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Impact of asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029 'CANNOT be ruled out' [but pretty much no]
Express UK ^ | Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Sean Martin

Posted on 07/06/2018 1:50:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Using Herschel data, mission scientists have deduced that Apophis is 1,066 feet (325 meters) wide. That’s 20 percent larger than the previous estimate of 885 feet (270 meters). “The 20 percent increase in diameter, from 270 to 325 m, translates into a 75 percent increase in our estimates of the asteroid’s volume or mass,” said Thomas Müller of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and lead scientist of the study.

[Asteroid Apophis Just Got Supersized | 02/09/2014 | SunkenCiv]

1 posted on 07/06/2018 1:50:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

We just need to make sure no doomsday cult with a missile tries to blow it up, or deflect it so it does hit Earth.


2 posted on 07/06/2018 1:55:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'll be long gone by then, but the rest of y'all best duck/cover   :-)
3 posted on 07/06/2018 1:57:10 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: SunkenCiv

Scary close.


4 posted on 07/06/2018 1:57:23 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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These are the topics added to the Catastrophism keyword in the past year or so:

5 posted on 07/06/2018 1:57:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

6 posted on 07/06/2018 1:57:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Tin foil hat and Slim Whitman time?


7 posted on 07/06/2018 1:59:30 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: SunkenCiv

If one were really thought likely to hit earth, how long would it take to design and construct the necessary space technology to destroy or deflect it? Would that be possible? anyone have an opinion?


8 posted on 07/06/2018 2:00:50 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: SunkenCiv

About 1/4 mile wide would be a cataclysmic impact.


9 posted on 07/06/2018 2:05:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Getting something (bomb or big propulsion system) up there on short notice would be feasible, now that we have SpaceX. The likelihood of zero warming though -- in the words of David Morrison, the first notice we receive is a tongue of fire on the horizon, followed by shock waves, etc -- is still highest. Detection is obviously most important. This is just one we know about.

10 posted on 07/06/2018 2:06:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

“If the 27 billion kg asteroid were to hit Earth, scientists calculate that it would leave a crater over a mile wide and a staggering 518 metres deep.”

Okay. So how do we make sure it hits Mecca?


11 posted on 07/06/2018 2:10:02 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: allendale

Could we deflect it towards San Francisco?


12 posted on 07/06/2018 2:10:34 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: SunkenCiv

If the Good Lord sees fit, I’ll be 74 then, so I might get to see it...........unless it’s cloudy...............


13 posted on 07/06/2018 2:11:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: allendale

We could do it in 6 months................


14 posted on 07/06/2018 2:11:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: dragnet2

One landed in the ocean this week.


15 posted on 07/06/2018 2:12:37 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: allendale

Given that it is 27 billion kg (roughly 60 billion pounds), and would create a 880 megaton blast, it is carrying a lot of energy to deflect. The best you could is fire some nuclear warheads to fracture the thing into some smaller pieces, but even that would be problematic.


16 posted on 07/06/2018 2:14:49 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: SunkenCiv

“Mr. Douglas, could I interest you in some Gen-U-whine Asteroid insurance?”

Mr. Haney


17 posted on 07/06/2018 2:18:08 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SunkenCiv

Good timing.

This’ll hit just about when they implement means testing for Social Security.


18 posted on 07/06/2018 2:19:13 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: SunkenCiv
The Palermo Scale is common in approach to the Torino Scale, which I believe provides a better visual approach to seeing where the NEOs plot out:

Apophis has a potential y-axis value of 880. If the average chance of an asteroid impact is 1 in 40,000 and if Apophis' probability is 1000x less than the average, this NEO has an x-axis value of 10 -8.

We're easily in the white / 0 zone. Stand down.

19 posted on 07/06/2018 2:19:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: allendale
"... how long would it take to design and construct the necessary space technology to destroy or deflect it?"

Just the environmental impact statements would take 5-to-10 years...Then add another 10-years for constructing and testing...

On FR I stated, 13-years ago, that the government was probably lying through their teeth about the size and impact probability...They haven't changed a bit...

20 posted on 07/06/2018 2:21:07 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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