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"Space rocks"
Posted by cahaya on 02-11-13 at 08:13 PM
LAST EDITED ON 02-11-13 AT 08:16 PM (EST)

... fly around the solar system and some of them come within close proximity to Earth.

Ball!

The next strike is somewhere around the next corner.

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"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by foonermints on 02-11-13 at 08:53 PM
I'm still waiting for another Tanguska Black Hole.

Or fixing my lawn sprinklers by Spring. Whichever comes first.

If it wasn't such a wimpy asteroid, this could be another "Whammy Opportunity", but don't ask me. Ask a Tyrannosaur.

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by cahaya on 02-11-13 at 09:45 PM
In the total cosmic perspective of things, an asteroid smacking into a planet and erasing most of its living species (thereby creating a vacuum for new species) has its precedence.


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Humans are possibly even less equipped than the dinosaurs to deal with such a catastrophe. No more Big Macs.

"Does It?"
Posted by foonermints on 02-11-13 at 11:21 PM
And just how would you know this except for your book-reading? Huh.. HUH?!

OH! maybe some research. Was that in the Yucatan? Nice place, that.. I remember a girl..


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"RE: Does It?"
Posted by cahaya on 02-12-13 at 00:57 AM
Books schmooks! Check out all of those impact craters on the biggest rock in our neighborhood, the moon.


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Steer-rike!

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by dabo on 02-11-13 at 10:02 PM

asteroid     date(UT)  miss distance(LD)  size
2013 CY32    Feb 5     0.3 LD             10 m 
1999 HA2     Feb 5     58 LD              1.3 km 
2013 BA74    Feb 6     4.5 LD             35 m 
2013 BS45    Feb 12    4.9 LD             29 m 
3752 Camillo Feb 12    57.5 LD            3.4 km 
2013 BV15    Feb 13    3.7 LD             60 m 
1999 YK5     Feb 15    49.1 LD            2.1 km 
2012 DA14    Feb 15    0.09 LD            65 m 
2013 CE82    Feb 17    4.6 LD             44 m 
2009 AV      Feb 25    59.7 LD            1.0 km 
 LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU.

Good month for near misses.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.

On February 12, 2013 there were 1379 potentially hazardous asteroids.

"!"
Posted by moonbaby on 02-12-13 at 10:57 AM
Adding it to the list. I'll never sleep again!
"RE: !"
Posted by kingfish on 02-12-13 at 11:12 AM
I had no idea there had been so many large ones lately.

OK, now it's time to get serious about shooting them down.




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"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by Estee on 02-12-13 at 11:26 AM
I'll prepare Bruce Willis for launch.

Optionally, we can tell Liam Neeson that asteroid is going to do nasty things to his screen daughter.

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by cahaya on 02-12-13 at 01:29 PM
LAST EDITED ON 02-12-13 AT 01:33 PM (EST)

Make no mistake about it, there are astrophysics scientists who have devoted their entire academic careers and lives to this very subject, writing books on it.

We're probably good for a few centuries at least, barring any unexpected and still yet unobserved perturbations in solar system dynamics.


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The movies are good in making us aware of the potential danger and its possibilities, but they are poor in dramatizing the actual response of an impending event. Rather than blowing up an asteroid, which may exacerbate the situation, a gentle nudge well in advance is really all it takes to make a potential impact a wild but harmless fly-by. The current rock is going to have its solar system trajectory majorly altered by it's near Earth fly-by.

"No."
Posted by foonermints on 02-13-13 at 00:18 AM
I want to go out with a Bang.

Then, In a million years, I will be reborn as The Schwanz The Grand Nagus. Or Batman. I'll settle for Batman.

"RE: No."
Posted by Molaholic on 02-15-13 at 01:07 PM
I want to go out with a Bang.

OK, I'll hoist a toast in your honor.

"Yes!"
Posted by foonermints on 02-15-13 at 11:22 PM
Is it Mimosa Sunday yet?

"Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by Snidget on 02-15-13 at 07:51 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Injured like 100 people.

"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by moonbaby on 02-15-13 at 10:39 AM
Let the sky fall, when it crumbles ... Let the sky fall, when it crumbles ... At sky fall...
"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by cahaya on 02-15-13 at 05:54 PM
This one hit just on the inside corner of the plate and there are reportedly meteorite fragments on the ground.

Steer-ike!

"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by cahaya on 02-15-13 at 10:56 AM
Now they're saying 725 injured across a wide area. Apparently, most of the injuries are due to flying glass as a result of the sound energy of the sonic boom shattering windows.
"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by mrc on 02-15-13 at 11:19 AM
The videos are like something from a Michael Bay movie.

http://gawker.com/5984470/apparent-meteorite-crash-in-russia-causes-giant-explosions-forces-evacuation-of-nearby-offices-and-schools

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"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by dabo on 02-15-13 at 04:37 PM
Shame about all the damage and injuries, thankfully it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Here's a video from 1972 with the nearest possible of near misses.

http://videosift.com/video/The-Tetons-Meteor-of-1972-a-near-miss

"RE: Meteor Attacks Russia"
Posted by Estee on 02-16-13 at 08:47 AM
I'm just waiting to see who claims credit first: North Korea, the Taliban, or Focus On The Family.
"First Tunguska, now this"
Posted by kidflash212 on 02-16-13 at 10:11 AM
Somebody up there doesn't like Russia



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"Now San Francisco"
Posted by cahaya on 02-16-13 at 05:37 PM

Not quite as earth and window shattering as the one in Russia, but this fast fireball hits the outside corner of the plate in lighting up the sky in the Bay area.

Steer-ike two!

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by cahaya on 03-08-13 at 08:07 PM
There's one more whizzing by, 2013 ET. They first found it on my birthday, less than a week ago. Scary, they didn't see it until it was almost upon us.

Asteroid 2013 ET is about 210 feet by 460 feet (64 meters by 140 m) in size, with some astronomers comparing its width to a football field. Its close approach to Earth comes just days after another space rock, the 33-foot (10 meters) asteroid 2013 EC, buzzed the Earth on Monday at a range just inside the moon's orbit.

Then we've got one of our first naked-eye visible comets in a while, Pan-STARRS (aka C/2011 L4).


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Now that it's getting warmer, it's time to dust off the clock-driven Meade scope in the garage and take a peek.

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by cahaya on 03-09-13 at 07:15 PM
Catch it while you can!

If you have a clear view of the western horizon about 15 minutes after twilight, you should be able to see the comet without using binoculars or a telescope. It will look like a bright point of light with its tail pointing nearly straight up from the horizon, according to the laboratory.

"RE: Space rocks"
Posted by kingfish on 03-12-13 at 08:41 AM
LAST EDITED ON 03-12-13 AT 11:57 AM (EST)

There do seem to more and more instances where we notice a killer comet/astroid just days before it crosses earth orbit.


http://news.yahoo.com/earth-gets-rush-weekend-asteroid-visitors-001945056.html

But let's let Obama cut NASA's budget, one probably won't hit us in our life time. We're probably going to be OK.