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Bulldogcakes

12-07-2005, 03:24 AM

It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html)
 Nasa has estimated that
an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the
Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy
released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square
kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the
Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere. 

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Mike Teacher

12-07-2005, 03:27 AM

these asteroid projections always turn out to be crap; some nerd forgets to carry the five in his calculation and we find out the rock is really gonna miss Earth by a bazillion mi...what's that? up there? in the sky?...

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Doctor Manhattan

12-07-2005, 04:31 AM

A school teacher just used the number "bazillion"That made my day. <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/happy.gif" border="0" />And calculating the path of an object in space for more than 3 DECADES has got to be full of variables that can charge EVERYTHING.

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East Side Dave

12-07-2005, 04:32 AM

in 31 years hopefully i will have invented an anti-asteroid hat by then...

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Kobe8

12-07-2005, 05:24 AM

The one fucking time we need j3lehane to chime in with his nonsense and he's nowhere to be seen.Perhaps he's already escaped off-planet.

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samnyc

12-07-2005, 06:04 AM

can we get this thing to hit us any sooner please?

FUNKMAN

12-07-2005, 07:37 AM

hopefully it doen's put a dink in my windshield...

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Dirtybird12

12-07-2005, 07:49 AM

quote: in 31 years hopefully i will have invented an anti-asteroid hat by then... please make 2

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Bulldogcakes

12-07-2005, 04:23 PM

I only post these in the hope that it may be true. Then I can buy a
huge house, expensive car and a yacht that I cant afford, and I'll make
minimal monthly payments and schedule a huge balloon payment 31 years
from now. 

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torker

12-07-2005, 05:06 PM

It's 390m wide. Fucking metric system. <a href="http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Metrics/ftmtr2.htm" target="_blank">How wide is it in American?</a>

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newport king

12-07-2005, 05:33 PM

which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth get back to me when it's a year away so i can start raping, murdering and pillaging. 31 years is a little too soon to start now.

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scottinnj

12-12-2005, 07:48 PM

quote:<a target="blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html"></a><a target="blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html">It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time </a>
 quote: Nasa has estimated that
an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the
Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy
released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square
kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the
Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.    Well, now I know how God is going to destroy us.

scottinnj

12-12-2005, 07:50 PM

quote:quote: in 31 years hopefully i will have invented an anti-asteroid hat by then... please make 2   
<a target="blank" href="http://www.perrynoid.com">Perrynoid</a>Uh........make that 3  <blockquote />

East Side Dave

12-13-2005, 05:31 AM

quote: Uh........make that 3    I'll make three, dammit, but you guys are buying the extra aluminum foil!!

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ADF

12-13-2005, 05:49 AM

Why doncha make me an asteroid belt while yer at it!Wocka wocka. <img width="147" height="165" border="0" src="http://www.superhero.org/albums/needo/fozzy.jpg" /> 

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ShelleBink

12-13-2005, 06:59 AM

Lets see here I'm 21 now... + 31 years... = 52.<img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/drunk.gif" /> Yeah, bring it on. 

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mdr55

12-13-2005, 02:33 PM

FUNKMAN

12-13-2005, 02:36 PM

If we get everyone on the earth to jump at the exact same time, we can alter our orbit and hopefully the asteroid won't his uswhite men can't jump

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Heather 8

12-13-2005, 02:43 PM

Given my family medical history, I'll probably be in the beginning
stages of Alzheimer's or the end stages of some cancer at that point.
Saves me the trouble of requesting euthanasia. 


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mdr55

12-13-2005, 02:50 PM

quote: quote:If we get everyone on the earth to jump at the exact same time, we can alter our orbit and hopefully the asteroid won't his us white men can't jump

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Furtherman

04-19-2006, 08:52 AM

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060413/pl_usnw/former_military_air_traffic_controller_claims_come t_collision_with_earth_on_may25_2006104_xml" target="_blank">Comet Collision!</a>Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, 2006. He's French, managed an airport - sounds legit!At least we won't have to wait to long to find out.

ShelleBink

04-19-2006, 08:53 AM

couldn't it wait til AFTER my birthday.  fuckin' inconsiderate comet <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" />

Freakshow

04-19-2006, 09:07 AM

Furtherman wrote: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060413/pl_usnw/former_military_air_traffic_controller_claims_come t_collision_with_earth_on_may25_2006104_xml" target="_blank">Comet Collision!</a>Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, 2006. He's French, managed an airport - sounds legit!At least we won't have to wait to long to find out.  Hmm.  A Frenchman warning us about a German comet?  I'm suspicous.  It may actually happen, but I really don't think his Maginot Line defense is going to be enough to stop it.

mendyweiss

04-19-2006, 09:11 AM

<img height="253" src="http://www.tekla-szymanski.com/graphics/bugsy.gif" width="247" border="0" />Yea, I'm shakin! Bulldogcakes wrote: It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html) Nasa has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.    <img src="http://www.silentpix.com/hottub/bulldogsig/rotate.php" border="0" /> My site Bully Baby (http://bulldogcakes.tripod.com/index.html) "A dog recently saved his owner's life, because he had been trained to dial 911. Unfortunately, operators had trouble finding the address 'woof, woof.'"-Norm MacDonald

nickeye

04-19-2006, 09:20 AM

Relax.  I'm on it.<img height="350" src="http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/videogames/asteroid2.jpg" width="350" border="0" />

