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Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth (Asteroid 2005 YU 55)
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| 11/4/11
| Irene Klotz - Reuters
Posted on 11/04/2011 12:09:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:16:06 PM PDT
by
Doctor 2Brains
(If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
To: NormsRevenge
For Gawds Sakes! Somebody do something!!!!
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:20:42 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals vote like clowns walking thru a mindfield, oblivious to the consequences.)
To: NormsRevenge
"I got a rock."
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:21:20 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: NormsRevenge
"Why am I the only guy you call on when these things are aiming at Earth?"
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:25:15 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:29:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: cripplecreek
Too bad it misses the moon. That would be a spectacular sight!
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:30:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: cripplecreek
Too bad that the moon wasn’t in line for a direct hit. I wonder if we could see that if it did happen?
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:31:04 PM PDT
by
halo66
To: BenLurkin
If it happened in the right place we’d get a hell of a meteor shower if it didn’t kick up any really big chunks.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:33:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: NormsRevenge
The asteroid is heading to Earth and will wipe out all life. It can only be stopped by a nuke delivered by NASA.
Ron Paul has announced his opposition because military actions are not covered in NASA’s charter and would be unconstitutional.
/s
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:34:39 PM PDT
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
To: icwhatudo
Ron Paul has announced his opposition because military actions are not covered in NASA’s charter and would be unconstitutional.It's actually not an asteriod....it's the mother ship coming to take Ron Paul back home.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:37:11 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: icwhatudo
No preemptive strikes on asteroids!!!!
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:37:15 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: Allegra
asteriod = asteroid
Blaming the smart-phone again. :-D
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:38:11 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: cripplecreek
I am no astronomer, but I find that graphic interesting in that I see no deviation due to gravity. Seems like the earth should pull it a little closer to earth.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:38:46 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: NormsRevenge
Asteroids are a far more credible extinction-level threat than global warming. But doing the work needed to detect and divert large earth-bound asteroids doesn’t provide opportunities for the Left to take even more control of the economy and how people live their lives, so the issue doesn’t get nearly the attention or funding it deserves.
To: icwhatudo
and Schumer gets in front of camera after camera, whining that Republicans denied for the bill to authorize the action.
riders to the bill included DREAM Act, free diapers, mandatory unionization of students and a tax on good clean fun
To: MPJackal
That’s because its a very simple graphic and any deviation caused by its close flyby is probably too small to be noticable on that small of a scale.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:40:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: halo66
If it isnt on the side we cant see, it would be an awesome sight. Bright flash, tons of lunar soil that would go flying out into space.
Depending on how big this asteroid is, it might create a dust tail flowing out from the moon that would be easily visible, or some might get pulled into our atmosphere for a spectacular meteorite show.
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posted on
11/04/2011 12:42:20 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: NormsRevenge
YU 55. Not to be confused with the Yugo 55.
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