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Offline Black Wolf

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It won't hit...
Reply #20 on: February 08, 2005, 04:37:26 pm
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Originally posted by Ai No Koriida

A 320 meter rock would be something to worry about, should it hit Earth (take Tunguska for an example). What if it would hit a densely populated area?

And Jeryko, kick-ass site :D


Tungska wasn't a hit, it exploded in the atmosphere. Though the equivalent force of levelling 2000 square kilometers of forest over St. Petersburg (if it'd hit a few hurs earlier) wouldn't have been something you'd like to be close enough to witness.
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Offline Andreas

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Reply #21 on: February 08, 2005, 04:42:44 pm
That was my point; even if it exploded in athmosphere, it still levelled 2,150 square kilometres, and was apparently equivelant of 10 to 15 MT.
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Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #22 on: February 08, 2005, 04:47:23 pm
Interesting... What the site descripted about the fly by was pritty much exactly what I saw 3-4 weeks ago when I saw that meteor fly past my house... Maybe they're not telling us something. ?

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Reply #23 on: February 08, 2005, 04:50:07 pm
Yay Armageddon! Let's send up a bunch of Hollywood actors to pretend to save the world so that we won't panic as we all die.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #24 on: February 08, 2005, 05:40:56 pm
2029, huh...why buy plane tickets when you could probably buy space tickets? Less chance of getting hit that way. :p
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Reply #25 on: February 08, 2005, 06:26:08 pm
Somehow i don´t feel too confoprtable about the scientists predicted trajectory. They are calculating that an object travelling at tremendous velocity and subjected to various gravity forces would pass only 200km or less of the Earth, in 24 years time.
If they miscalculated by a single inch, that could mean either an impact or a complete miss...
Not that i mind, i will probably be dead by then, so who cares?!
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Reply #26 on: February 08, 2005, 06:34:34 pm
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Originally posted by Ai No Koriida

A 320 meter rock would be something to worry about, should it hit Earth (take Tunguska for an example). What if it would hit a densely populated area?


A 10 metre asteroid can be something to worry about if it is a metallic asteroid rather than a rocky one.

Read up on the late Gene Shoemaker's report on the Wabar impact site if your interested.

That said I think this asteroid is most likely rocky.
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Offline FireCrack

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Reply #27 on: February 09, 2005, 01:02:51 am
Good, last time i checked this 'roid had a 1 in 60 chance of impact.
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Janos

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Reply #28 on: February 09, 2005, 09:43:34 am
This will propably be updated soon with "whoops, it will pass us by 200 000 000 kilometers, sorry guyz do we get more funding? no? **** you too"
lol wtf
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