meh i will be like 40 on 2029 that's ok by me, i dont wanna be really old when the world ends

the danger isn't from one of these named asteroids but a rogue one coming in from an unseen trajectory.

we cant fully discount the possibility of an asteroid strike, we can't see them all.

Originally posted by yourmaker
the danger isn't from one of these named asteroids but a rogue one coming in from an unseen trajectory.

we cant fully discount the possibility of an asteroid strike, we can't see them all.

We can't fully discount a sea serpent, coming out of the toilet I'm mounted on, going up my colon and eating my
brain either.

But I'm not going to be afraid of going poop.

I'll only be 34 when this occurs.

We will never know the name of the asteroid that comes to strike the Earth. There will be a flash in the sky an instant before millions are killed in the blink of an eye. Those who do know of it's approach will be safe in their bunkers days in advance, and the rest will be left to suffer the aftermath. No official story, no help from FEMA, nothing. The world will be "normal" one day, and within weeks will resemble something out of a 'the Road' as ash rains from the sky, blotting out the sun. Only those beyond the blast radius will ever know it was meteor, the rest will learn through point of view exaggerations of the accounts of others.
The government will only report the ones we wish to study. We will never know the name of our doom.

However, do not fear the unknown. Our greatest threat is ourselves, not the random acts of tumbling rocks in space.


~FugitiveSoul

The next near miss of Earth by an asteroid takes place in 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WNS passes within 0.6 lunar distances

Disappointing, I thought it was the next disaster, it's just the appetizer for Apophis though.

Does anyone know the diameter of this Apophis?

ts diameter is approximately 270 meters (885 ft).[2] As of October 7, 2009, the probability of an April 13, 2036 impact is considered to be 1 in 250,000.

Here's YU55's diameter...

approximately 400 meters (1,300 feet) in diameter.

This latest asteroid was much larger than Apophis, and YU55 posed no "Extinction Level Event" to us, nor does Apophis. I think the demoralization of society is far more of a threat to us than these asteroids.

I read somewhere that Apophis goes through "the keyhole" on 2029, and then when it comes around again in 2036 is when it most likely would hit. If I remember, it was around 180m?
I'll have to look that up again, but I do remember that it was not all that big. It is something that would leave a crator maybe the size of the one in Arizona, not anything world ending.

I'm just going off of memory.

2029? 2036? This could be ONE VERY LONG THREAD!