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DoomsDay Sep 21st, 2030??

pillage2001

pillage2001

Lifer
They have found a asteroid and it's in a collision course with earth. Chances are 1-500. What do you guys think?? To panic or it'll just be another miss for us?

Personally, I think that everything will just be cool and if it ever hits (touch wood), it'll just wipe out half the population of earth??
 
There is a significant probability that it is merely a spent rocket booster from a previous space mission. If this is true, the threat is negligible.
 
DAmn.......What are the chances, I mean, it's like 8.4 Million miles away and fluctuations might occur on the asteroid itself. Gravity fields might sway the asteroid away or it might clash with some smaller ones and break into pieces?
 


<< Considering that much of the globe is uninhabited or covered with ocean, ?it?s quite likely this could just go ahead and impact, and we would have no trouble at all,? he told MSNBC.com. ?But we don?t know that right now, so that?s why we?re putting out this information.? >>


That guy is an idiot, if an astroid that is that big falls into the ocean, then its going to create flood waves that could be few hundred meters high when they reach the shore, depends on the size of the astroid.
Still, untill they tell us how big it is then I´v got nothing to worry about, still 30 years till it hits 🙂
 
hehe, he sound like he shoulda have watched Deep Impact 😀
2030? thats only some 30 years ahead.... most of yall by then would be oldfarts anyway 😀
 


<< This particular object is no ?Armageddon? asteroid, however: Based on its brightness, astronomers are guessing that the object is 30 to 70 meters (yards) wide. The upper end of that range would put 2000 SG344 on the level of the Tunguska Meteorite, which flattened a wide swath of Siberian forest in 1908. That blast was thought to be the equivalent of 15 million tons of TNT ? compared with a 20,000-ton yield for the Hiroshima bomb.
?You certainly wouldn?t want to be at the impact point, because there?s a good chance it would make it through the atmosphere ? but at most we would have really local consequences,? said astronomer Paul Chodas of NASA?s Near-Earth Object Program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. >>


guys it's just a small one. 30-70 meters wide?? Sure it will be a powerful explosion but the effects will only be local. It's not going to block out sunlight for 10 years..that's something a several mile wide asteroid would do. They would know exactly where it would hit and people could leave if it was a populated area. AND it's 30 years away. So who gives a sh!t now?
 


<< That guy is an idiot, if an astroid that is that big falls into the ocean, then its going to create flood waves that could be few hundred meters high when they reach the shore, depends on the size of the astroid. >>


Czar, WTF? Do you know how big it would have to be to create several hundred meter high waves AND have them travel to the shores? what if it landed in the middle of the ocean? were talking about a 30-70 meter rock here...not the crap you see in hollywood. I wouldn't call someone at NASA an idiot...especially someone who works at the Jet Propulsion labratory. Most of those guys are geniuses and they know what they are talking about when tracking asteroids like this is their job.
 
kami

An astroid about the size of a basketball is enough to remove a big city from the face of this planet. An astroid that is about 60meters long could take out ALOT more. It also depends on the angle it goes down, if it goes sideways then we will see waves few hundred meters high, if it goes stright down then it will be alot less. It also depends alot on how much of it will burn up before the impact.
 
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