Posted on 10/12/2021 10:20:54 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Apophis will still pass by the Earth in 2029 – specifically on April 13 – at a distance less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) from the Earth's surface.
The massive asteroid known as 99942 Apophis was once considered among the most dangerous asteroid in space, with the potential to strike Earth very high. When it was discovered, the 370-meter asteroid's trajectory towards the planet made many fear that an impact could actually happen.
Ultimately, however, this situation now seems unlikely thanks to additional data gathered by astronomers. As such, NASA has declared the planet free of risk from any asteroid impact for the next century.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Dang.
So now it’s a race? Asteroid vs Climate change destroying muvver erf?
So we will not make it the 9.27 years we have left to stop global climate change because we will be wiped out by an asteroid? Damn!
Two things. We are finding new asteroids with large orbits which we have not seen in hundreds of years. Some have shown up this year that we did not even know existed. And secondly, there is always the combination. An asteroid can hit another object and part of that combination can form new orbits and they could hit earth. We seem to be fine as long as everything keeps its orbit and hits nothing else. The reality is that space things are hitting other space things all the time. And you cannot mathematically calculate the orbit of the pieces. You just have to wait and see the outcome.
Could the Magnus force be created on the asteroid via small ion engines? Use the engines to increase the rotation enough to change the trajectory by a fraction of a degree now so that the delta is large enough to miss in 2029?
In that case, I am buying a pack of Luckies, some 18 -year-old Scotch, and a Hemicuda.
Any nuclear explosion would have to be planned to occur far enough away from earth to ensure that Earth would not get too strong of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would know out electrical grids.
I thought apophis was to hit in 2025? I like Tom Horn. He talks about this alot.
Climate change is a joke. CO2 is good for the world. We have had more of it before. And we have had less of it. We have been warmer and we have been colder. Tropical plant fossils have been found in northern Russia and Northern Canada. And ice caps went down to the Mediterranean sea. There aren’t more or less creatures now. There are different numbers of creatures and different types of creatures. And those creatures go extinct all the time. Every single year.
But when a big rock hits the earth, watch out. Things change immediately. And for a long time. And a big rock will hit the earth sooner or later. Look at Mars. That was a much bigger planet with water and an atmosphere. Now its a frozen rock. In fact it could have been the source of life on earth. But now its a frozen rock missing a large chunk with almost no atmosphere. Something hit it.
“We seem to be fine as long as everything keeps its orbit and hits nothing else.”
Actually, with slight and typical deviation, Apophis could be a serious problem in 2029.
It can neither be discounted nor written off.
Wormwood?
“I thought apophis was to hit in 2025? I like Tom Horn. He talks about this alot.”
Nope, Horn is consistently wrong. This article about 2029 being a potential problem is actually accurate.
That’s what I’ve been wondering about. These asteroids are pulled and pushed with the outer planets gravity.
It seems very likely they are going to clang and bounce off off each other and what happens after that can’t be predicted.
You say Mars could have been the source of life on earth, and not God. Genesis has no place in your view I take it.
April 13, 2029.
I like Horn too, but lately I’m starting to wonder if he’s nothing more than a sensationalist.
I will say that he and Cris Putnam did predict that Benedict would resign back about a decade ago.
Wormwood?
But now its (Mars) a frozen rock missing a large chunk with almost no atmosphere. Something hit it.
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The really interesting part : like our moon, it is only heavily cratered on one side ...
I'll be dead.
and what good does it do to tell us this ?
We can't stop it.
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