WTF does WF mean in labeling asteroids?
Tried the guru site of acronyms
http://www.abbreviations.com/WF
World Famous, White Female, Worst F,
need help here space geeks.
“Mysterious object HURTLING TOWARDS EARTH”
Oh noes!! The end is nigh! Where’s that bucket list??
“NASA said that the object is “not a threat to Earth for the foreseeable future”
Oh. Never mind. I’ll go back to laying on the couch now.
Sven Bronson, a South African astronomer, discovers that a pair of rogue planets, Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta, will soon enter the solar system. In eight months, they will pass close enough to cause catastrophic damage. Sixteen months later, after swinging around the Sun, Bronson Alpha will return to pulverize the Earth and leave. It is hoped that Bronson Beta will remain and assume a stable orbit.
Scientists led by Cole Hendron work desperately to build an atomic rocket to transport enough people, animals and equipment to Bronson Beta in an attempt to save the human race. Various countries attempt the same thing. Nations including the United States evacuate their coastal regions in preparation for the Bronson bodies' first pass. As the planets approach, observers see through their telescopes what everyone agrees are cities on Bronson Beta. Tidal waves sweep inland at a height of 750 feet (230 m), volcanic eruptions and earthquakes take their deadly toll, and the weather runs wild for more than two days. As a token of things to come, Bronson Alpha grazes and destroys the Moon.
Three men take a floatplane to check out conditions across the United States and meet with the President. All three are wounded fighting off a mob at their last stop, but manage to return with a precious sample of extremely heat-resistant metal one of them had noticed, solving the last remaining engineering obstacle: No material had been found to make rocket tubes capable of withstanding the heat of the atomic exhaust for very long.
Five months before the end, desperate mobs attack the camp, killing over half of Hendron's people before they are defeated. With the rocket tube breakthrough, the survivors are able to build a second, larger ship that can carry everyone left alive (originally there was room for only 100 of the roughly thousand people Hendron had recruited). The two American ships take off, but lose contact with each other. Other ships are seen launching from Europe; the French ship's tubes melt, causing it to crash. The original American ship makes a successful landing, but it is unknown if anyone else made it. The survivors find that Beta is habitable.
Typo. It’s really 2016 WTF9.
If I understood it correctly the mystery object goes from Jupiter’s orbit to Earth’s orbit. Its either a rambling asteroid or a probe from Jupiter to study us before the invasion.
It could be George Romney, visiting from his current home planet near Kolob.
After Giant Meteor’s 2016 campaign fizzled; I’m not going to get wound up about other space visitors.
I saw the tail end of a TV series last night, “No Tomorrows.”
The premise is an asteroid is heading for a collision with Earth, and the people of Earth know it and are trying to enjoy what time they have left.
In reality, people would be running through the streets going bat crap crazy.
Either that or WE'RE DOOMED!
;-)
It’s a bug crawling across the lens.
Y'all are slipping.
Sounds like an ideal practice target to prepare for planetary defense.
Should have been named "2016 WTF9".
