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'Damn close' asteroid due to miss hitting us this time ... but only just.

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    #32
    daheff
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    kona wrote: »
    Hopefully hits north korea and sorts that problem out.

    Unless they think its the US attacking them and then go full nuclear apesh*t




    Maybe Kim can show us all how good his nukes are by sending one into orbit to blow this up???


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    #33
    pedigree 6
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    I wonder what the asteroid is made from?

    A dense hard rock or a soft porous burny up type.

    Also I wonder if it misses us this time based on the change in trajectory of orbit since the last fly by. Will it hit us next time?

    Hmmm questions questions. :):p


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    #34
    Call Me Jimmy
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    I am sick and tired of all these asteroids would they ever just fcuk off


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    #35
    Shpudnik
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    Iseedeadpixels wrote: »
    Starts thread about a asteroid near miss mentions Trump and N.Korea, christ I can't get away from it!

    Trump is the new Hitler in Godwins law.


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    #36
    cavemeister
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    I honestly think that if an astroid big enough to change mankind's way of life forever was on a collision course with earth, our governments would not tell us. What would be the point? All it would do is cause mass panic in our final days / weeks. Looting, rioting - A full breakdown in society - And there would be no police, they'd be with their families.

    I'd prefer to go out in blissful ignorance


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    #37
    KungPao
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    Phew!

    Let's go burn down the observatory so this will never again.


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    #38
    CruelCoin
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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    To be fair it caused $33 million in damage, not exactly just some broken windows.

    But if it hit the ground it would be worse.

    Not really. There is a reason why the modern nukes are designed to air burst.


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    #39
    Permabear
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    #40
    kylith
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I'm more of a zombie apocalypse man myself. There's no craic in being clobbered by a giant space rock.
    Chin up, it could carry a space plague that'd turn 50% of survivors into zombies!


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    #41
    mzungu
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.
    No idea, but I sure hope Aerosmith have another song in the bag for the occasion.


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    #42
    Kivaro
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    In hospital for a hip replacement.


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    #43
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    The good news is that they're usually worth more than 24ct gold, per gm, and you could heat up some marshmallows from it for a few weeks.


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    #44
    Capt'n Midnight
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    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    I wonder what the asteroid is made from?

    A dense hard rock or a soft porous burny up type.

    Also I wonder if it misses us this time based on the change in trajectory of orbit since the last fly by. Will it hit us next time?

    Hmmm questions questions. :):p
    Anything going 3Km/s will have the same energy as an equivalent weight of TNT

    This asteroid is travelling at 14Km/s so matter (sic) what it's made of it'll have the energy of 21 times it's mass of high explosive.


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    #45
    B.A._Baracus
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    As said in the article test what we could do as it passes by.

    Why not blow it out of space?


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    #46
    Capt'n Midnight
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    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    As said in the article test what we could do as it passes by.

    Why not blow it out of space?
    And risk turning one dangerous falling object into many?


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    #47
    buried
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    Send a load of painters up to it. Paint it some colour that the Sun's rays could deflect the sneaky bastard away from us.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #48
    Akrasia
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    cavemeister wrote: »
    I honestly think that if an astroid big enough to change mankind's way of life forever was on a collision course with earth, our governments would not tell us. What would be the point? All it would do is cause mass panic in our final days / weeks. Looting, rioting - A full breakdown in society - And there would be no police, they'd be with their families.

    I'd prefer to go out in blissful ignorance
    Governments can't stop dudes with telescopes though. Head over to the astronomy forum. They'd know about this way before any government official got the briefing on what an asteroid actually is.


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    #49
    Akrasia
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    buried wrote: »
    Send a load of painters up to it. Paint it some colour that the Sun's rays could deflect the sneaky bastard away from us.

    Yeah, f*ck these guys

    3a7601bd62111b06f333c68b67be24c9.jpg


    Send these guys!

    1264743.jpg


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    #50
    bazza1
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    Time for a quick fap before Armageddon?


