ODD ASTEROID

spaceweather.com ^ | april-15-2003 | spaceweather.com

[green team 1999]

ODD ASTEROID:

On April 7th, astronomers discovered a near-Earth asteroid following a curious path around the Sun. The orbit of 2003 GQ22 is nestled almost entirely inside Earth's own.

"2003 GQ22 is nearly a member of the elusive inner-Earth object group, for which there is thought to be several members, but only one discovered to date (2003 CP20)," says Donald Yeomans, the manager of JPL's Near Earth Object Program.

Inner-Earth asteroids start out like most space rocks--orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

But over the course of time, perhaps hundreds of millions of years or longer, they are nudged inward by gravitational tugs from Jupiter, Mars and Earth itself.

On 15 Apr 2003 there were 505 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

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[green team 1999]

big enough to wipe a large city

[green team 1999]

(=^;^=)

[Malsua]

The Ptavvs of Larry Niven's book Footfall would have an excellent use for this one.

(The bombarded the planet with all sort of space objects before making landfall)

[Frank_Discussion]

2003AS30 - That would mean you were the 30th person born in 2003. What, you were born yesterday? :-)

[Frank_Discussion]

BTW, Nice Handle ya got there... Ever think about joining the Moon Society? Not kidding - It's a good group of folks.

[theFIRMbss]

>The Ptavvs of Larry Niven's book Footfall would have an excellent use for this one.

Don't worry. I bought
an outsider ray device
that will protect us.

On the other hand,
I'm usually so busy
doing rishathra

that I may forget
to leave the protective rays
switched on properly...

[Havoc]

Of course, this is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
It will somehow make Dims look bad for mouthing their views causing them to say vile things (lies and nasty epithets) so as to appear morally superior to those they villify everyday. But I digress. Probably an instrumentation glitch combined with the desire to see something that isn't there - brought on by high caffeine levels and not enough sleep. Hmm, kinda describes liberal thinking, doesn't it.

[blam]

Not to worry. They never come here.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Hillary's big ass is involved here. I just know it.

[Nexus]

That crater is a tap on the shoulder compared to what has/will happen...

[blam]

Did Asteroids And Comets Turn The Tides Of Civilization?

[Nexus]

Here's a good one:

Manicouagan
Quebec, Canada
51°23'N, 68°42'W;
original rim diameter: ~100 km
Age: 210 ± 4 million years

[blam]

Yup. I'm a catastrophist so, I'm familiar with all the craters.

[Militiaman7]

Just what does "Bush" know about this and when did he know it?

[green team 1999]

clinton-"for god sake condemm their actions"

[SunkenCiv]

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[Robert A Cook PE]

If there are 505 such asteroids, this is certainly an odd asteroid.

On the other hand, when they discover the next one, does the whole group become even asteroids, or do only half of them become even asteroids, and the other half stay odd asteroids?

If half of this group are already even asteroids, does that mean there are really 1010 earth-threatening asteroids total?

[LIConFem]

It's not an asteroid. My nephews have been playing with their potato gun again ;o)

[Cyber Liberty]

If you have 505-odd asteroids on a table, and 504 of them fall off, what do you have left? An odd or an even?

[Robert A Cook PE]

But that couldn't happen.

(Only the round ones would roll off the table. The odd ones and the even ones would still be on the table.)