FUNKMAN

04-19-2006, 10:44 AM

Comet Collision - not a bad band name

FUNKMAN

04-19-2006, 10:46 AM

the comet cometh

ShelleBink

04-19-2006, 10:51 AM

nickeye wrote: Relax. I'm on it.<img width="350" height="350" border="0" src="http://users.tkk.fi/%7Eeye/videogames/asteroid2.jpg" />  <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/clap.gif" />

suggums

04-19-2006, 11:14 AM

new asteroid pump fakes earth

Marc with a c

04-19-2006, 11:17 AM

nickeye wrote:  Relax.  I'm on it.<img height="350" src="http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/videogames/asteroid2.jpg" width="350" border="0" />im not relaxing, you only have 230 points.  thats not going to make anyone relax.you have 31 years, get practicing.

nickeye

04-19-2006, 11:32 AM

C'mon.  I still have four guys left.

Marc with a c

04-19-2006, 11:41 AM

not for long, you're surronded.we're doomed

LordJezo

04-19-2006, 11:42 AM

A friend of mine joined the military and got into the Space Command thing.  He said we have so much crap in space weapons wise that we could blow up any asteroid that we wanted.  I wonder what ever happened to him..

suggums

04-19-2006, 11:46 AM

LordJezo wrote: A friend of mine joined the military and got into the Space Command thing. He said we have so much crap in space weapons wise that we could blow up any asteroid that we wanted. I wonder what ever happened to him..   he and casper van dien went off to fight bugs

Furtherman

06-12-2006, 06:25 AM

Bill From Yorktown

06-12-2006, 06:36 AM

I thought these guys saved us from Apophis<img height="500" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AM6OQC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="328" border="0" />

JamMaster

06-12-2006, 07:26 AM

Bulldogcakes

06-12-2006, 03:18 PM

Astronomers were excited by the news. Sure they were. Because they dont live IN NORWAY AND WEREN"T ALMOST KILLED BY THE MOTHERFUCKER!

Gvac

06-12-2006, 03:29 PM

Good to see nickeye again, and with the pyramid topper no less!I also say bring it on.  I'll be an old bastard in 31 years.

reeshy

06-12-2006, 05:48 PM

$20 says you don' make it. Old Man!!!!!!!!!!

Gvac

06-12-2006, 06:00 PM

Like you'll be around to pay me Gramps.

Marc with a c

06-12-2006, 06:01 PM

knock it off.  one of yous is going to break a hip.

Furtherman

06-19-2006, 09:54 AM

Follow up.Apparently someone at The University Of Olso got their rocks off a bit little exaggerated.  I thought the story was strange and suprised it wasn't all over the news.  Olso, figures.<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1353224.ece" target="_blank">A professor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo has issued an editorial apology for what he called "exaggerated explosive force" linked to reports of the recent meteorite strike in Norway.</a>

sr71blackbird

06-19-2006, 01:57 PM

I sensed this was bullshit early on.  The original story had witnesses saying that the thing flew through the air for 7 minutes!!!  No fucking way.  If it was real, as soon as somoene sensed anything was amiss, it would have impacted nearly instantly.  These things are hurtling through space at over 20,000 mph!

reeshy

06-19-2006, 04:10 PM

Where is Oslovia anyway??????

FUNKMAN

06-19-2006, 04:26 PM

New asteroid threatens earth " I'm gonna get you earth, and your little dog too "

Furtherman

06-27-2006, 10:08 AM

<a href="http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/weblog/more/meteorite_collision/" target="_blank">Just so you all know, this is what it will look like when it happens.</a>Play the video.

Dougie Brootal

06-27-2006, 10:23 AM

Furtherman wrote: <a href="http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/weblog/more/meteorite_collision/" target="_blank">Just so you all know, this is what it will look like when it happens.</a>Play the video.awesome.

cougarjake13

06-28-2006, 02:59 PM

it kinda looked like the death star by the end of the clip

reeshy

06-28-2006, 03:00 PM

So where's fucking Rodan when you need him!!!!!!!

CaptClown

06-28-2006, 03:48 PM

<img height="180" src="http://www.thundarr.com/images/10.jpg" width="240" border="0" /> I call dibs on the Sun Sword.

NortonRules

06-28-2006, 04:14 PM

Can we start taking bets on how long it will take the liberals to blame this on George Bush?"Obviously the Bush administration's tactics have brought this on.  George Bush goes running everyday and this has caused the Earth to shift a tiny bit, but it's enough to knock us right into the path of this new deadly asteroid.  We've interviewed at least 10 garbage truck drivers who back this up and agree with our findings.  Comments from Asteroid experts Howard Dean and Al Gore at 11pm." - Any and every liberal mass media outlet

Bulldogcakes

06-28-2006, 06:35 PM

Furtherman wrote: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/weblog/more/meteorite_collision/">Just so you all know, this is what it will look like when it happens.</a>Play the video. THat was ridiculous. THe "asteroid" was the size of Pluto. Here's a <a href="http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/anim/mpia_q.mpg" target="_self" title="REAL">REAL</a> impact, the famous Shoemaker-Levy comet that hit Jupiter. Look for the little tiny flashes. Those are the meteors hitting the planet. Weee.  <blockquote />

