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An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 6:36 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
will the UK see it? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519127
weather forecast is FOUL mate. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 6:37 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
will the UK see it? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519127
depends on the properties of this thing. IF its electrically chaged and you believe in the Plasma Cosmological model of the electric universe, yes we will definitely see somthign, and possibly an electrical discharge! |
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BORING
User ID: 415486
10/6/2008 6:37 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Need I say anymore !!
another non-event
PS what time would this be UK time lol |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 496097
10/6/2008 6:38 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
GET IN YOUR BUNKERS NOW TONIGHT WITH FOOD, WATER, AND CANDLE!
Theres somthning about snuggling up in a bunker with food water and a candle... i like the idea, then i again i am very anti clostrophobic. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518806
You're agoraphobic then? lol.. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 6:39 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
I was thinking a gigantic tsunami for Dubai would be appropriate since they have all the money over there now. I guess it is coming in too far south for that. Quoting: Enjoying Beauty in the World
they cant be 100% sure where it will hit, believe me!!
It might hit Dubai, and we can see all the trillionairs billionairs and millionairs get fucked over! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 496097
10/6/2008 6:39 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
I figured it out to be 01:45 U.K. time, I'm off to be before then.. I could be out with the time, better to verify yourself. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 6:40 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Need I say anymore !!
another non-event
PS what time would this be UK time lol Quoting: BORING 415486
0346 |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 6:40 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
well mate its going to impact at 0246 UTC (Untranslatable Timezone Confusion) so work it out yourself what time it will occur in the UK. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 506655
10/6/2008 6:41 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Bring it on!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 6:41 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Need I say anymore !!
another non-event
PS what time would this be UK time lol
0346 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518841
[link to www.timeanddate.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 496097
10/6/2008 6:42 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
"I'm off to be before then"
Bed.. I'm off to bed* before then.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 319930
10/6/2008 6:42 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Would I like to die? Yes, this is so roamntic.. I know what I'm talking about. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 6:42 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
GET IN YOUR BUNKERS NOW TONIGHT WITH FOOD, WATER, AND CANDLE!
Theres somthning about snuggling up in a bunker with food water and a candle... i like the idea, then i again i am very anti clostrophobic.
You're agoraphobic then? lol.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 496097
well not exactally because i dont fear wide open spaces either, i just love small enclosed spaces, especially if i can only just fit in them, like down a cave or somthing. I love to sleep in a sleeping bag in a small tent, with a radio and a torch and some snacks, under the stars, its bliss. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 514132
10/6/2008 6:42 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
just another harbinger of doom |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518712
10/6/2008 6:43 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Tunguska
At around 7:17 a.m. local time, on June 30, 1908 (June 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time)..
Tungus natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there was a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion reported the sound source moving east to north.
The sounds were accompanied by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of miles away. The majority of eyewitnesses reported only the sounds and the tremors, and not the sighting of the explosion. Eyewitness accounts differ as to the sequence of events and their overall duration.
The explosion registered on seismic stations across Eurasia. Although the Richter scale was not developed until 1935, in some places the shock wave would have been equivalent to an earthquake of 5.0 on the Richter scale.
It also produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected in Great Britain. Over the next few weeks, night skies were aglow such that one could read in their light, caused by dust suspended in the stratosphere by the explosion.
In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency that lasted for several months, also from the suspended dust.
The Guinness Book of World Records (1966 edition) states that because of the rotation of Earth, if the collision had occurred 4 hours 47 minutes later, it would have completely destroyed the Imperial Russian capital, Saint Petersburg.
Although the cause is the subject of some debate, the explosion was most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 miles) above Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates for the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.
Although the meteor or comet burst in the air rather than directly hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact.
Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons to as high as 30 megatons of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely - roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion set off in late February 1954; about 1000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and about one third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
The explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles). It is estimated that the earthquake from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.
This possibility has helped to spark discussion of asteroid deflection strategies.
