Posted on 12/23/2004 8:24:16 PM PST by hole_n_one
thanks
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for laughs...
Former Military Air Traffic Controller Claims Comet Collision with Earth on May 25, 2006
U.S. Newswire (a press release service) via Yahoo | Apr 13 | Dr. Michael Salla
Posted on 04/21/2006 10:54:42 PM EDT by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1619315/posts?page=243
It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time [Asteroid]
The Guardian (UK) | December 7, 2005 | by Alok Jha
Posted on 12/06/2005 9:59:40 PM EST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535383/posts
Asteroids:
Deadly Impact
National Geographic
Asteroid risk to Earth lowered, scientists sayAfter a fresh round of radar observations, astronomers said Thursday that the chances of a catastrophic asteroid impact in the year 2036 are lower than previously thought -- and they're hoping the threat will be completely ruled out once more readings are made. The chances of collision with the asteroid Apophis in 2036 now stand at 1 in 24,000, said Steve Chesley, an expert on near-Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. That's a significant advance from the previous orbital predictions, which set the odds of impact at 1 out of about 6,000... Astronomers estimate its diameter at about 1,300 feet (400 meters) -- which means a collision would spark a regional catastrophe, though not a global extinction event on the scale of the dinosaurs' demise... Apophis is a special case because it spends most of its time within Earth's orbit, making observations difficult... "We were able to improve our understanding of its motion by about 6 millimeters per second," Giorgini.
by Alan Boyle
May 18, 2006
Without the Kyoto Treaty? Mon Deu, how is this possible?
This antedates the two most recent refinements to the orbit.We Must Decide to Do It:This article was originally printed in the July/August 2005 issue of The Planetary Report... Another, more subtle result of this situation is that for several years at a time, MN4 and Earth orbit the Sun relatively close to each other, but then for extended periods (67 years), the two are far enough apart that regardless of MN4's position with respect to the Sun, it's too far away to see with our telescopes. We are now about a year from beginning one of those extended periods when we will get little new information to further refine the orbit of MN4... Our best information indicates that in the fading twilight on April 13, 2029, Londoners will be able to see MN4 with their naked eyes... What will be invisible to all of us on that evening is the 28-degree turn that MN4 will take as it whizzes past us. MN4 will end up in quite a different orbit on April 14 from what it had on April 12, shifting from an orbit 323 days long to one of about 428 days. Exactly what its new orbital period will be depends on precisely how far behind Earth it passes on April 13... If, by chance, MN4 passes by Earth so that its new orbit has a period of about 426.125 days, the asteroid and Earth will come back to the identical orbital positions in exactly seven years. MN4, however, will have taken precisely six orbits of the Sun to do so, while Earth took seven. In this situation, called a resonance orbit, two bodies orbit the Sun in periods that are exact multiples (with low values) of each other.
The Saga of Asteroid 2004 MN4
by Rusty Schweickart
The Planetary Society
"And monkeys may fly out of my butt."
Guess there's no point in quitting smoking then. Time to go get a few credit cards and some loans.
I'll be 75 and I do believe I'll take notice!!
13Hmmm... I was born on a Friday the 13th, so I guess Bush is off the hook this time. It's all my fault.
Put it on your Blog, PAGE ONE, LOL!
I understand..........
Just take a poll--democrats and Bushbots believe what those things say. So if a majority of Americans dont beleive an asteroid will hit the earth, then it wont.
Hell if you dont want the sun to rise tomorrow just take a poll on that too while you are at it.
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