Furtherman

06-29-2006, 06:12 AM

Bulldogcakes wrote:  Furtherman wrote: <a href="http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/weblog.php?/weblog/more/meteorite_collision/" target="_blank">Just so you all know, this is what it will look like when it happens.</a>Play the video. THat was ridiculous. THe "asteroid" was the size of Pluto. Here's a <a title="REAL" href="http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/anim/mpia_q.mpg" target="_self">REAL</a> impact, the famous Shoemaker-Levy comet that hit Jupiter. Look for the little tiny flashes. Those are the meteors hitting the planet. Weee.   You aren't grasping the concept of planetary size, you are thinking in Earth terms... the video was an example of what would happen to a giant meteor if it were to hit earth and that is what a giant meteor would look like.First of all, over a thousand Earths could fit inside Jupiter if it were hollow.Those tiny flashes?  Those were impact plumes rising thousands of miles above Jupiter's cloud level.  There were almost 20 fragments of the comet hitting Jupiter.  If just one of those pieces, an average sized one, were to have hit Earth, the only thing remaining, possibly, would be some bacteria.  Life on Earth would have ended as we know it, until a billion years or so down the line when some plant life may return and something might start swimming in an ocean.The video shows how life will end on Earth.  It is as inevitable as NortonRules replying to a thread about watching grass grow and blaming it on liberals (seriously, we get it... give it a rest).

Dougie Brootal

06-29-2006, 06:20 AM

Furtherman wrote: It is as inevitable as NortonRules replying to a thread about watching grass grow and blaming it on liberals (seriously, we get it... give it a rest). <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/clap.gif" border="0" />

Furtherman

07-11-2006, 07:08 AM

It seems the Bug Planet hates Norway.<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1383090.ece" target="_blank">Another meteorite hits Norway</a>A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and experts are calling the incident sensational.

CuzBum

07-11-2006, 07:11 AM

"Goddamn bugs whacked us Johnny!"

Furtherman

04-25-2007, 07:52 AM

We might have 29 years to prepare...

Nobody paid attention, but in February scientists re-ported that on April 13, 2036 an asteroid is projected to make a very, very close encounter with earth. The good news is that scientists said there’s only a 1 in 10,000 chance that this thing will hit earth. The bad news is that these chances are 29 years from now. It’ll be the closest pass of any foreign object we can remember. That is, of course, if it passes. It’s likely we will all have different priorities in 29 years.

Grim Reaper decides to use an asteroid (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770423071)

badmonkey

04-25-2007, 09:49 AM

I read about this in the "Odd but True" stories in the Post yesterday.Odd?  I'm a little surprised this didn't make bigger news, considering there was a good chance this could have hit a populated area, and its potential destructive force.<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece" target="_blank">As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.</a>

Great. Meteor hits middle of nowhere farmland in Norway. Huge explosion. Please tell me Superman is not going to be Norwegian this time. Some twist of Thor and Superman maybe? Truth, Justice, Shiny metal hats with horns on the sides?

No supervillain is going to take him seriously with that accent.

Badmonkey

ScottFromGA

04-25-2007, 01:30 PM

please make 2

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hey, sounds like you should make a website for these Anti-Asteroid hats....

MyAsteroidHat.com ? No...................?

ScottFromGA

04-25-2007, 01:31 PM

<img height="180" src="http://www.thundarr.com/images/10.jpg" width="240" border="0" /> I call dibs on the Sun Sword.

is he pinching his tit? :blink:

cougarjake13

04-25-2007, 04:30 PM

Great. Meteor hits middle of nowhere farmland in Norway. Huge explosion. Please tell me Superman is not going to be Norwegian this time. Some twist of Thor and Superman maybe? Truth, Justice, Shiny metal hats with horns on the sides?

No supervillain is going to take him seriously with that accent.

Badmonkey

that'd be an awesome side project

superthor ???

Recyclerz

04-25-2007, 05:36 PM

Astronomers discover an Earth-like planet (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18308956/site/newsweek/)

I'll be too old to care.

I suspect this will become the new Republican plan to fix Social Security & Medicare. :wink:

badmonkey

04-25-2007, 05:59 PM

Bulldogcakes

04-25-2007, 06:01 PM

Astronomers discover an Earth-like planet (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18308956/site/newsweek/)

http://www.movie-poster.ws/movies/wallpaper/fanart/mike/planet-apes.jpg

BLZBUBBA

04-25-2007, 09:27 PM

Furtherman

02-22-2008, 07:44 AM

Giant Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Northwest U.S. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080221-oregon-meteor.html)

A meteor zipped across the U.S. Pacific Northwest sky early Tuesday morning before exploding, possibly littering eastern Oregon with marble- to basketball-size space rocks, an expert says.

Sooner or later.... POW, we're gonna get one right in the kisser.

Video of it exploding:

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Knowledged_one

02-22-2008, 07:52 AM

Giant Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Northwest U.S. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080221-oregon-meteor.html)

Sooner or later.... POW, we're gonna get one right in the kisser.

Video of it exploding:

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Lets face it its the Pacific Northwest nothing good comes from there except maybe bigfoot

JerseySean

02-22-2008, 08:51 AM

Lets face it its the Pacific Northwest nothing good comes from there except maybe bigfoot

We fucked that sattelite up didn't we?

Mike Teacher

02-22-2008, 12:26 PM

And Shoemaker-Levy was discovered by some amateur astronomers....Shoemaker and Levy. At least NASA sees this one. Some that come at us they don't even see. A few years ago something passed between us and the moon and it was..."Whoa...Where did that come from?"

