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16 Fragments have passed
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Atma
User ID: 74028
5/11/2006 4:49 PM
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73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-AT 2006-May-11 03:24 ±
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-AS 2006-May-11 07:51 ±
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-AV 2006-May-11 13:38 ±
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-BA 2006-May-11 13:49 ±
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-AZ 2006-May-11 16:29 ±
Next one due in 24 minutes. 
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 2006-May-11 21:12 ± |
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Skip
User ID: 80289
5/11/2006 4:50 PM
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yeeee ha hhhooooo ha ha ha ha ha whew was shitein meself for a wile..hhaaaa oooww whahahah yeeeeeeoowww ha ha and HA! |
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Atma
User ID: 74028
5/11/2006 6:26 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
2 more gone
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-BD 2006-May-11 21:53
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-BC 2006-May-11 22:22
Next is AP in about 20 minutes
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-AP 2006-May-11 22:41 ±
That's all today, (that is known)
Tune in tomorrow for BE at about 1:46am EDT
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-BE 2006-May-12 05:46 |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 92200
5/11/2006 6:27 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
When do the "BIG" ones go by? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 74163
5/11/2006 6:27 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzrrrrrooooooooooooommmm!!!! |
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Atma
User ID: 74028
5/11/2006 6:30 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
I'm not sure which are the big ones AC. I think this one was the original big one that has gone by.
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 2006-May-11 21:12
Then probably C
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3-C
Due by at about 6:22am EDT tomorrow. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 2307
5/11/2006 6:36 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Thanks for the "play-by-play" commentary Atma.
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HeidiLore
User ID: 85208
5/11/2006 6:36 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
We're doomed!!!!!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 92233
5/11/2006 6:52 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
I saw Doom appeared so I thought I'd throw Science in to the mix ...
Oh LOL your just worried about the Big Chunks !
A must read (dated 2003) for the truly interested ... scroll down and check out the mention of the Internet
How a Near-Earth Object Impact Might Affect Society
[link to 72.14.207.104]
Warning Time. Currently, it is very unlikely (<20% percent chance) that astronomers will discover such a "small" impactor in advance; if they do, there would likely be years or decades of warning. Most likely, there would be no warning of the impact, but there would be warning before the deadly tsunami effects occurred: it would come from either (a) reports of the impact by military or other marine facilities or (b) by tsunami-warning infrastructures currently in place. It is highly uncertain that source (a) can be relied upon since the event would be unprecedented and reporting channels, if they exist, are untested.
* The actual "near miss" by a bigger-than-Tunguska, >100 m asteroid, say "just" 60,000 km from Earth. A similar event probably will happen during this century. The passing projectile would be visible to ordinary people with their naked eyes. Will people believe scientists or military officials who say it will miss? (The near-miss might well be predicted in advance of its happening, but perhaps with only a few days notice.) |
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Emperor Kenton
User ID: 87536
5/11/2006 6:52 PM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 74163
5/11/2006 6:54 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Looks like we dodged the bullet. |
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End Times Prophet
User ID: 92107
5/11/2006 6:57 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
ALERT: broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann *** will be explained *** tomorrow, may God will, by the prophet that explained comet Bradfield in 2004
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82989
5/11/2006 6:58 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Actually some fragments don't reach their closest to Earth until May 29th.
Check out the orbit of Fragment S for example.
[link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
I also find it rather odd how fragment S is not listed on this chart.
[link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
Sorry to burst peoples bubble but we are not out of the woods from this thing until the second week in June. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 92251
5/11/2006 7:00 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
May 25th - June 6th
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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Emperor Kenton
User ID: 87536
5/11/2006 7:00 PM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 92233
5/11/2006 7:02 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
"Many objects of in-between sizes are worthy of concern, but we know less about them. For example, bodies meters to hundreds of meters in size are especially difficult to detect and track, and they strike so rarely that skygazers and meteor astronomers hardly ever witness their fiery entry into our atmosphere; until they hit and explode, most are also too small and faintly illuminated by sunlight to be detected astronomically, even with large telescopes -- so one could suddenly appear and strike without warning. Actually, as I discuss below, cosmic objects meters to a few km in size do impact often enough to be relevant to our lives and they constitute an important, if atypical, natural hazard. They can be damaging or even devastating, depending on their size."
