Asteroid terror: NASA spot mammoth space rock to hit Earth's orbit five days before X-mas

Express ^ | Dec 23, 2019

[I want the USA back]

On the a$$hole scale of 1 - 10, this article rates a 10. It starts with a deliberately scary headline. It asks “will they hit?” It says “could end world,” and “pose a threat to a town or city.” It shows a huge impact crater.

Nowhere does the a$$hole article say what point of the Earth’s orbit the asteroid will cross. This is calculable and therefore known. The a$$hole article deliberately omits that piece of information so as to scare the reader and get clicks.

This is a$$hole “news.”

[crz]

You can go down if you go to the people there and make arraignments. They will take you down. BUT, anyone who goes HAS to be in good shape and have the proper attire-boots and all.

[crz]

I should also say that anyone who wants to go down has to have a valid reason to go down.

There isnt anything to see down there except your down in the bottom of a HUGE hole.

Geologist students go down, etc.

[sten]

[NTHockey]

1 in 1,400,000,000 - about the % Indian in Warren’ s DNA.

[xp38]

Five days before Christmas 2019 isn’t 2020. This must be a primary.

[SkyDancer]

[Swordmaker]

Is this the Sweet Meteor of Death that everybody keeps talking about?

DANG!

Better open the Christmas presents a week early then. . .

[Libloather]

The asteroid, known as 216258 2006 WH1...

What a coincidence. That's what I would've called it.

[11th_VA]

ROFLOL !!! Great Bumper sticker !!!!

[Swordmaker]

There is an asteroid, but it will miss earth by 15x the distance from hear to the moon.

In space, where there is no sound, is a homophone—a word that sounds the same as another, whether spelled the same or differently—still a homophone??? Especially a 3.6 million miles away? ;^)

[Do_Tar]

> I will never be able to coordinate schedules with arianna grande

Just so she knows. I can clear the 18th or 19th.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, the WTC as it stood, or as a pile of rubble? Either was, an asteroid that large is going to leave a mark. However, it would lose quite a bit of mass hitting the atmosphere. So it would only suck, a lot.

[Manly Warrior]

115grns, 500k tons, 220, 221; whatever it takes.

I think his point was “dead is dead”, there are no degrees of “dead”.

[fidelis]

I, for one, plan on being out of town that day. But just in case, I'm ready...

[Swordmaker]

Harmless? Who said that ?

So you are proposing a 115 grain bullet will completely destroy a human body ?

Sitting in a box in my ammo safe, it’s of absolutely no danger to anyone.

However, take that same 115 gr. piece of lead and change its position, velocity, inertia, and vector so that is now 1 inch from a home invader, heading directly toward his sternum at approximately 1400 feet per second and it could very quickly become quite harmful to that particular person.

So whether it is harmless or not is dependent on many other factors, not related to its basic nature or description. The same holds for a 540 meter asteroid approaching Earth’s orbit. . . because we have not been told some other relevant positional facts such as exactly where earth will be along that 292 million mile circle, or that the asteroid will miss the Earth by about 1.3% of that circumference.

[Manly Warrior]

Actually, the moon is about 240k miles, no? But whatever. I don’t think I will change my Christmas plans.

[Do_Tar]

> homophone—a word that sounds the same as another, whether spelled the same or differently

I thought the iPhone 11 was homophone.

[Tallguy]

5-days before Christmas? So do I shop, or not?

[xp38]

To be double FR sure head for the shower.