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Originally posted by cluckerspud
Any takers on the next doom and gloom space rock?
It seems the life cycle of these death bringers is shortened exponentially as we go on.
I'm just going to wait for Richard Hoaxland to install fear, I guess.
Cheers.
But the 1,300-foot-wide object, which will be just 201,700 miles away from Earth, offers a rare scientific opportunity. "Asteroids have passed this close or even closer in the past, but astronomers have not had as much advance notice," noted Bing Quock, assistant director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, in an email to Yahoo! News.
Quock added that the early alert, coupled with the asteroid's proximity to Earth, will allow NASA to map the surface of this particular asteroid "to quite a spectacular resolution that's usually available only by sending spacecraft up close to the object." The last time an asteroid flew this close to Earth was in 1976. The next time won't be until 2028.
Originally posted by Devestator
I'm curious too, don't get me wrong i'd love to see it hit earth but i know it won't
Originally posted by theclutch
Slooh SpaceCamera
Now we can all watch it come in and wipe us out in real time!
This site is going to be showing us YU55 live in about 20 minutes from NOW!
Go!
I wish they did this for every near death thingamabob!
Originally posted by Shuye
Don't we have enough of these threads already? At least people are trying to think different and do some research, and it all comes for a cry for change. It's not easy to make an hypothesis and predict an outcome, but it sure is easy to falsify it, especially after the prediction turned out to be wrong.
With that said, there is no honor in bashing a theory and to say 'I told you so' afterward. Sorry mate, but that's my opinion.
Originally posted by Devestator
reply to post by StarPeace
Yeh this world needs to end and a new world needs to be born