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Near Earth Asteroid Now!!!

  • 15-02-2013 9:01am
    #1
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭


    It
    is now known that on February 15, 2013 at 08:25 Universal Time, the asteroid will pass at a distance of 0.0002276 AU (34,050 km; 21,160 mi) from the center-point of Earth,[3] with an uncertainty region of about 0.0000001 AU (15 km; 9.3 mi).[3] It will pass about 27,700 kilometers (17,200 mi) above Earth's surface,[2] closer than satellites in geosynchronous orbit.[2]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_DA14

    Just seen this on the google doodle first i've heard of it.


Comments

  • #2
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    100 people injured in Russia as meteors passed overhead last night causing windows to smash due to the sonic boom they created.


  • #3
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,867 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    OP, have you been hiding under a rock or something??

    This has been all over the internet for days at this stage


  • #4
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    ^^^ There's an internet now?


  • #5
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    It's being described as a 'near miss' which I always thought was a hit!!


  • #6
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    OP, have you been hiding under a rock or something??

    This has been all over the internet for days at this stage

    I'm going back hiding under the rock now until the space rock passes by.


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  • #7
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    OP, have you been hiding under a rock or something??

    Maybe the rock was actually an asteroid, so from the OPs view, wouldnt have realised it was an asteroid, and just thought it was a rock


  • #8
    Panrich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,866 ✭✭✭Panrich


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    It's being described as a 'near miss' which I always thought was a hit!!

    Sanitised way of saying 'near hit' from the aviation industry. Sounds much nicer and less threatening.


  • #9
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    Some really good shots here, very Hollywood.


  • #10
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Mena wrote: »
    Some really good shots here, very Hollywood.

    All I noticed was that Russians have a sh*te taste in music.


  • #11
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I am locking this because I am part of the illuminati conspiracy that seeks to profit from nobody knowing about this.

    I type this from a bunker 20 miles under the South Pole. From here we will rise after the meteor shower to form the 4th Reich.

    There will be no repeat of Stalingrad this time.


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