― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
For soooo many reasons.
― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link
Nevermind the "that they a" error in the sentence... I like that it implies that some astronomers don't recognize that a false alarm could make them look ridiculous.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39897000/jpg/_39897925_chapman_203.jpg
― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
And 2004 AS1? It turned out to be bigger than anyone had thought - about 500m wide. It eventually passed the Earth at a distance of about 12 million km - 32 times the Earth-Moon distance, posing no danger to us whatsoever.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
Ha..... ha..... *cough*.... ha?
(That said, between the 1908 blast and Halley's Comet's really close approach in 1910, and the subsequent amount of freaked out people back then, I wonder if this fueled the current standard for astronomical research we have today)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
500m wide is still tiny, on the cosmic scheme of things. You'd be doing very well to see one of those before it hit you.
so how much damage would that do if it hit the world? My suspicion is substantial numbers of people killed, but not the end of life as we know it.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago) link
xpost
― hmm, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
Should I ask for my Xmas gifts now?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
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― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Due to its size, 2020 EF will most likely not cause an impact event, likely breaking if it enters Earth's atmosphere. It's big enough, however, to cause an explosion in the sky that could be dangerous, as illustrated by the 2013 meteor explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, which produced a flash 30 times brighter than the Sun and caused 180 cases of eye pain and 70 cases of temporary flash blindness.CNEOS said the asteroid is expected to approach Earth on March 18 at 11:15 p.m. EDT. During this time, the asteroid will fly past Earth from a distance of 0.04241 astronomical units or roughly 3.9 million miles from the planet’s center.
CNEOS said the asteroid is expected to approach Earth on March 18 at 11:15 p.m. EDT. During this time, the asteroid will fly past Earth from a distance of 0.04241 astronomical units or roughly 3.9 million miles from the planet’s center.
more good news, apparently we had an exploding meteor over the Bering Sea in late 2018 with an blast as powerful as "10 Hiroshimas" but nobody noticed until ages later after checking the data from a Japanese weather satellite.
― calzino, Monday, 16 March 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
turns out there's this youtube guy who believes that the GREAT DAYLIGHT FIREBALL of 1972 was two miles across and not just 10-45 ft as the authorities wd have us believe
he's basing it on triangulation and the famous linda baker video and i suspect him of at least two very basic errors but he's a bad narrator and it's hard to say
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
if he's right it was a near miss extinction-wise tho!
I noticed earlier that netflix have a not very good christmas treat in store - a movie about this scenario being imminent and nobody gaf ... sort of Meh..loncholia
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
i'm excited about it!
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
It might be ok. I was re-watching Meloncholia the other day and thinking it isn't a great movie but the last hour of it is utterly fantastic.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
well that's a rogue planet rather than asteroid but that's how Von Tryhard rolls!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
oh i meant i was excited abt the coming mass extinction i dont care abt the stupid movie
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
when it happens I don't want to be that character dismissing it as a fly pass and then going into the stables to blow my brains out when I realise the end is coming. I want to watch it happen!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Sorry guys... but we'll blow it out of the sky:
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/16/1046700417/nasa-launches-an-asteroid-hunter-named-lucy-with-a-beatles-connection
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link