Scientist confirms extinction event asteroid to hit earth

No. His second one is even more fucked up than the first, to the point it's not even something you can parse. You people keep missing the point. It's fake, the orbit is ridiculous, there is not a population of near earth asteroids that have aphelion distances between Uranus and Neptune with eccentricities just below 1. He constructed it to hit earth (and got close, but no cigar when taking into account things like relativity and the gravity of the planets) which is why he simplified things by setting inclination to an arbitrary and low value (0.005000 - yeah right .005000 exactly) and the longitude of ascending node to 0 exactly. It was a way of simplifying so all he'd have to worry about was a 2 dimensional situation. A real orbit determination would have some sort of real value there for the LAN, even if inclination were small (and the odds of inclination being that nice round number?). The second set given are even more ridiculous, an epoch of what exactly? It's so screwed up that it looks like it's saying January 1st 2000, in which case the epoch is hell and gone from the supposed impact date. But ok, you want me to run those numbers too with the assumption that I should parse it like it's some super-secret spy code, I'll do it.

Okay the reason we have waited before making the announcement is because we have at this very moment, a trained team in space ready to try and blow the object up.

We will know in the next hour if they have been succesfful.

If not, an immediate television broadcast will be made

Just a thought....

What if the epoch was changed to the mar 25 date. Am I sort of understanding this right?

Does that change anything? Is that how it works?

Call me any sort of ridicule name again.. and i leave this thread forever

I am fast as breaking point!

Call me any sort of ridicule name again.. and i leave this thread forever

I am fast as breaking point!

But that's not what it says, at all. I'm running an integration right now with it set to January 1st 2000, since that's the date it seems to indicate if you take it using the same logic used for the first set presented.

Ah. Definitely waiting for it! Thx!

Ha. Ha ha. That's funny, actually. Ok, so the second set misses earth by a bigger margin than the first set (no doubt because whoever tried to construct this probably did so without taking into account the gravity of the planets, relativity, etc - they probably thought this was another impactor orbit) BUT the asteroid does cross earth's orbit at midnight on April 1st, 2013. Cute. Whoever did this at least had a sense of humor.

WAIT....WHAT!!???

You mean it wasn't gibberish???!!!

Holy Crap! So what is going on with this guy?

He's obviously NOT the OP!

But what does that now mean?

Back behind

It wasn't gibberish, but it also wasn't a good idea to set the epoch at January 1st when constructing the elements. That meant a larger amount of error in trying to construct a fake impact trajectory - a decade worth of error between the epoch and the would-be impact. It was obviously a joke, I don't know why you're all "hiding" unless you were actually the one who posted the joke and trying to play along. Cute, if so. I lol'ed when I saw the date that it crossed earth's orbit.

It wasn't gibberish, but it also wasn't a good idea to set the epoch at January 1st when constructing the elements. That meant a larger amount of error in trying to construct a fake impact trajectory - a decade worth of error between the epoch and the would-be impact. It was obviously a joke, I don't know why you're all "hiding" unless you were actually the one who posted the joke and trying to play along. Cute, if so. I lol'ed when I saw the date that it crossed earth's orbit.

WAIT....WHAT!!???

You mean it wasn't gibberish???!!!

Holy Crap! So what is going on with this guy?

He's obviously NOT the OP!

But what does that now mean?

Back behind

Call me any sort of ridicule name again.. and i leave this thread forever

I am fast as breaking point!

Retard, cock gobbler, cockmonger, idiot, extra-chromosome cowboy, mother fucker, father fucker, stupid fuck, I could go on if you want.

You are definitely smart! you actually nailed it on the head!

Hope I don't get banned and more importantly...

Hope you don't feel like I waisted your time!

Just trying to give a little fun mystery to play with.