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It streaked across the sky just 6500 kilometres - roughly the radius of the Earth - above the ground on 31 March, although details have only now emerged.
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Asteroid shaves past Earth's atmosphere
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 11:29 AM
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It streaked across the sky just 6500 kilometres - roughly the radius of the Earth - above the ground on 31 March, although details have only now emerged.
View: Full Article | Source: New Scientist
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they want the astroid strike to be a surprise !! 
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 07:51 PM
| QUOTE (drbeat @ Aug 24 2004, 12:45 PM) |
Why they always tell us after it passed ???  |
I don't think they want to panic everyone...
I find it ironic that an asteroid that could have hit a city and killed millions of people and caused major distruction has the initials F.U.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 08:20 PM
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| Previously orbiting the Sun once a year in an orbit that ranged as far inside the Earth's orbit as outside, 2004 FU162 now has a nine-month orbit centred closer to Venus than the Earth. |
Since we live on Earch we are obviously concerned with any asteroids that could hit us, but what about asteroids that could hit other planets closest to us? After reading the above quoted part of the article it really got me wandering. What would happen if one hit Mars or Venus or any of the other planets in our solar system? What kind of impact would such an event have on Earth? I think it's worth considereing.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 08:32 PM
Asteroids hit other planets and moons all the time. Don't think they affect earth at all. But eventually one will hit earth with catastrophic results. Sadly we will never know what hit us.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 08:35 PM
Close shave! I would not want to know if an asteroid was about to strike earth, I would rather carry on with my life and if one did I would not know about it anyway.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 08:52 PM
phew!! 
close one.. 
close one..
I'd like to see things from your point of view, but I just can't seem to get my head that far up my own a**.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 08:57 PM
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| Asteroids hit other planets and moons all the time. Don't think they affect earth at all. But eventually one will hit earth with catastrophic results. Sadly we will never know what hit us. |
Yes, but what if an asteroid hit Venus or Mars large enough to destroy the planet? Couldn't after effects of such a collison effect us? Possibly from a large chunk of said blown up planet hitting us and cause catastrophic results? Maybe I'm wrong...just a thought.
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Posted 24 August 2004 - 11:06 PM
Well I am just thankful. that gods 8 ball didn't make it in (this time). I do hope its an awful pool player ALL the time 
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Like he's drinkin’ 7-Up
I would rather drink 6 razor blades
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He can't understand, I say 2 tough
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 03:16 AM
| QUOTE (Me_Again @ Aug 25 2004, 12:06 AM) |
| Well I am just thankful. that gods 8 ball didn't make it in (this time). I do hope its an awful pool player ALL the time |
Ha ha ha ha ha ha........
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Why would a god who created us wish to just destroy us?!!?!....oh! wait! I can think of many reason!
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Posted 25 August 2004 - 11:50 PM
| QUOTE (Kaia Pythia @ Aug 24 2004, 09:20 PM) | ||
Since we live on Earch we are obviously concerned with any asteroids that could hit us, but what about asteroids that could hit other planets closest to us? After reading the above quoted part of the article it really got me wandering. What would happen if one hit Mars or Venus or any of the other planets in our solar system? What kind of impact would such an event have on Earth? I think it's worth considereing. |
21 Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in 1994 with extraordinary results. Take a look at some of the images on these pages, particularly the Hubble images:
http://nssdc.gsfc.na...tary/comet.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.na...met_images.html
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
And this from a news story from a few days ago:
"Jupiter's atmosphere still contains remnants of a comet impact from a decade ago, but scientists said last week they are puzzled by how two substances have spread into different locations.
The new study also discovered two previously undetected chemicals in Jupiter's air."
http://www.space.com...day_040823.html
Hubble image of the site of fragment G impact about 2 hours after impact.
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Posted 26 August 2004 - 12:10 AM
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| I find it ironic that an asteroid that could have hit a city and killed millions of people and caused major distruction has the initials F.U. |
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