'Amateur' in the world of astronomy is a bit of a misnomer. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy are not only comet finding machines; they are world-class astronomers; Eugene essentially invented much of lunar and astrogeology and was involved with Apollo / NASA, and Levy is one of the best popularizers and authors on astronomy in the world.

July 1996 had me in Wash DC in a hotel conference room with about 200 others watching a presentation of the data, arriving by the minute, of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. We sat and watched the Shoemakers, Levy, and Carl Sagan discuss the comet and what it meant. Just surreal. I had met Sagan earlier that weekend and spent most of the time, seriously, trying not to faint.

JerseySean

02-22-2008, 12:31 PM

'Amateur' in the world of astronomy is a bit of a misnomer. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy are not only comet finding machines; they are world-class astronomers; Eugene essentially invented much of lunar and astrogeology and was involved with Apollo / NASA, and Levy is one of the best popularizers and authors on astronomy in the world.

July 1996 had me in Wash DC in a hotel conference room with about 200 others watching a presentation of the data, arriving by the minute, of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. We sat and watched the Shoemakers, Levy, and Carl Sagan discuss the comet and what it meant. Just surreal. I had met Sagan earlier that weekend and spent most of the time, seriously, trying not to faint.

mik, do you think our successful shot at the falling sattelite gives us a chance to hit a comet?

Earlshog

02-22-2008, 12:33 PM

'Amateur' in the world of astronomy is a bit of a misnomer. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy are not only comet finding machines; they are world-class astronomers; Eugene essentially invented much of lunar and astrogeology and was involved with Apollo / NASA, and Levy is one of the best popularizers and authors on astronomy in the world.

July 1996 had me in Wash DC in a hotel conference room with about 200 others watching a presentation of the data, arriving by the minute, of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. We sat and watched the Shoemakers, Levy, and Carl Sagan discuss the comet and what it meant. Just surreal. I had met Sagan earlier that weekend and spent most of the time, seriously, trying not to faint.

I took a picture in that hotel conference room

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg/800px-Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg

scottinnj

02-22-2008, 04:45 PM

If we get everyone on the earth to jump at the exact same time, we can alter our orbit and hopefully the asteroid won't hit us. 

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This message was edited by mdr55 on 12-13-05 @ 6:51 PM

white men can't jump

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 Damn! We're fucked. 

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All we have to do is get hot asian and black chicks to have sex with ugly white guys, and we'll simply breed the white bread out of the world in time for the big jump. I saw it once in a porno, and it might just work!

Bulldogcakes

02-22-2008, 05:35 PM

'Amateur' in the world of astronomy is a bit of a misnomer. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy are not only comet finding machines; they are world-class astronomers; Eugene essentially invented much of lunar and astrogeology and was involved with Apollo / NASA, and Levy is one of the best popularizers and authors on astronomy in the world.

July 1996 had me in Wash DC in a hotel conference room with about 200 others watching a presentation of the data, arriving by the minute, of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. We sat and watched the Shoemakers, Levy, and Carl Sagan discuss the comet and what it meant. Just surreal. I had met Sagan earlier that weekend and spent most of the time, seriously, trying not to faint.

Mike, I've noticed these things seem to generally land in the US Pacific Northwest, Canada, Russia, and other places near the North Pole. I'll bet that's not a coincidence.

Furtherman

02-25-2008, 06:50 AM

Mike, I've noticed these things seem to generally land in the US Pacific Northwest, Canada, Russia, and other places near the North Pole. I'll bet that's not a coincidence.

They land all over, mostly in water... but they're easier to spot in the polar regions against the snow. That's why most of them are found there.

topless_mike

02-25-2008, 07:28 AM

They land all over, mostly in water... but they're easier to spot in the polar regions against the snow. That's why most of them are found there.

i thought it was because they usually land in place we dont give 2 shits about.
especially canada. eh ?

Mike Teacher

02-25-2008, 05:59 PM

I took a picture in that hotel conference room

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg/800px-Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg

Nice. Heres another:

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/MizzleT/me03-1.jpg

Furtherman

02-28-2008, 09:44 AM

Good news!

US team wins asteroid competition

http://spyhunter007.com/Images/asteroids_game_screen2.jpg

USA! USA! USA! USA!

No not that one...

A US team has won a $50,000 (£25,000) competition to design a spacecraft to rendezvous with and track the path of an asteroid which may threaten Earth. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7265608.stm)

The winning entry, led by SpaceWorks Engineering, will shadow asteroid Apophis for 300 days.

The measurements it takes will be used to refine what is known about the orbit of this 300m-wide space rock.

Apophis will make a close pass of Earth in 2029 and there is a small but real possibility it could hit in 2036.

You can sleep a little better tonight. Oh wait... don't forget the killer robutts... never mind.

Furtherman

04-16-2008, 10:03 AM

http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/CPS.MXL85.150408234312.photo00.quicklook.default-245x182.jpg

A US team has won a $50,000 (£25,000) competition to design a spacecraft to rendezvous with and track the path of an asteroid which may threaten Earth. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7265608.stm)

They better get movin' on this!

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures (http://www.physorg.com/news127499715.html)

Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.

NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizzkid had got it right.

If the asteroid strikes a satellite in 2029, that will change its trajectory making it hit earth on its next orbit in 2036.

