Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning

Daily Mail ^ | 10:01 AM on 11th November 2009 | Claire Bates

[randomhero97]

ping

[KarinG1]

If it is going to hit us it really doesn’t matter how much warning we have. When an asteroid has your name on it you’re a goner. Repent now. I did.

[An Old Man]

Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon

Does that convey the same meaning as:

Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the the astroid closer to Earth than 1/30th of the distance to the Moon.

[DBrow]

I think one this size would make a hole like the one recently in Peru (or thereabouts).

Do they know what type the one that just went by was?

[RingerSIX]

I remember that part well also. He was a boy-toy of some rich woman. And as he surfed the wave he saw the preacher on The Strand go under. He thought he just might make it too, until that apartment building....

I also liked the part where the two guys had hiked up the mountain... was it Vesuvius? I forget the name, but one of them had lost his sight in the blinding flash, and the other described the scene to him.

[Man50D]

That tears it! I’m moving!

[Clint Lippo]

“....with only 15 hrs. warning.....” If I had more warning I could have hid in my basement.

[org.whodat]

Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning

LOL, you will not remember the one that gets you!!

[null and void]

If I had more warning I could have hid in my basement.

My basement is more a place to hide from than in...

[dynachrome]

That was on Thera, possibly the island that lead to the Alantis legend. Good scene.

[DBrow]

Yup.

It was inside the orbit of Clarke Belt comm sats, which are 23,000 miles roughly.

[An Old Man]

It must be that new math. 30 times smaller vs 1/30th?

[Publius6961]

Even NASA screws up
That illustration is grossly out of scale.

To scale, the path of the object would be touching the image of earth, as it flew by.

I hate it when they do that. Catering to the scientific ignoramuses?

[Darksheare]

Huh?
Wha?
Who are we hiding in the basement?
And how did we come by them this time?
Derrly, did I have anything to do with this during my three day brain fog?
/ kidding.

My basement has frogs.
An honest plague of frogs.

[George from New England]

You got it. Meteor hit on DC when the clowns are in session will solve most of the country’s problems.

Let it all dissolve back to the state capitals and maybe we don’t build another central replacement for DC.

[J40000]

"I COMMAND you to CHANGE course NOW!"

[George from New England]

Every time NASA releases ‘new photos’ from space or the Hubble they are only artist renditions based on nothing more than computer data coming back. They add pretty made up colors to different density areas but nothing really having to do with the colors in the end.

[Rome2000]

That and legalizing dueling within DC limits.

Nothing shuts up a commie big mouth like pistols at 60 paces.

[TXnMA]

"How about Washington DC?"

Too much of a WMD.

I'd hate to lose the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian...

[kevao]

I'd hate to lose the Library of Congress

The Library would be a devastating loss.

But the Congress?