Asteroid the size of Texas, due to hit 9/27 2004?

[edro]

Found an online version on Maxim's site, link is in main post.

He said there was more than that in the magazine.

 

[maziwanka]

idiot

 

[edro]

Added an astronomy discussion board link...

 

[PanzerIV]

Nostradamus AND Miss Cleo predicted it so we're all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!










Just kidding.

 

[Savij]

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/index.html#legend

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Hopefully it breaks into two pieces, hitting California and Sydney at the same time.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: Insane3D

Originally posted by: SampSon
Hopefully it hits square on texas.

 

[Jhill]

I think it's legit. I first heard about it from here.

HERE

 

[cjchaps]

You have no chance to survive, make your time!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: cjchaps
You have no chance to survive, make your time!

LOL!

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I think it's legit. I first heard about it from here.

HERE

Hahahaha.

I read it here: Here...

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: edro13
Where did you hear this from Skoorby?

I made it up. Your roomate needs to stop drinking and getting high

No asteroid will hit us. One need only look on CNN. No story about an asteroid in halloween, is there? If one was going to hit you can rest assured that we'd all have heard about it.

BAHAHA! :beer:

 

[trek]

A handy checklist of things to do before the big one hits.

Go up a skyscraper and whack balls off the roof. So what if you kill people? We?re all gonna die anyway.
Build a crayfish gun. Fire it at oncoming cars.
Admit that President Bush?s idea about moon settlements maybe wasn?t as moronic as it sounded.

Heh..

 

[lancestorm]

If you have last month's Maxim, it is their big picture story like in the first 30 pages or so ....

edit:// i'm with stupid

 

[tfinch2]

so it's gonna hit WHERE I LIVE ON MY BIRTHDAY?!?!? AHHHH

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Sounds like an excellent oppurtunity to make some money.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: JBT
Your freind is stupid. He read that in Maxim I bet... I saw that arcticle It saif it would hit but it is a lie. I belive in real life that it was a 68% chance it would come a few hundred thousand miles away. Which is close but not a direct hit lol.

I read that too...it was a good article. Told what would happen if a rock that size hit us.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: NesuD
pfft! Not worried, Bruce Willis will save us.

 

[pcmodem]

Since it was in the APRIL edition of Maxim, in their Stupid Fun section, it's a joke...


April Fools, :beer:
PCM



EDIT: I expect Maxim's article is referring to Toulatis
Toutatis Passing Earth on Sept 29th At About 4 Times Distance to the Moon

 

[earthman]

After some investigation, this appears to come from some misinterpreted information in a highly technical article discussing how one might calculate trajetories of a hypothetical object similar to the asteroid Toutatis, which will approach the Earth to within perhaps a million miles in September. The results of this hypothetical orbit were back-calculated to give the impact date in Sept. of this year. This was probably a mathematical exercise by advanced astronomy students that got blown all out of proportion. People should read things more carefully. I don't know if the Maxim article is tongue-in-cheek or the guy was really that confused, I suspect the former.
Below is a list of close approaches by asteroids for Sept. of this year. From Harvard website. The distance from the earth to the moon is about .0026 AU I think. LINK

OBJECT--------------DATE-------------DISTANCE (AU)-----ORBIT ARC

2000 AE205----------2004 Sept. 4.62----0.1611-------1-opposition, arc = 53 days MPC 39582
2002 CE26-----------2004 Sept. 5.47----0.1019-------2 oppositions, 2002-2003 MPO 47171
2003 UX34-----------2004 Sept. 8.85----0.05239------1-opposition, arc = 26 days MPO 57991
2001 CC21-----------2004 Sept.14.11---0.08536------5 oppositions, 1982-2004 MPO 57800
1998 OX4------------2004 Sept.14.43----0.06429------3 oppositions, 1998-2003 MPO 47733
(11066) Sigurd------2004 Sept.15.54----0.1367-------5 oppositions, 1992-1999 MPC 35228
(66063) 1998 RO1--2004 Sept.26.89----0.09213------7 oppositions, 1996-2003 E2003-R23
2002 VZ91-----------2004 Sept.28.94----0.04882------1-opposition, arc = 16 days MPO 41866
(4179) Toutatis------2004 Sept.29.57----0.01036------8 oppositions, 1988-2000 MPO 6175