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An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 505084
10/6/2008 8:35 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
13 minutes to go folks....
no, 2 hours and 13 minutes Quoting: Anonymous Coward 505084
10:30 - 10:50 EDT keep an eye out |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519215
10/6/2008 8:37 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
13 minutes to go folks....
no, 2 hours and 13 minutes Quoting: Anonymous Coward 505084
shit, true
but not 2hrs 13
it's 1hr 10 mins |
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CraftZanie
User ID: 519166
10/6/2008 8:37 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
good point. So what is it? A meteorite or larger then 10 meters across?
Little f*^k ups like this can spill the beans early.
Asteroids vary greatly in size, from a diameter of 975 kilometres for 1 Ceres and over 500 kilometres for 2 Pallas and 4 Vesta down to rocks just tens of metres across.
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
I doubt this thing is in the kilometers because it would have raised more alarm bells.
But it is at least 10 meters across because that's what makes it an asteroid.
so we already know we have been lied too!!!
seriously, they lied to us and to protect what little secret they know?
to call it an asteroid means it must be 10 meters or more. But they say its a few meters, that would make it a meteorite, being less then 10 meters.
We can out right see there is manipulation of the scientific facts. Lets say it 23 meters (an asteroid by size definition) and some high up brass says, make it 2-3 meters for public. Forgeting to call it a meteorite. Slip up!
So why release the data if they feel the need to hide something?
Cuz some telescope uncontrolled by TPB saw this little giggler.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 513288
10/6/2008 8:38 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
i hope this is no false, you know what...sure is unexpected. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 514538
10/6/2008 8:39 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Someone has to FREAKING GET SOME PEPLES ATTENTION, SO SUM1 RECORDs THIS!!! Put it on youtube.... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519218
10/6/2008 8:40 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
space based weapon use...blame on asteroid? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 402574
10/6/2008 8:41 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Monday, October 06, 2008
Predicted asteroid impact Oct 7 02:46 UT
[ link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan
From: Don Yeomans NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
October 6, 2008
A very small, few-meter sized asteroid, designated 2008 TC3, was found Monday morning by the Catalina Sky Survey from their observatory near Tucson Arizona. Preliminary orbital computations by the Minor Planet Center suggested an atmospheric entry of this object within a day of discovery. JPL confirmed that an atmospheric impact will very likely occur during early
morning twilight over northern Sudan, north-eastern Africa, at 2:46 UT Tuesday morning. The fireball, which could be brilliant, will travel west to east (from azimuth = 281 degrees) at a
relative atmospheric impact velocity of 12.8 km/s and arrive at a very low angle (19 degrees) to the local horizon. It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere.
Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time.
[ link to www.tvcomm.co.uk]
That's the most useful information I've seen so far.
So... 19 degrees to the local horizon at a velocity of 12km/s equates to approx. 200-250 miles of travel (west-to-east) before what is left - if any - impacts the earth's surface. That would seemingly limit any EMP to an area ranging from N Central - NE Africa.
19.5 degrees |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46471
10/6/2008 8:41 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
good point. So what is it? A meteorite or larger then 10 meters across?
Little f*^k ups like this can spill the beans early.
Asteroids vary greatly in size, from a diameter of 975 kilometres for 1 Ceres and over 500 kilometres for 2 Pallas and 4 Vesta down to rocks just tens of metres across.
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
I doubt this thing is in the kilometers because it would have raised more alarm bells.
But it is at least 10 meters across because that's what makes it an asteroid.
so we already know we have been lied too!!!
seriously, they lied to us and to protect what little secret they know?
to call it an asteroid means it must be 10 meters or more. But they say its a few meters, that would make it a meteorite, being less then 10 meters.
We can out right see there is manipulation of the scientific facts. Lets say it 23 meters (an asteroid by size definition) and some high up brass says, make it 2-3 meters for public. Forgeting to call it a meteorite. Slip up!
So why release the data if they feel the need to hide something?
Maybe they released the data for those smart enough to read between the lines of what is given for sheep consumption. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 506066
10/6/2008 8:42 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOK AT THE ASTEROID BLAST IT COULD KILL YOU. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519180
10/6/2008 8:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOK AT THE ASTEROID BLAST IT COULD KILL YOU. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 506066
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 513288
10/6/2008 8:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Anonymous Coward
"Maybe they released the data for those smart enough to read between the lines of what is given for sheep consumption"
LOL |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519214
10/6/2008 8:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOK AT THE ASTEROID BLAST IT COULD KILL YOU. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 506066
LEARN TO USE YOUR keyboard! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 514931
10/6/2008 8:44 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
I'm in the Southeastern U.S. Any chance we can see it at all here? Should I stay up, in other words, or wait for photos tomorrow morning? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 505084
10/6/2008 8:45 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
13 minutes to go folks....
