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Isn't it possible for a peice of the Dumbell Size Asteroid coming apart striking earth? who knows maybe it will strike Mecca?


2 posted on 09/28/2004 5:39:07 PM PDT by missyme
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I vote for a large breakup and impact on Mecca, Medina, the Kaaba, Riyadh, Tehran, Falluja, Najaf, Damascas, the eastern part of Ottawa...and PARIS!


7 posted on 09/28/2004 5:49:25 PM PDT by Cornpone ((Aging Warrior))
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To: missyme

Astronomers know of no such impending doom.

If they did, do you suppose they would tell us?


20 posted on 09/28/2004 5:57:01 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Isn't it possible for a peice of the Dumbell Size Asteroid coming apart striking earth?

Even if the asteroid split (called calving), the two pieces would continue in the same orbit unless one of them was influenced by an external force.

Other than tidal forces, I do not see this as a threat. BTW, this object is too small (short) to split via tidal forces.

104 posted on 09/28/2004 8:08:21 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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Oh, sure, look on the bright side. ;')


171 posted on 09/29/2004 7:17:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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