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Post by Nemesis on Jul 24, 2002 5:48:44 GMT -5
Astronomers discovered on 5th of juli that an asteroid may collide with Earth, 1st of Ferbuary 2019.
Asteroid NT7 travels arround the sun in 837, orbitting between Earth and Mars. But once in a while the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit, and that may cause the colission in 2019. Though the asteroid can vanage a whole continent and change Earth's climate, the chance of hitting Earth is verry little. According to Dr. Donald Yeomans (NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory) 'uncertainties are large'.
Ofcourse the whole thing changes if there's a lil kamikaze-alien inside hovering towards Earth... ;D
more info can be found at:
BBC; Space rock 'on collision course'
NASA; Impact Risk
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 24, 2002 8:57:10 GMT -5
arent there like 35 of those warnings in a week?
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 24, 2002 9:32:30 GMT -5
Not this big. Didnt ye check the links?
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 24, 2002 9:46:18 GMT -5
just did...
and it says that it will probably be proved wrong in future observations...
anyhow its too early to tell...
oh and i just noticed its gonna happen in me 31 birthday...
hhmmm...
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Post by Chaos_Childe on Jul 24, 2002 10:29:52 GMT -5
Maybe it will crash your bithday party? ;D  ;D But seriously I don't think that there is too much of a reason to get concerned with several tens of millions of kilometres margin of error on its trajectory it could easily miss us on either side of the planet... |
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Post by Bennu on Jul 24, 2002 10:33:33 GMT -5
And even if it was gonna hit what could we do? Strap Ben Affleck to a nuke and launch it at the rock?
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 24, 2002 10:38:55 GMT -5
Noooo ill bump it back into space ;D
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Post by Bennu on Jul 24, 2002 10:46:10 GMT -5
hehehe i know i got it. the solution. We need to build the worlds largest trampoline!!!! yeah it could work!!!!!!! ;D
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 24, 2002 10:54:20 GMT -5
right.. ever thought about it has to STRETCH.. the dern asteroid travels 28km/sec (17.5 mile/second).. (
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Post by Bennu on Jul 24, 2002 11:04:51 GMT -5
OK we get a really big baseball bat!
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Post by Bennu on Jul 24, 2002 11:18:40 GMT -5
But seriously though, (just for a second) if one of the big ones hit earth there would be so little we could do to stop it. The significance of the impact could quite easily wipe us out, with drastic changes in environment and so on. Why worry till it is on a direct course to us?
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Post by Teej on Jul 25, 2002 0:26:35 GMT -5
I'm sure we will think of something in time. We have more than 15 years to think of something. Plus, I doubt it will hit us. If it does come after us I say we strap rockets on one side of the planet and move the Earth out of the way!  Teej |
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 25, 2002 10:48:51 GMT -5
Bennu, the chance it will hit is THAT small that we shouldnt bother about it. And noooo it wont wipe us out if. Itll only wipe out one continent. ;D
Teej, when we'd move Earth, we are in even more trouble. Move Earth and you will get huge climatechanges.. possibly leading to enxtinction of mankind. 
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Post by Bennu on Jul 25, 2002 11:11:52 GMT -5
It is not the physical impact of the rock that could wipe us out, but the potentially severe climatic changes. All dependant on where it struck of course  It is theorised that a large enough body hitting a land mass could cause something similar to a nuclear winter filling the skies with dust wreaking havoc with our eco-system. And again i quote the last part of my post. Why worry till it is on a direct course to us ? |
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Post by Chaos_Childe on Jul 25, 2002 11:54:03 GMT -5
It is one of the theories that caused the extiniction of the Dinosaurs....
So it could happen as Bennu says
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;D
It is theorised that a large enough body hitting a land mass could cause something similar to a nuclear winter filling the skies with dust wreaking havoc with our eco-system.