no, 2 hours and 13 minutes
shit, true
but not 2hrs 13
it's 1hr 10 mins Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519215
lol...u posted that at 8:37 EDT. Adding 1hr 10 minutes would make it...9:47pm. The target is 10:30-10:50 EDT |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519220
10/6/2008 8:46 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOK AT THE ASTEROID BLAST IT COULD KILL YOU. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 506066
Why? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 166694
10/6/2008 8:46 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 511530
10/6/2008 8:49 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
2 hours outbound |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 46471
10/6/2008 8:50 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
I'm in the Southeastern U.S. Any chance we can see it at all here? Should I stay up, in other words, or wait for photos tomorrow morning? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 514931
It's right at two hours away now and no it won't be a photo op in the US. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519215
10/6/2008 8:51 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
lol...u posted that at 8:37 EDT. Adding 1hr 10 minutes would make it...9:47pm. The target is 10:30-10:50 EDT Quoting: Anonymous Coward 505084
less than 1 hr to go...
"JPL confirmed that an atmospheric impact will very likely occur during early
morning twilight over northern Sudan, north-eastern Africa, at 2:46 UT Tuesday morning."
02:46
dunno how your clocks are working but on mine it says 01:51 UT now |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 433665
10/6/2008 8:52 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA, WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOK AT THE ASTEROID BLAST IT COULD KILL YOU. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 506066
What Area????
I am in Florida |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518712
10/6/2008 8:54 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Small objects are frequently impacting Earth. There is an inverse relationship between the size of the object and the frequency that such objects hit the earth.
Asteroids with a 1 km diameter impact the Earth every 500,000 years on average. Large collisions with five kilometer objects happen approximately once every ten million years. The last known impact of an object of 10 km or more in diameter was the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction event 65 million years ago.
Asteroids with diameters of 5-10 meters impact the Earth's atmosphere approximately once per year, with as much energy as Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, approximately 15 kilotonnes of TNT. These ordinarily explode in the upper atmosphere, and most or all of the solids are vaporized.
Objects of diameters of over 50 meters in diameter strike the Earth approximately once every thousand years, producing explosions comparable to the one observed at Tunguska in 1908.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519180
10/6/2008 8:56 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
all the attention and B.S. on this thread is just ridiculous, you are really the lunatic fringe, this happens every couple months, just first time they have spotted an asteroid this small before it hits. Big whoop... nice little fireball in upper atmosphere, oh no doom! NOT!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 506066
10/6/2008 8:57 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
What Area???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 433665
if you are in Northern Sudan - stay inside and do not go out and look at the asteroid. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 505427
10/6/2008 8:58 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
What Area????
I am in Florida Quoting: Anonymous Coward 433665
me too. any chance we'll catch a glimpse in the US? |
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Eye Am
User ID: 519234
10/6/2008 8:58 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Great Echelon cover for a possible missile attack over the Sudan. BTW, some of the exploiters are allways in the caves (and in orbit) with tech the rest of us only dream of. Eye will save those that are worthy. Think ya are? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519235
10/6/2008 8:59 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 438861
10/6/2008 8:59 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
all the attention and B.S. on this thread is just ridiculous, you are really the lunatic fringe, this happens every couple months, just first time they have spotted an asteroid this small before it hits. Big whoop... nice little fireball in upper atmosphere, oh no doom! NOT!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519180
could be true if it is made up of rock. but if it is iron the impact area could be fucked. do you know what it is made of cause i sure don't? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 123590
10/6/2008 8:59 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Monday, October 06, 2008
Predicted asteroid impact Oct 7 02:46 UT
[ link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]
Small Asteroid Predicted to Cause Brilliant Fireball over Northern Sudan
From: Don Yeomans NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
October 6, 2008
A very small, few-meter sized asteroid, designated 2008 TC3, was found Monday morning by the Catalina Sky Survey from their observatory near Tucson Arizona. Preliminary orbital computations by the Minor Planet Center suggested an atmospheric entry of this object within a day of discovery. JPL confirmed that an atmospheric impact will very likely occur during early
morning twilight over northern Sudan, north-eastern Africa, at 2:46 UT Tuesday morning. The fireball, which could be brilliant, will travel west to east (from azimuth = 281 degrees) at a
relative atmospheric impact velocity of 12.8 km/s and arrive at a very low angle (19 degrees) to the local horizon. It is very unlikely that any sizable fragments will survive passage through the Earth's atmosphere.
Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time.
[ link to www.tvcomm.co.uk]
That's the most useful information I've seen so far.
So... 19 degrees to the local horizon at a velocity of 12km/s equates to approx. 200-250 miles of travel (west-to-east) before what is left - if any - impacts the earth's surface. That would seemingly limit any EMP to an area ranging from N Central - NE Africa.
19.5 degrees
Richard Hoagland is that you? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 505746
10/6/2008 9:00 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
SpaceWeather.com site is down or is it just me..? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519218
10/6/2008 9:01 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
eye am
that's what I'm thinking |
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