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    #51
    Autochange
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    kona wrote: »
    Hopefully hits north korea and sorts that problem out.

    Pentagon would be better


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    #52
    Sand
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    And risk turning one dangerous falling object into many?

    The earth gets hit by many falling objects every day, and the asteroid is not on target for the earth in any case. It's not a terrible idea to test the capacity to hit it, even with a rocket with no payload.

    We wouldn't get too many do-overs for an asteroid which was on target.


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    #53
    exaisle
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    Preparation H might work....no..wait...thats for haemarroids... sh1te!


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    #54
    B.A._Baracus
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    And risk turning one dangerous falling object into many?

    Nuke the crap outta it :pac:


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    #55
    exaisle
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    Shpudnik wrote: »
    LordSutch wrote: »
    However, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, in Chile, has now located the rock and determined its distance".

    Very unpredictable orbit by the sound of it.

    There is something refreshing in a world of science terms that they would come up with something like this.

    It's very precise actually.....perched up there between the Fairly Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope. Not in the same league as the Humungously Large Telescope or the Unbelievably Large Telescope though...


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    #56
    B.A._Baracus
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    Sand wrote: »
    The earth gets hit by many falling objects every day, and the asteroid is not on target for the earth in any case. It's not a terrible idea to test the capacity to hit it, even with a rocket with no payload.

    We wouldn't get too many do-overs for an asteroid which was on target.

    Agree
    Actually what measures do governments have to stop asteroids? Must be something floating about. Even if it's only theory.


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    #57
    Sand
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    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Agree
    Actually what measures do governments have to stop asteroids? Must be something floating about. Even if it's only theory.

    I wouldn't assume tbh. The maximum range of an ICBM is about 11,500 km. So actually, the Earth doesn't actually have the capacity to even hit this 'near miss' asteroid with its nukes as its out of range. And sending up nukes (perhaps multiple nukes- its the only way to be sure) at that sort of range to the earth has to lead to fallout. As for capacity, NASA is probably the best funded space program and it is so underfunded that since the retirement of the shuttle (without replacement) it relies on Russia to get its astronauts to the ISS. If an asteroid is spotted with say a 2-3 month lead time, I wouldn't expect decades of neglect to suddenly be recovered.


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    #58
    Avatar MIA
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    It's okay, this is being managed...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_(TV_series)

    Current TV series nearing S1 end.


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    #59
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,366 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Agree
    Actually what measures do governments have to stop asteroids? Must be something floating about. Even if it's only theory.
    It's pretty easy to stop one from hitting us if we find when it's far away. All we need to do is nudge it slightly and it will miss us.
    We could intercept it with a probe and attach a thruster to it with a harpoon and just change it's velocity slightly in any direction and it would miss us.
    the closer it is, the more of a course adjustment it would take for it to miss us. So if we found an asteroid that was only a few months away, there's probably nothing we could do.


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    #60
    Akrasia
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    Sand wrote: »
    I wouldn't assume tbh. The maximum range of an ICBM is about 11,500 km. So actually, the Earth doesn't actually have the capacity to even hit this 'near miss' asteroid with its nukes as its out of range. And sending up nukes (perhaps multiple nukes- its the only way to be sure) at that sort of range to the earth has to lead to fallout. As for capacity, NASA is probably the best funded space program and it is so underfunded that since the retirement of the shuttle (without replacement) it relies on Russia to get its astronauts to the ISS. If an asteroid is spotted with say a 2-3 month lead time, I wouldn't expect decades of neglect to suddenly be recovered.

    Why use an Icbm to target something a hundred thousand kilometers away, use a rocket and just put a nuke as it's payload (if that's what you want to do)


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    #61
    Avatar MIA
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    Why use an Icbm to target something a hundred thousand kilometers away, use a rocket and just put a nuke as it's payload (if that's what you want to do)

    As long as you don't release ZOD I don't care.


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