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Nasa video shows just how close asteroid will come to hitting Earth
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| UPDATED: 10:11 EST, 8 February 2013
Posted on 02/09/2013 9:15:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
***its trajectory will take it inside the orbit of communications and weather satellites***
Could this cause an EMP problem? Or mess up satellite communications or throw them off orbit?
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posted on
02/09/2013 10:10:43 AM PST
by
nanetteclaret
(Unreconstructed Catholic Texan)
To: miliantnutcase
At the bottom of
this page there is a list of known earth approaching objects for the next 30 days.
To: colinhester
Got my niece a lower-end but decent model telescope for Christmas. We had one when we were kids, some of my best memories involve being outside in chilly, clear weather, scanning the sky, looking at moon craters and roasting marshmallows. We lived out past the glow of the streetlights, but even that was muted compared to today. Those old bluish mercury vapor lights just didn’t interfere as much. Maybe blue spectrum actually is better than red for night lighting, who’d a thunk, lol.
To: Venturer
There isnt a friggin thing we can do about it.Didn't you watch the Superbowl halftime show? We now possess WADs (Weapons of Asteroid Destruction). Codenamed "Beyonce". We can fire a SUPERSTAR at those pesky asteroids...
PS: 'que sera sera' You sing better than her.
To: BenLurkin
Sooooo what are the odds it hit Washington D.C. or the White Hut?
To: Venturer
Yep. Sometimes assteroids go away by themselves.
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posted on
02/09/2013 10:32:21 AM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: BenLurkin
"No Earth impact is possible"
Unless of course,someone put the decimal point in the wrong place....a common mistake among scientists..
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posted on
02/09/2013 10:55:10 AM PST
by
pricilla
(one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
To: BenLurkin
'No Earth impact is possible,' said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Yeah, and the Titanic couldn't sink either. I worry when scientists make absolute statements such as this.
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:13:21 AM PST
by
calex59
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:18:48 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(No Problem)
To: BenLurkin
"Nasa video shows just how close asteroid will come to hitting Earth" Sooo "Hot Fudge Sundae" will be next Friday instead of the expected Tuesday...
(Ten geek points for anyone who gets the obscure literary reference.)
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:20:52 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg; Mr. Jeeves
See #12, above. The first time I’ve seen the answer posted before the question.
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:28:33 AM PST
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the far North)
To: Dan(9698)
It’s an entirely accurate representation from the POV of the asteroid, or rather a point very near it, which artificially positions itself to keep the object in front of the earth. The stars are accurately depicted, but are hard to identify. I dld’d the “Eyes on the Solar Sytem” NASA app, and it let’s you run this view as well as many others, with various controls available. This includes the ability to turn on constellation labels. At the end, Tucana, Phoenix, and Grus are in view!
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:54:38 AM PST
by
dr_lew
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:59:17 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2013 11:59:40 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Mad Dawgg
It’s not big enough for that.
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posted on
02/09/2013 12:10:55 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
I’m gonna have to reread that novel to see how big
Niven made it
A little dated but keeps me reading till I fall asleep
with the book in my hand
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posted on
02/09/2013 3:03:47 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Read "Lucifer's Hammer" - all of Niven and Pournelle's fictional astrophysicists were telling the media the exact same thing. My wife read this, and it "affected her mind" as one says - i.e. it seemed real to her. I didn't read it, but I recall the jacket blurb, "The odds were one in a million, then they were one in a thousand, and then ..."
So from this, the authors accurately depicted NASA's procedure as we see it in action here, except the improved calculations in this fictional scenario went the wrong way.
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posted on
02/09/2013 9:27:13 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: BenLurkin
"'We don't have all the money in the world to do this kind of work' for tracking and potentially deflecting asteroids, said Lindley Johnson, an executive with the Near-Earth Object observations program in Washington."
Deflect? Deflect it with what? Spitballs?
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Then there is the Discovery channel video of a giant asteroid hitting the Earth, that some wit dubbed with the music Yakkity Sax.Thanks for that link. Good stuff!
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posted on
02/10/2013 4:14:08 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: BenLurkin
For the people on the space station this may
be a bit of worry.
Gonna be interesting to see how this near miss
ends.Hope nothing but some good pics.
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:24:55 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
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