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Scientists predict giant asteroid will collide with our planet at 38,000 miles per hour
The Daily Mail ^
| October 11, 2013
| Ellie Zolfagharifard
Posted on 10/11/2013 2:46:21 PM PDT by EveningStar
Full title: Could life on Earth end on March 16, 2880? Scientists predict giant asteroid will collide with our planet at 38,000 miles per hour
- Asteroid 1950 DA has a 0.3 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 867 years
- This represents a risk 50% greater than an impact from all other asteroids
- If it were to hit, it would do so with an force of 44,800 megatonnes of TNT
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 1950da; 2880; asteroid; catastrophism; doomsday
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To: EveningStar
We’ve got to ditch capitalism.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:47:13 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:47:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: EveningStar
I think my calendar is free that day...
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:47:52 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:48:03 PM PDT
by
seeker41
(take your country back by whatever means necessary)
To: EveningStar
I will be taking that day off.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:48:10 PM PDT
by
John W
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Kartographer
TEOLASEWKI... Ping.
The End Of Life As Someone Else Will Know It.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:48:27 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: John W
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 2879.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:48:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: EveningStar
If we can’t stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:48:48 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: EveningStar
What are these scientists worried about? If you believe other scientists, climate change is going to kill everyone by 2040.
Of course, they probably realize scientists are full of crap. But we need to give them more money so they can study it.
To: EveningStar
I wonder if the Obambacare websites will be working by then...
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:50:08 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
To: EveningStar
Can somebody here ring me and remind me about this in 2879 please? Thanks!
To: Veggie Todd
“I wonder if the Obambacare websites will be working by then
”
LOL
To: EveningStar
Fortunately I’ll be vacationing on Mars that weekend.
Note to self: Pack extra underwear.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:52:26 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
To: EveningStar
I confess I don’t know much about orbital mechanics, but I do know that you can’t send a spacecraft from the earth to the moon without several course corrections. So my question would be with all the gravitational influences acting on that asteroid, how do we know its trajectory with any degree of certainty over that time period?
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:52:28 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Hunkered down in Pennsylvania)
To: EveningStar
Oh Good. Some of those things to 74,000 miles per hour. This slow one will do less damage.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:52:45 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: EveningStar
Women, children and minorities to be hurt the most.
To: MUDDOG
“If we cant stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.”
Yup! Stop it, mine it, and shoot what’s left into the Sun.
To: MUDDOG
If we cant stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:53:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/11/2013 2:53:49 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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