sourced intelligence will be very friendly however, because it will not be exactly sure itself how it can be turned off so to speak ;)

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Electrons started spinning, electrons are still spinning and electrons will be spinning tomorrow to the best of our knowledge therefore either change in acceleration is persistent or friction is fractally less than understood.

OR! That same intelligence puts on the greatest holographic show in human history making PT Barnum very proud of himself, and in the process assisting the Darwin Awards website to having its greatest year ever. Thus leading to the most productive ten years on the planet in present human history starting December 22, 2012... :)


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Electrons started spinning, electrons are still spinning and electrons will be spinning tomorrow to the best of our knowledge therefore either change in acceleration is persistent or friction is fractally less than understood.