From the link in my post above |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 55380
5/11/2006 7:04 PM | |
Gaius Germaincus
User ID: 91789
5/11/2006 7:05 PM
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I know its pinned but...
or more like kudos.
Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! |
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Atma
User ID: 74028
5/11/2006 7:07 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
I'm not sure why Fragment S isn't listed. Maybe it has disintegrated?
It's closest approach was supposed to be, according to the orbit sim, 6,590,572.43 miles. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 75309
5/11/2006 7:12 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Are we still alive? Did we survive the initial onslaught? |
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Halcyon Dayz
User ID: 84549
5/11/2006 7:54 PM
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Let me check.
EARTH-DESTRUCTION ALERT LEVEL: GREEN
[link to qntm.org]
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To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. - Tenzin Gyatso
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - William of Ockham
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HALCYON DAYS STOP BEING A DIPSHIT ALL YOUR LIFE YOU MORON - Anonymous Coward |
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Zaphod Beeblbrox
User ID: 83027
5/11/2006 8:20 PM
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I was driving along the Merrimac river about thirty miles inland today looking at the low tide mark thinking about getting washed away, thanks a lot guys!! 
New World Order credo:
The whole world will learn of our peaceful ways, BY FORCE!!! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 74215
5/11/2006 8:22 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
The objects do not "go by" once... they come up from behind us and pass us once, then they travel in parallel for a while, then they pass us one more time later in the month. |
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Halcyon Dayz
User ID: 84549
5/11/2006 9:02 PM
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Then what exactly does the word 'pass' mean?
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. - Don Marquis
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. - Tenzin Gyatso
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - William of Ockham
The truth maybe out there, but lies are inside your head - Terry Pratchett
HALCYON DAYS STOP BEING A DIPSHIT ALL YOUR LIFE YOU MORON - Anonymous Coward |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 91927
5/11/2006 9:52 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
According to the simulator here [link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov] fragment S will be on the plane of the Ecliptic - and Earth's orbit - around 6-8 June. The distance to the Sun will a that point be at a minimum of 1.022 AU. We will cross that region of space on about 13-16 June. This fragment seems indeed somewhat worrying to me.
Woul anyone please comment on this? |
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Mrdjs7
User ID: 88171
5/11/2006 9:59 PM
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So then June is not the date?
Wheeeeeeeew!
Thanks!
.........This Space For Rent......... |
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interest bump
User ID: 92334
5/11/2006 10:19 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Overcast and rain here in NW Wisconsin. Bummer.
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The Wizard
User ID: 92351
5/11/2006 10:47 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Perfectly clear skies here in S.E Texas. The moon is so bright tonite or maybe its because I hav'nt seen it all week with the crappy weather we have had. I just may go  and look for some  for a little while... |
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Stan P.
User ID: 78539
5/11/2006 10:50 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
Fortunately, when you look at the orbits in all 3 dimensions, all comet paths come in High and go out Low (relative to earth's plane).
So they only cross at one point (after the comet has passed, I believe).
So the only collision would be a "ghost" of the comet which came in above our orbit and exited below.
Else we would likely be catching tail debris in our satellites, I would imagine.
I just hope there's no significant pieces that are un-detected or un-reported.
The 3BD piece may have yet to cross earth's plane. But we won't be there yet.
Stan P. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 91037
5/11/2006 10:53 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
I wonder if these comets will affect us next year, when they'll be significantly closer to earth |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 9343
5/11/2006 10:59 PM | | Re: 16 Fragments have passed | Quote |
This puppy seems to be cutting it close:
(2004 XP14) 2006-Jul-03 04:25 ± < 00:01 1.1/0.0029 1.1/0.0029 17.41 17.35 1.12e+04 19.3
The nominal and minimum are the same at One Lunar Distance. |
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