Although the Tunguska event is believed to be the largest impact event on land in Earth's recent history, impacts of similar size in remote ocean areas would have gone unnoticed before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s.
pffooof!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 6:43 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
" I'm off to be before then"
Bed.. I'm off to bed* before then.
or not to be, that is the ques..... |
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Cassie :-) 
Warning Do not L@@K into my AV
User ID: 507059
10/6/2008 6:43 PM
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The Tunguska Event 1908.....
100 Years Later ASTEROID 2008 TC3
"Go with God and may the Holy Spirit give opportunity to share the saving knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with your friends. Because "Friends don´t let Friends die without Jesus" |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 512264
10/6/2008 6:43 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
10:46 eastern 9:46 central 8:46 mountain TOINGT right? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 376196
10/6/2008 6:43 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
DUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! End of Ramadan and this piece of shit asteroid comes in? Will they claim it is the Madhi? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519127
10/6/2008 6:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
" I'm off to be before then"
Bed.. I'm off to bed* before then.
We understood ya. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518136
10/6/2008 6:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Well central standard time in the USA is -6 hours from UTC....so 0246 UTC would be 1646 (845 PM). I HIGHLY doubt that th US will give it ample coverage....you know how our propaganda machine is over here. LOL HOPEFULLY we'll get some damn good video, pics etc of this thing. IF it DOES hit (unlikey unless it has some SERIOUS iron content) then the Sheeple in the US will cover it. Good luck mate!
(I lived in Framlingham from 79-83..yes I'm old LOL) |
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JCD
User ID: 458772
10/6/2008 6:45 PM
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The Tunguska Event 1908.....
100 Years Later ASTEROID 2008 TC3 Quoting: Cassie :-)
Now THAT is creepy!!!!!!!
7:45pm pacific time. 4 hours left to go!
Things change when you least expect it. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518136
10/6/2008 6:45 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
" I'm off to be before then"
Bed.. I'm off to bed* before then.
or not to be, that is the ques.....
LOL NICE! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518781
10/6/2008 6:45 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
4 hours |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 512264
10/6/2008 6:45 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Well central standard time in the USA is -6 hours from UTC....so 0246 UTC would be 1646 (845 PM). I HIGHLY doubt that th US will give it ample coverage....you know how our propaganda machine is over here. LOL HOPEFULLY we'll get some damn good video, pics etc of this thing. IF it DOES hit (unlikey unless it has some SERIOUS iron content) then the Sheeple in the US will cover it. Good luck mate!
(I lived in Framlingham from 79-83..yes I'm old LOL) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518136
Plus the hour of daylight savings time right? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 506066
10/6/2008 6:46 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
OK, first it was "a few meters" then some say "less than 5 meters" then some say "less than 10 meters".
10 meters is pretty dang big. They estimate Tunguska at 20-100 meters.
(OBJECTS IN TELESCOPE MAY BE LARGER THAN THEY APPEAR)
Aaaaaaannnnd...the size of a small nuclear bomb.
I think we Sudan could see some effects from this - especially this will be like high altitude nuclear blast that could damage all electronic systems. Not too many trees over there to blow down, but I hope those poor people will be OK. |
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Ostria
User ID: 519093
10/6/2008 6:46 PM
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Tunguska
At around 7:17 a.m. local time, on June 30, 1908 (June 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time).. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518712
7s and 9s... interesting |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 415486
10/6/2008 6:46 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Need I say anymore !!
another non-event
PS what time would this be UK time lol
well mate its going to impact at 0246 UTC (Untranslatable Timezone Confusion) so work it out yourself what time it will occur in the UK.
LOL best explanation ever of UTC |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518781
10/6/2008 6:48 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
it might bear a strange resemblence to a triangular alien craft but that is typical of this type of asteroid so don't freak out |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 380880
10/6/2008 6:49 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
i didn't realize that objects only a feet across were called asteroids. i thought they were called meteoroids .
i also didn't realize objects that small could be detected and tracked. |
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