Posted on 12/23/2004 8:24:16 PM PST by hole_n_one
> ...I'll be 58.
Yeah, but 5+8=13.
Quite agree, many will be made up of (in the words of Mister Spock) "unremarkable ores". The crossers are bound to be similarly populated. Priority should still be given to intercepting and moving those which are a danger to the Earth (assuming of course an adequate effort is made to discover and identify everything out there). Even one asteroid with, uh, remarkable ores, has mineral riches exceeding those of most countries, and here and there, some asteroids probably have more of a given ore than is known on the entire Earth. That should pay for the development.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/CloseApp.html
The study assumed pretty much an average, common type of composition. A mile across would be perfect, and it could be ordinary rock. There is a lot of good stuff in a cubic mile of almost anything. If the composition were unusual, such as carbonacious, of course that would be epochial.
Piling on...
April 13th, 2029
04/13/2029
29-20=9
9+4=13
Now, dig this:
13 x 13 x 13 = 2197 Thirteen cubed
2197-2029=168 minus the year of potential impact
168 = 12 x 14 yields a number that is the product of the two integers adjacent to...
13
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
That's cuz you never had one.
The 351 Windsor linked up through the C6 automatic was actually a fairly potent package, properly built up. Made for a real "sleeper" if you kept the exhaust note quiet. Of course, you could also get the fastback Cobra model with the big block and REALLY smoke your tires off.
My family had a '69 GT sedan and it was always a blast on the open road. Sold it to some H.S. kid two years before I got old enough to drive. It probably wound up in a wrecking yard a couple of years later.
Oh great! My first year of retirement I die.
Touche.
Of course I was making a poor joke on the name of a great car. By the way, my first car was a '71 Olds 442; why oh why in God's name did I sell it?
Maybe the 9 mpg during the Arab Oil Embargo?
Hey, if it's epochial, won't it stick to everything?
[rimshot!]
So, if the Earth were struck by an asteroid of highly unusual composition, would that be epochalyptic?
> ...why in God's name did I sell it?
Don't be too hard on yourself. That '69 Torino GT we sold is worth nearly $10K in good condition, if it survived the school kid that bought it; double that if it's been kept spotless.
My Mother had a '55 'Bird. Black. Corinthian white interior. Continental kit. 292cid V8. Sold it. It'd be worth about $38K right now in good condition, and as much as $64K if excellent.
My uncle was at a Ford dealership in the Twin Cities (don't know which one) late in 1963. The dealer had TWO brand-new Galaxy 500 GT convertibles on the lot, each with a four speed box, and a factory massaged 427 V8 cranking out 410hp. Well, being convertibles in the middle of heavy snow country, they weren't selling. My uncle bought both of them and brought them to California to sell. One of them went almost immediately, but he had to go back home before he could sell the second one. So, my grandparents bought it from him. Next thing ya know, here's my grandmother, who would have been in her early fifties at the time, rolling down to the grocery store past the high school with the tranny in second and the big 427 V8 just loping along on its hot cams, and all the high school guys standing dumbfounded at the curb with their jaws on the ground.
Well, true to our family idiom, they sold that car before I ever even saw it. It's worth a bit over $19K in good shape; over $30K if it's primo.
I guess the bottom lie is this: If ya got one, keep it. They truly do NOT make them like that anymore.
That's funny and I wonder how many of us have stories like that--my grandmother was in her 60s when I was a teenager, and she used to let me drive her Barracuda, can't remember which year, but the one with the HUGE long back window (mid to late 60s sometime). It definitely got attention when you drove it around.
two close approaches (two objects) for today, but more than 2,790,000 miles for the closer of the two.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
2000 SG344
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2000sg344.html
99942 2004 MN4
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1307719/posts?q=1&&page=251
2004 VD17
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004vd17.html
1994 WR12
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/1994wr12.html
Monthly bump.
Astronomers Find a New Planet in Solar System
The New York Times | 7/29/05 | KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 07/29/2005 3:35:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1453462/posts
Let us hope it hits Mecca dead-on.
Upcoming Close Approaches To Earth
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
99942 2004 MN4
Earth Impact Risk Summary
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
Looks like, on April 13 2036, current calcs say it will approach within 0.53 Earth radii.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
1 in 5,560 chance, one close approach
April 13, 2036, 0.55 Earth radii
99942 Apophis is the official name now, not sure I mentioned that before.
just a bttt.
Astronauts push for strategies, spacecraft to prevent cosmic collision
Flagstaff Arizona Sun | 11/06/2005 | Marcia Dunn
Posted on 11/06/2005 5:53:40 PM PST by Graybeard58
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1517000/posts
The Planetary Report article from last summer, outlining the problem and explaining why we may need a mission to it in the next decade to determine if it is really a problem in time to prevent a disaster, is finally online here.
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