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Subject Asteroid Hits Earth! How the Doomsday Scenario Would Play Out

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The first word of the incoming missile would likely come from one of three main observatories NASA has assigned to scan the sky for cosmic ordnance all day, every day. But amateurs and academic observatories around the world could spot it too (it was an amateur who discovered 2012 DA14, in fact). We also might not see it at all. Like fighter planes taking advantage of natural blind spots in the sky, asteroids can approach from the direction of the sun, making them impossible to see until it’s way too late. “The smaller ones aren’t even visible until they’re on the way back out,” says Don Yeomans, head of the NEO office.

Read more: http://science.time.com/2013/02/14/asteroid-hits-earth-how-the-doomsday-scenario-would-play-out/#ixzz2KtWtVA25
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Yet, in over 50 years of space observation, they couldn't find an asteroid that passes EVERY god damn YEAR, and in our BACKYARD???

They know about 2012 DA14 for AT LEAST 20 years.It would be totally idiotic to say that they don't know about it, because it's not a damn PULSAR 12 billion LIGHT YEARS away !!!

Why they didn't tell us about it?

The answer is obvious.
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Original Message For the better part of a year, astronomers have known that asteroid 2012 DA14—a medium sized, 150 ft (50 m) rock weighing 143,000 tons—was closing in on us. They knew that it would miss us too, by 17,200 miles (27,700 km). That seems like a big number, but in a solar system measured in billions of miles and a universe measured in billions of light years, it vanishes to inconsequence. The fact is, the odds of our getting clobbered by the rogue rock were in some ways the same as its missing us—at least when you fold into the equation how little it would have taken to change both its course and its impact. So what would those x-factors have been that would have turned a near miss into a true disaster, and what would the nastiness that resulted have looked like?

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