Both NASA and Marquardt agree that if the asteroid does collide with earth, it will create a ball of iron and iridium 320 metres (1049 feet) wide and weighing 200 billion tonnes, which will crash into the Atlantic Ocean.

The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying both coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies indefinitely.

That move to Montana looks better and better ever year.

foodcourtdruide

04-16-2008, 10:08 AM

Don't believe everything that you read.

From wikipedia:

In April 2008 news organizations widely, but incorrectly, reported that 13 year-old Nico Marquardt from Potsdam, Germany, had recalculated the odds as part of a science competition, and found the risk had been underestimated. His project took into account the possibility that the asteroid would collide with one or more of the estimated 40,000 artificial satellites orbiting the earth, possibly causing a shift in its orbit, and increasing the probability of a collision with [6] earth on its next fly-by in 2036 to 1 in 450. Initial news reports claimed that NASA confirmed these results with the ESA[7]. But both NASA and the ESA have since denied these claims. On April 15, 2008, a German ESA spokesman told news organizations that "... A small boy did do these calculations, but he made a mistake ... NASA's figures are correct." [8]

Furtherman

04-16-2008, 10:11 AM

Physorg is a good website. Story was posted 20 hours ago but no correction yet. Oh well... thanks for the update foodcourt!

Furtherman

02-10-2009, 08:34 AM

AN ASTEROID that had initially been deemed harmless has turned out to have a slim chance of hitting Earth in 160 years. While that might seem a distant threat, there's far less time available to deflect it off course. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126945.200-asteroid-bound-for-earth-warn-your-grandchildren.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news)

Asteroid bound for Earth! Warn your grandchildren!

brettmojo

02-10-2009, 08:42 AM

Zorro

02-10-2009, 10:29 AM

skyscraper

02-10-2009, 10:41 AM

but the earth will be gone in 2012.
so inhabitants of the asteroid, take heart, there is no danger to you.

Gritty

02-10-2009, 12:38 PM

ChrisTheCop

02-10-2009, 12:52 PM

Upon hearing the news, A-Rod reportedly said, "A steroid that you can put in your ass? Can I have a buddy pack it in for me?? I mean, I'm out on the steroids thing, might as well come out all the way!!!"

childish? YES. But I was suprised no one else here made the joke yet.

keithy_19

02-10-2009, 12:58 PM

but the earth will be gone in 2012.
so inhabitants of the asteroid, take heart, there is no danger to you.

I was thinking this, but I now see where you went wrong. I too, am a Russian schoolboy and I've done the calculations.

The asteroid, while spiraling towards the big blue ball we call home, will hit a timewarp, causing the timewarp to hit earth, taking us back to the year 2012. The asteroid, also being part of the time warp will hit the earth causing everyone to die. Everyone except for Barack Obama, who will be hiding in a cave with Osama Bin Laden after selling America to the alien lifeforms that are on the asteroid.

Nobel prize for me, please.

Furtherman

02-17-2009, 07:56 AM

A.J.

02-17-2009, 07:58 AM

And there were fireballs seen in Kentucky.

Were they purple in color?

http://www.headbanger.us/gallerie_d/bilder/deep_purple_fireball_front.jpg

Furtherman

03-03-2009, 07:35 AM

Another near miss! (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/40504617.html)

This little cosmic surprise, designated 2009 DD45, turned up two days ago as a 19th-magnitude blip in images taken by Rob McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. It was already within 1½ million miles of Earth and closing fast.

Thankfully, the news media have become less sensationalistic when it comes to these asteroidal close calls — especially since one actually struck our planet last October 7th, at night, and the impact went virtually unnoticed.

Melrapuo

03-03-2009, 11:58 AM

Something tells me when it happens we're not gonna even know it til after it hits.

brettmojo

03-03-2009, 03:20 PM

Someone said it passed closer to us than the moon orbits, is that true?

boosterp

03-03-2009, 03:24 PM

Someone said it passed closer to us than the moon orbits, is that true?

Yes, both of which are described in that article. Amazing huh?

brettmojo

03-03-2009, 03:29 PM

Yes, both of which are described in that article. Amazing huh?
HOLY HELL!!!

Furtherman

03-04-2009, 01:55 PM

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/asteroidphotos.gif

A series of four photos taken of the Australian sky show the asteroid that nearly smashed to Earth Monday, where it could have destroyed several major cities.

If you look at the center of the photos, you can see the asteroid moving across the sky. It looks small from Earth, but according to the Associated Press:

The space ball measured between 69 feet and 154 feet in diameter. The Planetary Society said that made it the same size as an asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 and leveled more than 800 square miles of forest.

National Geographic, which posted these photos, reports that the asteroid came within 41,000 miles of Earth on Monday.

brettmojo

03-04-2009, 04:54 PM

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/asteroidphotos.gif
:ohmy:

Farmer Dave

03-04-2009, 05:09 PM

Hey asteriod...I fart in your general direction, now go away before I am forced to tawnt you for a second time. You filthy pig dog.

Gvac

03-04-2009, 05:22 PM

Hey asteriod...I fart in your general direction, now go away before I am forced to tawnt you for a second time. You filthy pig dog.

http://www.figarospeech.com/storage/monty.jpg

CofyCrakCocaine

03-04-2009, 05:30 PM

http://www.figarospeech.com/storage/monty.jpg

If that asteroid had a mom, TommyZ would think she's a total MILF

A.J.

