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Asteroid will have a near miss in 2029
Go here to read more details...
http://www.world-science.net/otherne...steroidfrm.htm btw, how do they know for certain it won't strike the earth if it will approach within 25,000 miles? It says that the object will be so near, observers will be able to sight it with the naked eye...that's close! |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:30:57 -0500, "Hop" wrote:
Go here to read more details... http://www.world-science.net/otherne...steroidfrm.htm btw, how do they know for certain it won't strike the earth if it will approach within 25,000 miles? Basically,The same way they can calculate the trajectory of a space probe, and get it to where they want it to be. It says that the object will be so near, observers will be able to sight it with the naked eye...that's close! but no cigar. :-) -- Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult: http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down." |
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Hop wrote:
btw, how do they know for certain it won't strike the earth if it will approach within 25,000 miles? It says that the object will be so near, observers will be able to sight it with the naked eye...that's close! For a couple of weeks, they actually did believe it might hit Earth. The highest probability in the process of calculating it's trajectory was 1/37th - that's about the chance of throwing the same number twice in a row with a die! But, as time goes by, the trajectory calculation gets more and more accurate, so now it can be said that it won't hit earth for certain. Some Slashdot articles on the subject, in chronological order: "Getting worried": http://science.slashdot.org/article....518210&tid=160 http://science.slashdot.org/article....147200&tid=160 http://science.slashdot.org/article....187248&tid=160 "Relief": http://science.slashdot.org/article....355200&tid=160 http://science.slashdot.org/article....354238&tid=160 ~Mik PS: Oh, by the way, it's a "near hit", not a "near miss". A collision is a near miss ("look, the two planes nearly missed!" - "yeah, but not quite!"). -- "The geek shall inherit the earth." -- Rainer Wolfcastle in "Undercover Nerd" |
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42,000 km?
excellent! does anyone have the means to capture it into earth orbit? opportunities like this are literally once-in-a-lifetime! please tell me a its a nickel iron..... |
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beavith wrote:
42,000 km? excellent! does anyone have the means to capture it into earth orbit? It was on such a captured asteroid that the first Warp field test was conducted! ;-) ~Mik PS: read about it in "Star Trek: The Lost Era - Volume 1, the Sundered" -- "The geek shall inherit the earth." -- Rainer Wolfcastle in "Undercover Nerd" |
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Mario Berger wrote:
Hop wrote: btw, how do they know for certain it won't strike the earth if it will approach within 25,000 miles? It says that the object will be so near, observers will be able to sight it with the naked eye...that's close! For a couple of weeks, they actually did believe it might hit Earth. The highest probability in the process of calculating it's trajectory was 1/37th - that's about the chance of throwing the same number twice in a row with a die! But, as time goes by, the trajectory calculation gets more and more accurate, so now it can be said that it won't hit earth for certain. Hi.I wonder if it is possible that the asteroid during that long period get's some "influence" from some other unknown small object that we don't see and that his trajectory would not be that safe as predicted? D. |
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"D@rius" wrote:
snip Hi.I wonder if it is possible that the asteroid during that long period get's some "influence" from some other unknown small object that we don't see and that his trajectory would not be that safe as predicted? There's always a degree of uncertainty, but a small object is unlikely to have other than a small effect, especially over a short time period. -- Odysseus |
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In message , "D@rius" writes
Mario Berger wrote: Hop wrote: btw, how do they know for certain it won't strike the earth if it will approach within 25,000 miles? It says that the object will be so near, observers will be able to sight it with the naked eye...that's close! For a couple of weeks, they actually did believe it might hit Earth. The highest probability in the process of calculating it's trajectory was 1/37th - that's about the chance of throwing the same number twice in a row with a die! But, as time goes by, the trajectory calculation gets more and more accurate, so now it can be said that it won't hit earth for certain. Hi.I wonder if it is possible that the asteroid during that long period get's some "influence" from some other unknown small object that we don't see and that his trajectory would not be that safe as predicted? Well sure. The aerodynamics of porcine animals aren't well established. We could all be dead of bird flu, too. Or eaten by the giant space goat. -- Support the DEC Tsunami Appeal http://www.dec.org.uk/. Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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