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WTF !! - ASTEROID Impact With EARTH 02.15.2013 ?? - Is This The End ?? | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 31341153  United Kingdom01/04/2013 11:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | is that is 14.000 miles from earth and between the sats we going get flak Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20217625 It is. A collision with a satellite is the greatest risk from this passage. Search: Kessler Syndrome.  Ah, but that's a real world concern, not nearly sensational enough for GLP (by virtue of it being a real concern). it's highly unlikely though. i don't think people on here realise just how big space is. the posts about 'will comet so and so hit asteroid so and so into the moon sending the moon careering into the earth' are always the best ones, I feel!  |
Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator  User ID: 4211721  United States01/04/2013 11:42 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | is that is 14.000 miles from earth and between the sats we going get flak Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20217625 It is. A collision with a satellite is the greatest risk from this passage. Search: Kessler Syndrome. Ah, but that's a real world concern, not nearly sensational enough for GLP (by virtue of it being a real concern). it's highly unlikely though. i don't think people on here realise just how big space is. the posts about 'will comet so and so hit asteroid so and so into the moon sending the moon careering into the earth' are always the best ones, I feel! Highly unlikely is still better than simply being completely wrong. I love the part of these threads where the "doom hangover" comes after nothing happens and everyone who believed it is left scratching their heads and making up reasons as to why. They never seem to figure it out.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 4613981 United States01/04/2013 11:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No risk to hit but if there was any it will be equilavent to exploding 2-3 megaton nuclear bomb. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31470561 how do come up with that sum? you don't know the mass so it could be a 500meg or more. 2012 DA14 is a near earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of about 45 meters and an estimated mass of about 130,000 metric tons |
| TastyThoughts User ID: 1308649 United States01/04/2013 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Elemental Thx. Is that big enough to do damage? You'd have to ask someone more informed than me but it would depend on where it hit I would say :) True, land or sea + proximity "They cannot see what's-up if They are looking down." (TastyThoughts) "Something is smelly! Something is smelly, like an old barnacle encrusted shoe washing ashore in the middle of summer." (TastyThoughts) "Yes happy Earth day. Now go tell the wicked to stop damaging the Human Species therefore/and the Earth; For, they are discombobulating the entire Universe and upsetting the Most High God." (TastyThoughts) |
| Angel Helper User ID: 283243 United States01/04/2013 11:46 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well I could spend weeks trying to teach a course on celestial mechanics, but in short, it's traveling above earth's escape velocity and its trajectory does not bring it close enough to earth to experience atmospheric drag, let alone impact. Earth's gravity will affect its orbit, but it will not "pull it in." Dr Astro, that was very nicely said and explained. Live and let live, for we all have our own lessons to learn. |
| Halcyon Dayz, FCD User ID: 31033756  Netherlands01/04/2013 11:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A collision with a satellite is the greatest risk from this passage. Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Search: Kessler Syndrome. Ah, but that's a real world concern, not nearly sensational enough for GLP (by virtue of it being a real concern). So true.  Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 30890652 United States01/04/2013 12:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well I could spend weeks trying to teach a course on celestial mechanics, but in short, it's traveling above earth's escape velocity and its trajectory does not bring it close enough to earth to experience atmospheric drag, let alone impact. Earth's gravity will affect its orbit, but it will not "pull it in." Well if the Earth does have a slight affect on it, could it possible pull it a little closer so the next pass is even closer to us? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 30890652 United States01/04/2013 12:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well I could spend weeks trying to teach a course on celestial mechanics, but in short, it's traveling above earth's escape velocity and its trajectory does not bring it close enough to earth to experience atmospheric drag, let alone impact. Earth's gravity will affect its orbit, but it will not "pull it in." Well if the Earth does have a slight affect on it, could it possible pull it a little closer so the next pass is even closer to us? Possibly. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29307000 United States01/04/2013 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why do any of you think it will impact, when the sources the OP posted specifically state that it will not? And if your answer is "It's from the government/media so you can't trust anything they say!!!", then why do you believe them when they say there's even an asteroid in the first place? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1779676 United States01/04/2013 12:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Elemental Thx. Is that big enough to do damage? Yes that would do more damage than most bombs we have set off |
| FTM User ID: 26463917 United Kingdom01/04/2013 12:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why do any of you think it will impact, when the sources the OP posted specifically state that it will not? And if your answer is "It's from the government/media so you can't trust anything they say!!!", then why do you believe them when they say there's even an asteroid in the first place? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29307000 Cherry picking of when to believe MSM happens a lot on here. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 13823119  Ireland01/04/2013 12:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Elemental Thx. Is that big enough to do damage? If it landed on your city it would!!! LOL!!!! Thanx for the laff! |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 218496  Puerto Rico01/04/2013 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good places to hit .. :) Wall Street ... US gold reserve Texas big refinery along US strategic petrol reserve,, White house wile all senators pressident & staff are on it along all word bankers.... US world bank centrAL OFFICES ... UNITED NATIONS ... ONLY if god listened to claims of justice !... Daydream!   |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 31217084 United States01/04/2013 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 2012 DA14 will miss Earth by a almost the distance to the moon or 0.09 LD AND even if it DID hit the Earth it would be a city or county or small state killer but it is too small to do huge damage because it is only 57 meters wide. |
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