OMG! Asteroid discovered May 28 can take out satellites May 29... historic close approach without warning!

I hope it's approaching us with cheese in mind.

good. fuck those satellites... always spying on me. >(

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We knew what you meant just a bunch of jackass idiots on here!

hope it hits saudi arabia, or better yet, israel but i doubt i will be that accurate considering israel is so tiny

You put so much work into your threads. Thankyou, they are so interesting.

Will pass over...

Iraq, Iran and Fukushima... but not Washington DC

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I think its possible pieces of this thing could decide to come down and say hello to us to be honest :/

I did just a quick approximation on my calculator which isn't exact, but at .05 LD and using 238,000 miles as 1LD, the asteroid will pass by us somewhere around 12000 miles.

That's pretty close :)

I think this thread is missing the point.

Especially this talk about a potential major earthquake from a schoolbus sized rock 20,000km away?

You need to think past that and to what it truly could mean. Just think what you could do with your own schoolbus if you drove it over a fault line yourself!

Even better, you could get 10 friends and a FLEET of buses.

They're already in the atmosphere, so they won't break up or anything. We're talking 20 hiroshimas at that point. Maybe 30!

are we there yet? this shit's unreal. I had a steak for lunch, but couldn't finish it.

Too small to have gravity effect.

i find it absolutely amazing that earth has not been hit, in the last 2012 years...by a major asteroid.

space is infinite, seems like earth has been lucky for to long.

Floated her "good sport" green karma. Hope she forgives us

if we see a earthquake on Iraq, Iran...Fukushima coincidence or asteroid transit...

Its almost like we are under tracer fire and "its" dialing in on us.

Almost like "Starship Troopers"

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:sheepee:

There is no gravity



The Earth sucks

JK

Isn't this what van Braun said about the enemies?

Commies, Terrorists, Rogue States, Asteroids, Aliens.

All this hype on asteroids lately has us moving to the final phase which is where things should finally get fun. (fighting asteroids is pretty f'n boring)

Historic actually

Apparently this is the 6th closest approach in all recorded history. COOOOOL.

one trajectory map

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Its gonna hit tehran.

Imagine that?

History of Asteroid Impacts
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"... estimated the annual risk of a fatal asteroid impact at one in 90..."

So, will regular people be able to see it? Or just those with super-duper telescopes? Will it show up on Trin's telescope?

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