hello everyone, I have a friend who was talking about the deep-impact mission being preparation for taking out a near earth asteroid (NEA). that got me thinking, and I recalled there was an asteroid passing earth around 2012 (if I remember correctly). last I heard I think they gave it like 1 in 40 odds of hitting (could be wrong about that, I am getting all of this from memory). anyway, I was wondering whatever happened to that asteroid? have they figured out that it will miss? or is the jury still out? any news would be a help.
when you post crap like that, it does not help anyone. I repeat, does anyone have anymore information about that asteroid?
I don't remember the exact place, but somewhere at the NASA website there is a chart with all known most dangerous asteroids and the odds of them hitting the Earth.
http://space.about.com/cs/asteroids/a/2003qq47impacta.htm I don't know of any asteroid menacing Earth in year 2012. 2003 QQ47 was a possible threat for year 2014, and was classified as 1 in the Torino scale, but as the link indicates, has been downgraded to 0 A more certain enemy could be 1950 DA, that could strike Earth in 2880 (I will be 904 years old then) http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/1950da/
Hum, i prefer the close flyby on Friday 13th, April 2029 of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/douglasrana/2004mn4.htm">2004MN4</a>. If the asteroid were to pass through a "keyhole" in an error ellipse just 640 meters across – about twice the diameter of the asteroid itself - the object would enter a trajectory that would result in a collision with the Earth on April 13, 2036... If the orbit did coincide with the orbit of the Earth, then the speed and size would translate to an impact event of only about 1,400 megatons of energy. Incidentally the asteroid has just been named <b>Apophis</b>, it had previously just been numbered 99942 (2004 mn4) Apophis is the Greek name for the Egyptian god Apep. It's traditional to name Aten-class asteroids after Egyptian gods. One problem is that 2004MN4 will become an Apollo-class asteroid after the 2029 close approach, and Apollo-class asteroids have traditionally been named after Greek gods. So a Greek name for an Egyptian god was chosen. Apophis is the god of evil and destruction, who was usually thwarted in his destructive efforts. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Of course, for Apophis to be defeated, he usually required Set to be the one giving the beatdown. And Set is now working for the other team, so to speak. The good thing is that Apophis only cares about the sun, not the earth. And this was a completely useless piece of mythological trivia.
On the US sit-com Third Rock From the Sun, about a bunch of aliens that move to Ohio, in one episode the high commander (human name-Dick Solomon) let's it slip that the Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid in 2015! Hi all! It's my first post. Thought I'd try to keep it light to begin.
Yes, yes. We all worship Third Rock from the Sun and base our lives around it. It is the source of all knowledge, divine and otherwise.
Yes, it is a bit of a Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! moment, isn't it--it's interesting how the Mayan calendar date seems to match in with the idea that an asteroid is going to smack into us--but if you look at any map of Earth-crossing asteroid paths, (which is very definitely Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! material) you'll see that there are literally thousands of possibilities for a cataclysmic impact. I'm just amazed we've been lucky so far--that big impact in Siberia in 1908, for instance--if that had hit five hours later, the Earth would have turned enough for the rock to hit St. Petersburg. Now that would have had some very interesting effects on the subsequent history of Russia/Soviet Union.
The Mayan Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar are not the same. Is that date (21/12/2012) already converted to the calendar that we use?
I already do and I'm still skinny. I'm blessed. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! *throws hair behind*
