Is It Time To Run Around Monkey Screaming Yet? Asteroid May Hit The Earth in 2015 8000 Megatons

MPML / A list for asteroid and comet research ^ | 6/28/2010 | Andrea Milani

[Dallas59]

The object 2010 KH has been observed only by WISE and currently has a disgusting orbit: semimajor axis = 3.2 +- 3 AU. In fact, it might not even be a NEO. However, by using the available data, we have found Virtual impactors, including one in 2015, of course with a very low impact probability (the asteroid could be almost anywhere, thus we cannot exclude that it could be on top of us at some time in the near future).

Now this situation is very unpleasant. This object possibly does not even exist as a NEO, on the other hand the nominal solution is a NEO with absolute magnitude 18.2. Our way to handle this would be to proclaim that it has not been discovered, and refuse to give credit to WISE and to NASA for such a terrible job. However, as you well know, this kind of decision is not in our hands.

Our job is to report objects which might be impacting the Earth. It is not part of our style to adopt scare tactics to push astronomers to observe asteroids with Virtual Impactors; however, with very simple arithmetics, it can be deduced from our risk page that in case this asteroid was to impact the Earth in 2015, the impact energy is estimated at 8,000 megatons.

[Chode]

i think the one in the video was much larger that the one in the article

[ConservativeMind]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

Could be. The late Gene Shoemaker noted that an object about a mile in diameter (give or take velocity of course, could be larger or smaller) delivers more energy than if one put all the world’s nuclear weapons into one pile and set them off simultaneously.

[bigheadfred]

I wondered why the 7-11 was out of milk and toilet paper this morning.

They have toilet paper in the 7-11's? I thought you just crapped in a hole in the floor and were done.

[Eaker]

The late Gene Shoemaker noted that an object about a mile in diameter (give or take velocity of course, could be larger or smaller) delivers more energy than if one put all the world’s nuclear weapons into one pile and set them off simultaneously.

So Obama's plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons by piling them all up and hitting them with an asteroid needs more though?

[SunkenCiv]

Scientist: Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2029 [ 2004 MN4 ]
Yahoo/AP | 12/23/04 | JOHN ANTCZAK
Posted on 12/23/2004 8:24:16 PM PST by hole_n_one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1307719/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Pretty much any part of the Obamanation’s agenda needs more thought. :’)

[SaraJohnson]

I kinda like running around screaming...so OK

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Burns a lot of calories than sitting in front of the tee vee. ;)

[Chode]

the one in the video was 500km diameter...

[Kickass Conservative]

Great, just when I can start collecting some of the money that Social Security stole from me for the last 45 years.

Geez...

[vamoose]

Al Gore found out about this 4 years ago, except instead of running around like a screaming monkey, he ran around like a sex crazed poodle.

[grey_whiskers]

Aim it at Beijing.

[dalereed]

I don’t give a damn!!!

[doug from upland]

May it hit Chicago or Chappaqua.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Hope this is appropriate for our ping list.

Yes!

[Eye of Unk]

If the Chinese aggressively build a vehicle to “intercept” this then its been proven that it will indeed strike Earth, the Chinese with their capacity to do almost anything of a massive scale will NOT sit by and allow Earth to be impacted by a globally wide calamity.

Watch the Chinese, anything from the MSM will be censored.

[SunkenCiv]

500km would very nearly sterilize the entire surface of the Earth.

[Chode]

watch the impact video in post#24 it's in HD

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Chode!

[Colonel_Flagg]

And Obama will find a way to blame George Bush.

Amazingly depressing video, by the way, but thanks for posting it anyhow.