03-05-2009, 02:55 AM

The space ball measured between 69 feet and 154 feet in diameter.

http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/spaceballs_61.jpg

Furtherman

03-26-2009, 09:25 AM

STUNNED astronomers watched a car-sized asteroid explode into a brilliant meteor shower as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere. They then went to a Sudanese desert to pick up the pieces of the asteroid, for which they had only 13 hours warning of impact. (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25244282-601,00.html)

Suddenly, scientists accustomed to thinking in light years found themselves scrambling in real time to track the asteroid and figure out where its fragments might land.

Their chatter burned up the internet and international phone lines. “IMPACT TONIGHT!!!”, wrote physicist Mark Boslough of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico to colleagues, Nature reported.

Within minutes, it was determined that the asteroid would burst into pieces over the sparsely populated Nubian Desert in northern Sudan.

Furtherman

07-24-2009, 01:16 PM

Jupiter collision a warning call to Earth (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0722/p02s04-usgn.html)

The list of cosmic objects that could hit Earth is growing. Scientists study satellite 'tractors' and nuclear weapons as ways to divert asteroids headed our way.

For all its scientific interest, however, the collision also serves as a stark reminder that the solar system remains a shooting gallery – with Earth, as well as Jupiter, on the wrong side of the firing line.

The object's signature on Jupiter's cloud tops initially was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley as he gathered digital images of the giant planet through his 14.5-inch telescope. After alerting other astronomers to what appeared to be a "scar" in the cloud tops similar to those generated by the pieces of Shoemaker-Levy 9, NASA scientists trained a 3-meter (9.8-foot) infrared telescope on the planet and got a good look at the scar.

"It could be the impact of a comet," according to Glenn Orton, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., in a statement yesterday. "But we don't know for sure yet."

Radioguy

07-24-2009, 03:51 PM

Jupiter does this all the time. Its massive gravity affects and pulls in the debris that would head towards the inner terrestrial planets. Without it, life probably never would have evolved here.

Furtherman

10-28-2009, 05:59 AM

On 8 October an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18046-asteroid-blast-reveals-holes-in-earths-defences.html)

The explosion was heard by witnesses in Indonesia. Video images of the sky following the event show a dust trail characteristic of an exploding asteroid.

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A.J.

10-28-2009, 07:03 AM

Poor Indonesia: tsunamis from the sea, asteroids from the sky.

topless_mike

10-28-2009, 07:07 AM

Poor Indonesia: tsunamis from the sea, asteroids from the sky.

"the seas boiled and the skies fell"

TheMojoPin

10-28-2009, 07:38 AM

"the seas boiled and the skies fell"

Sounds like good soup.

nate1000

10-28-2009, 08:01 AM

Sounds like good soup.

If not for all those dirty indonesians making it taste like feet and shitty curry.

boosterp

10-28-2009, 08:40 AM

She's a hot looking news person.

brettmojo

10-28-2009, 12:08 PM

On 8 October an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18046-asteroid-blast-reveals-holes-in-earths-defences.html)

The explosion was heard by witnesses in Indonesia. Video images of the sky following the event show a dust trail characteristic of an exploding asteroid.

<object width="425" height="344">

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yeQBzTkJNhs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></object>
Bottom line...

Earth 1 Asteroid 0.

Furtherman

11-11-2009, 05:54 AM

Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226672/Asteroid-scrapes-past-Earth-just-8-700miles-away--15-hours-warning.html?ITO=1490&referrer=yahoo#ixzz0WYxPlDfn)

Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday.
The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach.

Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/10/article-1226672-02FD081C000005DC-479_468x378.jpg

No worries... it would have just caused a giant fireball in the sky... but still a close shave.

MC Pee Pants

11-11-2009, 06:09 AM

Bring this shit on already.

Snoogans

11-11-2009, 09:48 AM

Bring this shit on already.

you got about 3 years

KingGeno

11-11-2009, 09:50 AM

One can only hope that this hits.

Furtherman

02-02-2010, 08:41 AM

Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision! (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/02/hubble-captures-picture-of-asteroid-collision/)

Nothing like this has ever been seen before. Sure, Hubble and about a hundred other telescopes observed the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slam in to Jupiter in 1994, but that was different than seeing two asteroids hit. Asteroids are small, and very very far apart on average (don’t believe scenes like that in "Empire Strikes Back"), so a collision like this is extremely rare, and catching it from such a great vantage point rarer still. But we have a lot of eyes on the sky, and the more we watch the more we’ll see.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2010/02/hst_wf3_P2010A2.jpg

topless_mike

02-02-2010, 08:54 AM

that would have been pretty dope had it been video.

Furtherman

02-02-2010, 09:21 AM

don’t believe scenes like that in "Empire Strikes Back

Oh, so I guess there aren't any giant space worms living in asteroids either?

Which, by the way, doesn't make sense. What does a space worm, living in the vacuum of space, eat?

A.J.

02-02-2010, 09:26 AM

Oh, so I guess there aren't any giant space worms living in asteroids either?

Which, by the way, doesn't make sense. What does a space worm, living in the vacuum of space, eat?

