NASA marks asteroid TU24 as "extremely urgent"

not extremely urgent, extremely STRONG, which means it will be a very clear radar image, I'm assuming anyway.

what is a tad more concerning is it ''needs astrometry'' which suggests to me it's orbit isn't precisely nailed down yet.

they can't be THAT far off though, can they?

it will be further away than the moon is. Therefore no chance of impact. So whats your point?

Zetas were right again, and so it begins . . .

who are you asking? If it's me, my point is they are saying it's 500000 kms away from us at it's closest, but it ''needs astrometry''

perhaps it'll be closer, or further away, who knows? they don't. Obviously.

just saying.

Another thing I noticed on that Goldstone page. Did you notice the ''needs astrometry'' rocks that had Yes in bold letters?

Might be worth looking at those suckers orbits?

Maybe a piece of mars will be the burning mountain thrown to the earth? Could be.......Hi ya phoenix!

1999 AQ10 YES

2000 YA YES

1998 QE2 YES

2001 AV43 YES

2002 SR41 YES

2002 CU11 YES

2004 BL86 YES

nah, you might get lucky though and have a Mars rock ejected from the impact land in your back yard.

they're worth a bloody fortune!

fingers crossed!

ignore the YES's on those rocks. i shouldn't have included them.

Watch, the next press release will be titled....
Asteroid impact imminent...NASA says, "My bad"

Wow 500K KMS from the earth? Wow.. thats it?? hahaha NOT.. thats so far its not even funny.

Interesting.
Hooray, a new doom date!

DAMN, I hate people that CAN'T READ!






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Well looks like from this the orbits do come damn close togther!!

Wow

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

If anything somer good skywatching

Set the orbit map to Jan 29 the dots come togther yeah eyah granted that could be 1,000,000 miles away lol

Collision is not what we need to be concerened about. There is a a theory that I read about which basically states that large NEO's (Near Earth Objects) can trigger earthquakes. The theory works something like this: As the NEO appraoches the gravitational field of both Earth and the NEO interact with each other. There is a game of gravitational tug of war at play.

Imagine two children holding both ends of a rope as far a part as possible. The rope represents the gravitational attraction between celestrial bodies. They then run towards each other and bypass each other at the mid point. This represents the Near Earth Miss. They continue running opposite of each other until they reach the full legth of the rope. This the point where the gravitational influence is released. At this point the weaker child will let go and be released from the rope. The stronger child (Earth) will be left holding the rope. At the point just before the stronger child wins their hands would be fully extended and then violently drawn inward at the moment of the weaker childs (asteroid) releases. This is a very rudimentary way to describe it but I feel it illustrates the theory affectively.

I think it is safe to say that the end of January to beginning of March that a large earthquake may be in the works.

ROFL - now I have seen some dumb things said on GLP. This is pretty near the top!

You took the words right out of my mouth!! What if these two seperate objects are only part of a larger object which broke up and could have produced even more undetectable objects? This begs the question--what would be easier; tell the world that there is an inbound object and there is nothing anyone can do but dig in and pray, or say nothing until after there is a mile-wide crater where New York/Denver/London/Rome/Madrid etc. used to be?

No worries...after January 30th.

[link to www.badastronomy.com]

Wow two crappy sayings in one!

OMG EVERYONE RUN!!!

:Fleeing mo:

Search Google for "pha tu24"

This asteroid is on the list of potentially hazardous asteroids.

So, that means it's not dangerous?