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Asteroid Will Zip Past the Earth in 2029

Step 1: An asteroid is discovered.
Step 2: Uncertain orbits are calculated from spotty tracking data.
Step 3: Possible Earth impacts are noted.
Step 4: Astronomers watch the asteroid for a while, then realize that it's going to miss our planet.
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Step 5: Profit?!
 
Originally posted by: TheChort
Step 1: An asteroid is discovered.
Step 2: Uncertain orbits are calculated from spotty tracking data.
Step 3: Possible Earth impacts are noted.
Step 4: Astronomers watch the asteroid for a while, then realize that it's going to miss our planet.
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Step 5: Profit?!
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Step 6: They could be wrong? Or something may change the orbit!!!
 
Originally posted by: Jehovah
So, uh, when it zips by, and if it's bright enough to be a star . . . won't it blind a lot of people looking at it? 😕
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Then let them sue the asteriod for eye damages.
 
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
 
Originally posted by: CTrain
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
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Not quite. We'll have to hire a crew of renegade but highly skilled drillers to penetrate the asteroid and implant a nuclear weapon, but there will be a malfunction at the last moment and the team leader will sacrifice his life to save the planet, and Aerosmith will write an uber-annoying ballad in his honor.
 
I'll look back on this day and say that I remember seeing an article about it posted on ATOT...
 
Originally posted by: Jehovah
So, uh, when it zips by, and if it's bright enough to be a star . . . won't it blind a lot of people looking at it? 😕
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Are u kidding me?
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: CTrain
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
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Not quite. We'll have to hire a crew of renegade but highly skilled drillers to penetrade the asteroid and implant a nuclear weapon, but there will be a malfunction at hte last moment and the team leader will sacrifice his life to save the planet, and Aerosmith will write an uber-annoying ballad in his honor.
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This is the correct answer.

Koing
 
Originally posted by: CTrain
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
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No. deflecting can be done much more easily, but we'd have to build the rockets.
 
BTW, is the asteroid either moving too fast or not exactly close enough for the Earth's gravitational pull to have any more affect on it ? It seems to be a straight line until it actually PASSES... what about as it's approaching ?
 
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: CTrain
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
Click to expand...

Not quite. We'll have to hire a crew of renegade but highly skilled drillers led by Bruce Willis to penetrate the asteroid and implant a nuclear weapon, but there will be a malfunction at the last moment and the team leader will sacrifice his life to save the planet, and Aerosmith will write an uber-annoying ballad in his honor.
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Fixed.
 
Originally posted by: Jehovah
So, uh, when it zips by, and if it's bright enough to be a star . . . won't it blind a lot of people looking at it? 😕
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i think what they mean is it's as bright as a star from our perspective
 
Originally posted by: rh71
BTW, is the asteroid either moving too fast or not exactly close enough for the Earth's gravitational pull to have any more affect on it ? It seems to be a straight line until it actually PASSES... what about as it's approaching ?
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i bet the gravitational pull of all the fat americans with suck it into earth like a black hole 😛
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
Originally posted by: rh71
BTW, is the asteroid either moving too fast or not exactly close enough for the Earth's gravitational pull to have any more affect on it ? It seems to be a straight line until it actually PASSES... what about as it's approaching ?
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i bet the gravitational pull of all the fat americans with suck it into earth like a black hole 😛
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And then they'll eat it.
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: BriGy86
Originally posted by: rh71
BTW, is the asteroid either moving too fast or not exactly close enough for the Earth's gravitational pull to have any more affect on it ? It seems to be a straight line until it actually PASSES... what about as it's approaching ?
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i bet the gravitational pull of all the fat americans with suck it into earth like a black hole 😛
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And then they'll eat it.
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thats right, the entire population standing there, stareing at the sky, mouths open, and tongues hangin out
 
Originally posted by: rh71
BTW, is the asteroid either moving too fast or not exactly close enough for the Earth's gravitational pull to have any more affect on it ? It seems to be a straight line until it actually PASSES... what about as it's approaching ?
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the orbit looks reasonable to me... hyperbola with the Earth at the focus.
 
Originally posted by: Gibsons
Originally posted by: CTrain
Lets say that the asteroid will collide with the Earth.
They say its about 1000 miles wide....are we able to blow it to pieces before it does damage to the Earth ??
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No. deflecting can be done much more easily, but we'd have to build the rockets.
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your off by a factor of 5200 or so.

1000 feet.
 
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