A Starship's energy.

http://thecia.com.au/star-trek/next-generation/4/08b2.jpg

Furtherman

02-02-2010, 09:31 AM

A Starship's energy.

http://thecia.com.au/star-trek/next-generation/4/08b2.jpg

Well played.

brettmojo

02-11-2010, 01:45 PM

http://www.disclose.tv/frameset.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftranslate.google.com %2Ftranslate%3Fjs%3Dy%26amp%3Bprev%3D_t%26amp%3Bhl %3Des%26amp%3Bie%3DUTF-8%26amp%3Blayout%3D1%26amp%3Beotf%3D1%26amp%3Bu%3D http%253A%252F%252Fwww.milenio.com%252Fnode%252F37 9635%26amp%3Bsl%3Dauto%26amp%3Btl%3Den

Ahuazotepec .- Authorities reported a meteorite falling on Wednesday afternoon between the towns of Ahuazotepec and Cuautepec, which allegedly caused the cave-a bridge. Tulancingo, Hidalgo. According to the Municipal Police Huauchinango, the first reports out there being injured and ensure that the impact generated a roar that was heard up Zacatlan and Tulancingo, Hidalgo.
The radio station Tulancingo XENQ was who gave the scoop a few hours ago. De acuerdo con Jorge Martínez, reportero de XENQ, desde las 15:30 recibieron reportes de habitantes de Huauchinango, Tulancingo, Acaxochitlán e incluso Pachuca que decían haber escucha una fuerte explosión. According to Jorge Martinez, a reporter for XENQ, from 15:30 received reports of people in Huauchinango, Tulancingo Pachuca Tulancingo borders and even they said they had heard a loud explosion.
The Puebla information portal, e-consulta.com, said the incident took place today at 18:30 hours between the two populations and noted that the site has reached the Mexican army to cordon off the area.
En principio autoridades creyeron que el impacto había sido por la caída de una aeronave. Initially authorities believed the impact was by the falling aircraft. However, on reaching the place, they realized that the phenomenon left a hole 30 meters in diameter.

Furtherman

02-11-2010, 01:47 PM

Did it hit Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack?

Furtherman

03-08-2010, 07:04 AM

Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18616-dark-dangerous-asteroids-found-lurking-near-earth.html)

Called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the new NASA telescope launched on 14 December on a mission to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. It began its survey in mid-January.

In its first six weeks of observations, it has discovered 16 previously unknown asteroids with orbits close to Earth's. Of these, 55 per cent reflect less than one-tenth of the sunlight that falls on them, which makes them difficult to spot with visible-light telescopes. One of these objects is as dark as fresh asphalt, reflecting less than 5 per cent of the light it receives.

Crossweird

03-08-2010, 07:29 AM

One of these objects is as dark as fresh asphalt, reflecting less than 5 per cent of the light it receives

If it gets too close to Earth, Heidi Klum may marry it.

Willmore

03-08-2010, 07:52 AM

If it gets too close to Earth, Heidi Klum may marry it.

Only if it also has a 12 inch cock.

TripleSkeet

03-08-2010, 09:17 AM

If it gets too close to Earth, Heidi Klum may marry it.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

keithy_19

03-08-2010, 03:03 PM

Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18616-dark-dangerous-asteroids-found-lurking-near-earth.html)

Racist.

brettmojo

04-07-2010, 03:00 PM

Newfound Asteroid to Buzz Earth Thursday (http://www.disclose.tv/frameset.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fsc itech%2F2010%2F04%2F07%2Fnewfound-asteroid-buzz-moon-thursday%2F%3Ftest%3Dlatestnews)

A newly discovered asteroid will zip close by Earth Thursday, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet even though it is passing within the orbit of the moon.

The orbit of newfound asteroid 2010 GA6 as it flies by Earth on April 8, 2010 at a distance of 223,000 miles, about nine-tenths the distance between Earth and the moon.

A newly discovered asteroid will zip close by Earth Thursday, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet even though it is passing within the orbit of the moon.

The asteroid, called 2010 GA6, is a relatively small space rock about 71 feet wide and was discovered by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Az. The space rock will fly within the orbit of the moon (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=asteroid-2010ga6-100406-02.jpg&cap=This+NASA+graphic+depicts+the+orbit+of+newfoun d+asteroid+2010+GA6+as+it+flies+by+Earth+on+April+ 8%2C+2010+at+a+distance+of+223%2C000+miles+%28359% 2C000+km%29%2C+about+nine-tenths+the+distance+between+Earth+and+the+moon.+%3 Ca+href%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fscienceastr onomy%2Fasteroid-earth-close-flyby-100406.html%3EFull+story%3C%2Fa%3E.+Credit%3A+NASA %2FJPL) when it passes Earth Thursday at 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT), but NASA astronomers said not to worry...the planet is safe.

"Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks," said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/07/newfound-asteroid-buzz-moon-thursday/?test=latestnews#) in Pasadena, Calif., in a statement.

At the time of its closest pass, asteroid 2010 GA6 will be about 223,000 miles from the Earth. That's about nine-tenths the distance between Earth and the moon [more asteroid photos (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=286&gid=22)].

Snoogans

04-07-2010, 03:10 PM

will we be able to see that fucker?

brettmojo

04-08-2010, 05:26 AM

will we be able to see that fucker?
Since it's so small I seriously doubt it... Unless it bounces off some space junk and collides with the ISS or something.

CountryBob

04-08-2010, 06:54 AM

Kinda crazy isnt it? Giant rocks just flying by - we need to activate the fifth element in case it changes course.

brettmojo

04-08-2010, 07:02 AM

Kinda crazy isnt it? Giant rocks just flying by - we need to activate the fifth element in case it changes course.
I'll activate Milla Jovovich for the good of humanity.

