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An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT!
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ºEATº
User ID: 487814
10/6/2008 4:23 PM
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Behold Damascus a ruinous heap.....
One of GLP's top 10 Woo Woo's (and very proud of it) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 519029
10/6/2008 4:23 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Another doom scenario...maybe it contains space pathogens of some kind -- some of which survive and get spread through wind, water, etc. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518953
10/6/2008 4:23 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Behold Damascus a ruinous heap..... Quoting: ºEATº
Isn't Damascus a ruinous heap already? |
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Cassie :-) 
Warning Do not L@@K into my AV
User ID: 507059
10/6/2008 4:24 PM
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I find the area of impact interesting with there being Obama and Sudan ties.
ATLANTA, Sept. 3, 2008, 12 a.m. - As Barack Obama's lineage continues to be investigated and linked to persons around the world, Southern Sudanese are beginning to lay claim to the first black nominee for a major U.S. political party though his paternal ancestry.
"Obama is a Nilote and his father is a Luo tribe," said Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese ex-child soldier turned rapper. "The Luos came from the upper Nile in the 1500s A.D."
Nilote is a term referring to people of indigenous tribes from Sudan along the upper Nile Valley.
Jal hopes that by exposing the link that a properly informed Obama may form a stronger stance against the Khartoum government if elected.
"I think the only person who would understand the situation in Sudan and try to make a move would be Obama because the descendants of his father were from Sudan," he said.
Story continues below:
[link to www.reddingnewsreview.com]
"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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89446
User ID: 464964
10/6/2008 4:25 PM
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What kind of tail does this thing have? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 426925
Asteroids don't have tails. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 4:25 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
[link to i34.tinypic.com]
a Google Earth screen capture of it's predicted impact co-ords.
33° E, 21° N |
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floydian slip
User ID: 335173
10/6/2008 4:26 PM
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woooooooooo!
wait
panic sex?? Quoting: Tessa
I'll fuck to that!!
Hoooray for Asteroid doom!! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 434119
10/6/2008 4:26 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
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Wraith1970
User ID: 444477
10/6/2008 4:26 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
woooooooooo!
wait
panic sex?? Quoting: Tessa
Woooohooo! Line forms here. |
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ntisithoj
User ID: 493928
10/6/2008 4:27 PM
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Ure mentions the time oct 7 7:10 UTC
meteor oct 7 2:46 UTC
!!!
What is EST time Quoting: Anonymous Coward 506720
10:46 AM
[link to kaput.com] |
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beezle
User ID: 519010
10/6/2008 4:28 PM
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If it's made up of heavy metal... the God help us all.
This is what would happen if its made up of iron, if it strikes at 17 km/s and 45 degree angle:
The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 13900 meters = 45600 ft
The projectile bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 3440 meters = 11300 ft
The residual velocity of the projectile fragments after the burst is 6.24 km/s = 3.88 miles/s
The energy of the airburst is 4.19 x 1015 Joules = 1.00 x 100 MegaTons.
Large fragments strike the surface and may create a crater strewn field. A more careful treatment of atmospheric entry is required to accurately estimate the size-frequency distribution of meteoroid fragments and predict the number and size of craters formed.
[ link to www.lpl.arizona.edu]
It's traveling a bit under 13km a second. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 487481
10/6/2008 4:29 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Ure mentions the time oct 7 7:10 UTC
meteor oct 7 2:46 UTC
!!!
What is EST time
10:46 AM Quoting: ntisithoj
Shouldn't that be 10:46 PM tonight? (Oct 6, 2008) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 473581
10/6/2008 4:30 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
One link
[link to blogs.discovermagazine.com]
Two Links
[link to space.newscientist.com]
rock-found-on-collision-course-with-earth.html
Three Links
[link to blogs.fayobserver.com]
the articles just say that the thing will enter the atmosphere above sudan. Its likely to break up there, but if it does reach the ground, it won't necessarily hit in Sudan. They say it will be moving northeast to southwest, so it could hit the from sudan to the central african republic |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 497288
10/6/2008 4:30 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Doom or no doom, this is still preety cool for something like this to happen in our livetimes. |
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ºEATº
User ID: 487814
10/6/2008 4:31 PM
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No.
UTC time of Ocober 7 2:46 is 9:45PM Ocober 6 in New York
One of GLP's top 10 Woo Woo's (and very proud of it) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 4:31 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
OCT 07
0246 UTC (Untransubstantiated Timebinding Counterpropagation)
Can anyone tell me when this thing will actually frigging hit! in ENGLISH, in GMT or somthing!!
Everyone can understand GMT because its not + or - from any other timezone!! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 426925
10/6/2008 4:32 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
And where are the illuminati and Bush? Are they hiding in the caves? If not, then this is probably a false alarm. Anybody know where they are today? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 508587
10/6/2008 4:32 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
[link to space.newscientist.com]
For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage, burning up in the atmosphere somewhere above northern Sudan in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It may, however, produce a brilliant 'shooting star'.
