2012 meteor supposed to destroy earth,when would we see it?, page 5
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reply posted on 28-8-2008 @ 04:22 PM by logicize
Asteroid 2005 YU55 - Coming Soon to a Planet Near You

Probably this one is it. It's coming 2010 and 2011 and it's going to be closer than Apophis will be in 2036.

[edit on 28-8-2008 by logicize]



reply posted on 8-9-2008 @ 08:54 AM by Anonymous ATS




reply posted on 9-9-2008 @ 04:00 AM by mdiinican
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It was kind of a pathetic asteroid, though. It would have been a huge disaster if it'd landed right on a city, but otherwise, it wouldn't have done much. Wasn't even big enough to cause any tsunami of remarkable size. A fair sized earthquake in a developing nation would be far more disastrous than TU-24 impacting would be, unless it landed smack on a major metropolitan area.


EDIT: and 2005 YU55 is only half as big as that, for about 1/8th the destructive potential, about 1.2 megatons worth of kinetic energy.

[edit on 9-9-2008 by mdiinican]


reply posted on 7-10-2008 @ 09:43 AM by Anonymous ATS
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I do not believe they would tell us because it would cause panic and chaos but if an astroid a little biggert than austrailia hit in the ocean it could possobly destroy our plannet or make life on liveable but also if one about the size of canada hit land or sea it would definatly be the end for us



reply posted on 27-10-2008 @ 01:30 AM by mdiinican
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
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I do not believe they would tell us because it would cause panic and chaos but if an astroid a little biggert than austrailia hit in the ocean it could possobly destroy our plannet or make life on liveable but also if one about the size of canada hit land or sea it would definatly be the end for us


The thing is, one of these would be easy to see. It's quite plausible to miss a piddling little thing like a sub 200 meter asteroid floating around in space until it'd be too late to stop it, but to miss something close to the size of Pluto (for the australia sized asteroid. the canada-sized one would be much larger.)? It'd have to be in the far reaches of the oort cloud, and would take many decades to get here, were it on a crazy elliptical orbit.

in other words: it'd have to be much smaller than that if it's supposed to come in 2012, but still quite large if it is supposed to cause any major change. Odds are, whatever is supposed to happen in 2012 isn't an impactor scenario. For example, 10 Hygiea is smaller than Australia, and it is very hard to see due to it's carbonaceous makeup that makes it very dull and black. It was found over a hundred and fifty years ago.
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