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 Julie  Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 
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First 2014 Asteroid Discovered: Update Early this year - for just the second time in history - an asteroid was discovered before it impacted the Earth. Quite harmless though, it was very small, probably just a few meters across, and burned up harmlessly in our atmosphere. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 
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Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet, a solar system body bigger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet. http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/herschel/ceres-20140122/index.html#.UuBLBvtMHSc |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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There is a mission going to Ceres, Dawn. It should arrive in 2015. Tullio |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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There is a mission going to Ceres, Dawn. It should arrive in 2015. Thanks Tullio! |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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A gigantic asteroid nearly 900 feet wide will race past planet Earth tonight, a harmless but sobering reminder of the dangers posed by such interplanetary visitors. |
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draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0 
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there is any way what we can do, if know, asteroid going to hit earth? i suppose - no ( except a sent to it Bruce Willis with dynamite :D ). and from another side - there is already too many human beings on that planet. and even our civilization is ugly planet killer really - maybe it is better to take a hit from cosmos and start all from scratch? maybe then result be a better, than that, who we see around now? |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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there is any way what we can do, if know, asteroid going to hit earth? That's why Orbit@home is, was, (will be) a very important project(again)! http://orbit.psi.edu/ rOZZ Music Pictures |
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draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0
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i do not see, why it can be important. ok, you do know, after a week or month, or a year gigantic asteroid, say 1 km in diameter, with possibility of 0.972 hit the earth. and what? all what that information do for you - you can be ready to die... there is not any possibility to change that asteroid trajectory, or anihillate them... |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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i do not see, why it can be important. Humans are an inquisitive species. There's a reason why we do so much research you know. You're probably right though that we won't be able to stop an asteriod on it's collision course with earth. Real life isn't like the movies unfortunately... rOZZ Music Pictures |
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draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0
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>There's a reason why we do so much research you know. yes, without doubt. and many of that research is designed to got money, funds and so on - nothing good to humanity or civilization. like a all experiments with hydrogen fuel on internal combustion engines, who is idiotism by itself... as so, there is a good way to try to see right, primary reason, why that or another project has created and run. not always it be running for that reason, who is declared worldwide...sadly, but most humans is no sapiens. and almost all is no good, trustable, creatures.... imho. all facts around us every day say it. |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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Bob DeWoody  Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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Two million miles, in the galactic scheme of things, that was close. Personally I hope that the collective genius of the scientific and engineering community will be able to find a way to divert or destroy the big one when it is detected. Also maybe by then mankind will have spread out to colonize other planets or moons in the solar system so that if a planet killer heads earth's way some of us will survive. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37656 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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The moon has taken another hit for us. http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036 Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds. Cheers. |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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The moon has taken another hit for us. Earth got lucky! |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37656 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489
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The moon has taken another hit for us. Apparently so. ;-) Cheers. |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Earth is in for a close call. Asteroid 2014 DX110 is set to fly between the Earth and the moon Wednesday. Slooh Space Camera will broadcast the flyby live starting at 4 p.m. EST on March 5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/asteroid-2014-dx110-flyby-march-live-video_n_4898936.html |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37656 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489
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Earth is in for a close call. Damn! I won't get to see it as that will be 11am tomorrow morning here and it's suppose to be raining (I'll just have to remember to what the broadcast). :-( Cheers. |
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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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The moon has taken another hit for us. I wish that it had been a larger impact. Something that would rattle the politicians cages even more than Shoemaker/Levy 9 did when it hit Jupiter. Just imagine a large strike on the moon visible in daylight. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34065 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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The moon has taken another hit for us. Quite a spectacle that would be! Those Blood Moons are more 'common' it seems: http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-blood-moon-lunar-eclipses-2014-2015 rOZZ Music Pictures |
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