Snoogans

04-08-2010, 07:27 AM

Since it's so small I seriously doubt it... Unless it bounces off some space junk and collides with the ISS or something.

75 feet dont seem that small. fuckin better see it

KnoxHarrington

04-08-2010, 08:00 AM

Too bad Kenyan Sekrit Muslin Fartbama Bin Laden took my guns away so I can't protect my family from it

Fuckin illegal immigrants just sneaking into this country at will

Crossweird

04-08-2010, 08:01 AM

Kinda crazy isnt it? Giant rocks just flying by...

Maybe we should see if Bobby Brown is available...

StanUpshaw

04-08-2010, 08:02 AM

75 feet dont seem that small. fuckin better see it

"when it passes Earth Thursday at 7:06 p.m. EDT"

It's happening during daylight. There isn't a chance the U.S. would see it.

Furtherman

04-08-2010, 08:03 AM

75 feet dont seem that small. fuckin better see it

75 feet is tinier than a spec at that distance.

Snoogans

04-08-2010, 08:07 AM

"when it passes Earth Thursday at 7:06 p.m. EDT"

It's happening during daylight. There isn't a chance the U.S. would see it.

fuckers

StanUpshaw

04-08-2010, 08:25 AM

Snoogans

04-08-2010, 08:27 AM

Plus, according to the diagram (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/440908main_asteroid20100406-full.jpg), it looks like it will pass Earth on the outside, so even if it were big enough to see, our half of the world would be outta luck.

i guess i have no other choice than to light something on fire and throw it through the sky tonight then

opie's twisted balls

04-08-2010, 09:41 AM

I hope it hits Quebec

Furtherman

04-08-2010, 09:51 AM

i guess i have no other choice than to light something on fire and throw it through the sky tonight then

I'd suggest your Giants jersey.

KnoxHarrington

04-08-2010, 10:55 AM

i guess i have no other choice than to light something on fire and throw it through the sky tonight then

As opposed to a normal Thursday night?

Snoogans

04-08-2010, 10:57 AM

I'd suggest your Giants jersey.

being that they wont fire tom coughlin, you may get to see that soon

Pitdoc

04-08-2010, 11:03 AM

NYC should worry about Donkey Kong, et al..

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furie

04-08-2010, 03:27 PM

http://www.lynnertic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/atari2.jpg

StanUpshaw

04-08-2010, 04:47 PM

NASA has pushed back the arrival time to 10:06 PM EDT, so Snoogs, you may still have a chance! Get out there and start looking!

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/neo20100406.html

PapaBear

04-08-2010, 08:43 PM

If it's at all reflective, you might be able to see it. You can see the ISS.

StanUpshaw

04-08-2010, 08:57 PM

That asteroid was about a third the size of the space station and it was over 1000 times farther away.

(plus it's a rock, not shiny metal)

Furtherman

08-23-2010, 10:03 AM

Jupiter collision a warning call to Earth (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0722/p02s04-usgn.html)

Again! It's a shooting galley in cosmic terms.

Jupiter -Earth's Guardian- Smacked Yet Again By an Asteroid or Comet (http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7ec9Yn/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/08/jupiter-earths-guardian-smacked-yet-again-by-an-asteroid-or-comet.html/r:t)

Jupiter, our red-spotted gas-giant neighbor was hit, again, by a comet from the Oort Belt or asteroid on Friday. The brief flash, which astronomers are now beginning to think may happen more frequently than previously thought, was captured on film by amateur astronomer Masayuki Tashikawa. Follow-up observations by Hubble, and other space observatories, have confirmed the likelyhood of the impact -it will not however, leave a hole in the Jovian surface the size of the Pacific Ocean like the well-documented impact from July 2009 or 2008.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0133f344c9b9970b-800wi

hanso

08-23-2010, 10:47 PM

I think this "new" asteroid has been around awhile.

Furtherman

08-30-2010, 06:08 AM

Furtherman

09-10-2010, 05:59 AM

Colombia: 'Giant fireball' was a meteorite

http://colombiareports.com/pics/2010/09/meteorite.jpg

Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite.

The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday.

Andina.com reported that Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander.

Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the source of the explosion.

The director of the University of Nariño's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN Radio Sunday that he believed the object was a meteorite.

In rural areas of Santander, police received reports that the explosion had shattered windows in the area.

midwestjeff

09-10-2010, 08:00 AM

That's fucking crazy.

Who even knew that Columbians had windows?

Furtherman

06-27-2011, 10:29 AM

An asteroid the size of an RV motor home will narrowly miss striking Earth on June 27. (http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-close-miss-of-earth-june-27)

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cougarjake13

06-27-2011, 06:40 PM

phhhewwwww !!!!

that was close

Furtherman

02-27-2012, 06:36 AM

Big Asteroid 2011 AG5 Could Pose Threat to Earth in 2040 (http://www.space.com/14683-big-asteroid-2011-ag5-threat-earth.html)

Scientists are keeping a close eye on a big asteroid that may pose an impact threat to Earth in a few decades.

The space rock, which is called 2011 AG5, is about 460 feet (140 meters) wide. It may come close enough to Earth in 2040 that some researchers are calling for a discussion about how to deflect it.

Talk about the asteroid was on the agenda during the 49th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), held earlier this month in Vienna.