The space rock, dubbed 8TA9D69, was first spotted on Monday in a survey by the Mt Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
Its brightness suggests it is no more than about 5 metres across – so small it will likely be destroyed in the atmosphere, says Andrea Milani Comparetti of the University of Pisa in Italy.
Rocks of such size are thought to hit the atmosphere every few months, says Steve Chesley, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"The event is not unusual – what is unique is that it's been predicted beforehand," Milani told New Scientist. "This is the first time we see something arriving, compute that it's going to impact, and announce it is going to impact before it happens."
The rock is due to hit the atmosphere above northern Sudan on Tuesday at 0246 GMT. It will be travelling from west to east, and may be visible from a few hundred kilometres away.
Long trail
The meteor it produces is likely to be spectacular. The rock will release about 1 kiloton of energy in the atmosphere – the equivalent of a low-energy nuclear bomb, says Milani. But it's not clear whether it will do so all at once or over a longer period, perhaps lasting a minute or so.
It will hit the atmosphere at an angle of 20°, so "it will make a long trail in the atmosphere", says Milani. "But we cannot honestly predict how long it will be. [The rock] might end up quite far – above the Red Sea or Saudi Arabia – or it might explode and disappear sooner."
If it disintegrates all at once, it would produce a bright flash of light and a loud sonic boom, says Chesley.
This space rock is so small it is unlikely to cause any damage. But it is a reminder that larger and potentially more dangerous rocks might also be on a collision course with Earth.
Impact probability
Milani and Chesley are members of the only two groups in the world that calculate the probability that a given space rock will hit the Earth. They both say that they are delighted at how quickly this meteorite was determined to be on a collision course with Earth – since it was only discovered at about 0630 GMT on Monday.
"For us, [we feel] satisfaction because our computation worked and because this kind of accident – which is without any risk that anybody [would be] hurt – will make people more aware of the fact that something has to be done about asteroids in case a bigger one arrives," Milani told New Scientist.
"The fact that we're able to make this prediction proves the system's working," says Chesley. "These sized objects are not the ones we're most concerned about – there are tens of thousands of much larger objects that could cause real damage on the ground that are still yet to be found."
Despite the advanced warning, there is probably too little time to mount a mission to observe the atmospheric impact from an aeroplane, as sometimes happens during known meteor showers, says Milani. "But now that this is out in the public, anybody who has a telescope is going to be pointing it in that direction," Chesley says.
Comets and Asteroids – Learn more about the threat to human civilisation in our special report. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518841 (OP)
10/6/2008 4:32 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
OCT 07
0246 UTC (Untransubstantiated Timebinding Counterpropagation)
Can anyone tell me when this thing will actually frigging hit! in ENGLISH, in GMT or somthing!!
Everyone can understand GMT because its not + or - from any other timezone!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518806
gmt is utc |
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ºEATº
User ID: 487814
10/6/2008 4:33 PM
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UTC October 7 @ 2:46 = October 6 @ 9:46pm in New York
One of GLP's top 10 Woo Woo's (and very proud of it) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 500644
10/6/2008 4:33 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
HOLY SHIT!!!
Did George Soros Discover this asteroid in 1981?
3652 Soros | 1981 TC3 | George Soros (György Soros), Hungarian-born American businessman and philosopher.
[link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 458312
10/6/2008 4:34 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Behold Damascus a ruinous heap..... Quoting: ºEATº
HOTDAMN BOY!My thoughts exactley! Wouldn't that be the shit?!? If that sombitch took out Damascus?1?
With God, all things are possible! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 511901
10/6/2008 4:34 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
if true that is the exact time that the webbots predicted. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 438861
Sorry your rong 7.10 UTC is the time on Oct 7th for the Webbots |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 508587
10/6/2008 4:34 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 500644
10/6/2008 4:34 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
I mean named after George Soros
3652 Soros (1981 TC3) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on October 06, 1981 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj. |
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TT
User ID: 189887
10/6/2008 4:35 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 518841
thank you for this presentation |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 508587
10/6/2008 4:35 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
lol at this comment from the Bad Astronomy link posted above:
"Gah!!!! You do a search for “asteroid 2008 TC3″ and the first hit that comes up is some woo site called godlikeproductions. Sigh…"
Hahah |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 518806
10/6/2008 4:35 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
well i cant even use windows timezone clock function to work back from new york time becase New York time is not the offical name. There is no New York time. What time zone are you within?? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 500644
10/6/2008 4:36 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
nevermind... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 322388
10/6/2008 4:36 PM | | Re: An asteroid (ASTEROID 2008 TC3) is going to hit Earth TONIGHT! | Quote |
woooooooooo!
wait
panic sex?? Quoting: Tessa
Yes Tessa. Panic sex is goooood... |
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