Scientists predict giant asteroid will collide with our planet at 38,000 miles per hour

The Daily Mail ^ | October 11, 2013 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

[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

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• 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

[Steely Tom]

We’ve got to ditch capitalism.

[dfwgator]

....and I feel fine.

[null and void]

I think my calendar is free that day...

[seeker41]

And an owl hooted...

[John W]

I will be taking that day off.

[Carriage Hill]

TEOLASEWKI... Ping.

The End Of Life As Someone Else Will Know It.

[dfwgator]

So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 2879.

[MUDDOG]

If we can’t stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.

[skinndogNN]

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.

[Veggie Todd]

I wonder if the Obambacare websites will be working by then...

[BlackSeal]

Can somebody here ring me and remind me about this in 2879 please? Thanks!

[BlackSeal]

“I wonder if the Obambacare websites will be working by then…”

LOL

[G Larry]

Fortunately I’ll be vacationing on Mars that weekend.

Note to self: Pack extra underwear.

[Tallguy]

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?

[mountainlion]

Oh Good. Some of those things to 74,000 miles per hour. This slow one will do less damage.

[Proud2BeRight]

Women, children and minorities to be hurt the most.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“If we can’t stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.”

Yup! Stop it, mine it, and shoot what’s left into the Sun.

[dfwgator]

If we can’t stop an asteroid by 2880, we deserve to get wiped out.

[knarf]

We're doomed .. ain't we ?