Duck!!!

[Tomorrow]

HOLY CHEEK SQUEEZE, Batman. Did you feel the breeze?

This dude JUST missed taking out a huge hunk of Mother Earth!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-asteroid-earth.html

 

[Rickster71]

Thanks for the info Tomorrow.
This really was very significant, a real close call.
Could you let me know a little sooner next time; so I do have a chance to duck.

 

[mperfct]

"Many more pass this close undetected"—as asteroid 2009 DD45 nearly did."

Nice.

 

[aberkowitz]

Thanks for the info Tomorrow.
This really was very significant, a real close call.
Could you let me know a little sooner next time; so I do have a chance to duck.

Not sure I'd want to know when to duck. If the world is going to end, I think I'd rather just be clueless and happy .

 

[Tomorrow]

Thanks for the info Tomorrow.
This really was very significant, a real close call.
Could you let me know a little sooner next time; so I do have a chance to duck.

Here ya go, Rick. These are the known Near Earth Orbital Bodies passing by us through June. Check out March 6! Thousands of these bodies are not being tracked and are unknown, by the way. That was the case with 2009 DD45.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

W H O O S H ! !

 

[Tomorrow]

Thanks for the info Tomorrow.
This really was very significant, a real close call.
Could you let me know a little sooner next time; so I do have a chance to duck.

Come to think of it...where the heck is Astrodon to keep us enlightened? He has probably been incarcerated as part of a governmental coverup of a pending NEO collision...not allowing astonomers or astrophysicists access to the press.

My usual NEO website at JPL hasn't updated collision threats since 2007! Furthermore, the last we heard from them, the astonomical society told us that there was a 1 in 30 chance of biological annihilation on earth in the next 50 years due to an impact.

Hmmmm.

 

[haraldo]

Good that we don't know.....

In this case, Duck'ing would be no good ......

There was this story about this asteroid, I think it was in 2001... the local meteorologists here talked about a stone twice the size of Manhattan passing between the moon and earth.... if this hit the earth none of us would be sitting here today, so we were lucky

 

[Tomorrow]

Good that we don't know.....

In this case, Duck'ing would be no good ......

There was this story about this asteroid, I think it was in 2001... the local meteorologists here talked about a stone twice the size of Manhattan passing between the moon and earth.... if this hit the earth none of us would be sitting here today, so we were lucky

Yes we were lucky. It was 2004. I'm not old enough yet to want to be squished like a bug under some giant, iron potato. Let's keep dodging and weaving people.

 

[haraldo]

Yes we were lucky. It was 2004. I'm not old enough yet to want to be squished like a bug under some giant, iron potato. Let's keep dodging and weaving people.

aha....... me too, I have too many things to do, but thinking about how close this was.....
Like shooting at a target 100 feet away and miss by half an inch...
So let's just enjoy what we have and have great fun, at least that's what I'm going to do

yhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[alexwakelin]

No need to worry guys, at only 20 - 50 meters wide, that asteroid would probably only threaten a small city. Keep in mind, that 75% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, so the chances of it not striking land are in our favor. Depending on the composition (stone or iron) a twenty meter asteroid may even nearly completely burn/break up before it even makes it through the atmosphere. NASA does track thousands of asteroids that cross Earth's orbit and are large enough to threaten large cities. We would have plenty of warning if one were on a collision course towards Earth. On average, an asteroid of that size only strikes the earth once every 100,000 years or so, the last one was 50,000 years ago right in my back yard.

http://www.meteorcrater.com/index.php

It was an iron meteorite 50 meters in diameter. Also, iron meteorites are more rare than stoney meteorites, so the odds are in our favor that the next one will most likely be made of stone and if it makes it through the atmosphere it will land in the ocean, or in a remote location.

Don't duck, you just might miss a very nice fireworks show!

(yes, I am an astronomy nerd)

 

[haraldo]

Thx for good info

 

[MatthewB.]

I don't worry cause I know when the next big one comes, that NASA will send up Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi t save us all.

Seriously I wish they had given us a heads up. I have serious plans on dying with a drink in one hand and a hot women sitting on the other, and without a heads up, I could've been taken out sitting at my stupid desk at work. C'mon Government let us all die in a world of chaos and anarachy with a hot blond.

I wonder if any cameras caught the close encounter.

 

[haraldo]

Hard to believe how little we know about ourselves, and we call ourselves intelligent people, at least I sometimes do

We don't even know why a ball drops to the ground, there's something called gravity but we don't even know what it is, and nobody proved what it is.... there's something called gravity waves, but nobody ever proved it or measured it in any way....

Stephen Hawkings suggest that we in order to build a particle accelerator where we may get particles loaded with high enough energy to prove the Great Unified Force...that makes everything fir together..... we need a system the size of..... yes.... the diameter of the solar system; this sounds quite unpractical....

So in this world where we think we know everything and everything can be measured.... even the simplest things about physics are too hard for human to grasp

So how can we stop these things when we don't even know the simplest things about the universe

Thank God for Bruce Willis

 

[lsiberian]

Hard to believe how little we know about ourselves, and we call ourselves intelligent people, at least I sometimes do

We don't even know why a ball drops to the ground, there's something called gravity but we don't even know what it is, and nobody proved what it is.... there's something called gravity waves, but nobody ever proved it or measured it in any way....

Stephen Hawkings suggest that we in order to build a particle accelerator where we may get particles loaded with high enough energy to prove the Great Unified Force...that makes everything fir together..... we need a system the size of..... yes.... the diameter of the solar system; this sounds quite unpractical....

So in this world where we think we know everything and everything can be measured.... even the simplest things about physics are too hard for human to grasp

So how can we stop these things when we don't even know the simplest things about the universe

Thank God for Bruce Willis

I don't want to close my eyes.

 

[haraldo]

I don't want to close my eyes.

Is that because of Bruce Willis scaring you?

 

[Tomorrow]

Right on, Haraldo. Let those physicists try to explain a woman! Ha.

 

[haraldo]

Right on, Haraldo. Let those physicists try to explain a woman! Ha.

That's even harder to explain than gravity