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Originally posted by BlackGuardXIII
Recently, an asteroid was sighted that came closer to us than the moon. If I recall it was large enough to do some serious damage. The scary part is that they spotted it two weeks after it passed by... and then they lost it again. A meteorite 5 miles across would cause extinctions, even if it hit in the most favourable location, like the south pacific. Imagine, when it hit the ocean floor, half of it would still be above water.
Originally posted by defcon5
Don’t sweat it too much you only have a 1 in 6000 chance of dying from an asteroid….
Originally posted by goose
Now reading things like this makes you wonder why we have not got more people studying this. We know they have hit us in the past we get little one all the times and we know we have been hit by some big ones in the past, we have found the craters to prove it but yet they, our governments, ignore it like it will not happen.
Originally posted by davenman
This comet is in the process of breaking up. The main portion of the comet is expect to come no closer than 15 million miles, but some of the fragments are expected to pass within 5 million miles. That is not what we would consider a close call in astronomical terms, but
Originally posted by davenman
You are obviously interested in prophecy. In the instance of this comet, consider the possibility of the Sun appearins as through black sackcloth(burlap) as this comet is breaking up and will pass between the Earth and Sun in May of 2022. All of those broken pieces of the comet peppered across millions of miles of space blocking out enough sunlight to give the appearance of black sackcloth. The moon would turn blood red because of the light of the Sun being refracted through the Ice debris of the comet.
Read Revelation Chapter 6 thru 8 and see what you think.
Originally posted by davenman
The first is one that someone else mentioned that goes by the name of 99942 Apophis or 2004 MN4. You can find a very good write-up about it at wikipedia en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by Freedom_for_sum
Let's see; I'll be 64 years old. Might as well party hardy until then cuz it doesn't look good.
Originally posted by davenman All of those broken pieces of the comet peppered across millions of miles of space blocking out enough sunlight to give the appearance of black sackcloth. The moon would turn blood red because of the light of the Sun being refracted through the Ice debris of the comet.
Originally posted by davenman
Freedom,
The asteroid that you are pointing out is a reasonably small one...about 20-30 meters diameter from my understanding. The worst that something that size would do would be something like the crater in Arizona with total annihilation about 5 miles from impact and almost no damage 100 miles from impact.
Originally posted by davenman
That object in particular has not been tracked well enough to know whether it will pass 5 million miles or 2500 miles from earth. In spacial terms that's nearly a shot in the dark. I'm sure they'll be watching for it the next time it passes within radar range.
Originally posted by davenman
The speed of an object has much to do with its' survival to impact. The faster an object is going, the more likely it will break up. Slower objects stand a better chance of making impact with Earth. This object would be traveling fairly fast in relation to Earth and wouldn't hold together well upon entry to Earth's atmosphere unless it is very solid. Most asteroids are not believed to be very solid.
I am no expert on the subject matter; but what I do know is that NASA has developed this website to present those NEO's they deem to be a potential hazard I have no idea what this means.
The error, by their admission, is significant enough that the asteroids in question could be further away from Earth (not by 5 million miles though) or they could score a direct hit; they don't know for certain. What they do know is that these NEO's present a greater risk for collision that other NEO's. And they don't use radar to determine this. They use visual telescopes.