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Double near-miss as two asteroids pass Earth


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Over the last couple of days two large recently discovered asteroids have passed close to our planet.

On Wednesday a 100ft space rock called 2014 DX110 passed us by within the orbit of the moon at a distance of just 217,000 miles. Astronomers had been able to see it coming but with little in the way of warning as it was only discovered on February 28th.

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Aliens are hurling asteroids at us in targeted strikes. They missed. They might hit us after a few more tries.

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How much longer until our luck runs out?

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We should actually re-think our ability to defend ourselfs against these,Looks like we really dont have a clue to whats coming our way in the dark ? Maybe the Big ones but a 300 foot rock would tend to ruin ones day If it hit a city !

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It's only a matter of time.I doubt they will tell us except amatuer astronomers, if they catch it?

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We should actually re-think our ability to defend ourselves against these,Looks like we really dont have a clue to whats coming our way in the dark ? Maybe the Big ones but a 300 foot rock would tend to ruin ones day If it hit a city !

You're right about the lack of defence.... :w00t: generally, they track these NEO's (Near Earth Object....or Orbit?) very well, but no time to react to these anyway.

Ruin your day in the country too! :cry: What was recent Russian event size???

Almost doesn't count.......a hit or a miss. :P

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Tunguska's event was probably Tesla's test of his weapon.Look it up.

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About 20 meters in diameter according to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia....lyabinsk_meteor The biggest since the Tunguska event in 1908.

Right on, thanks for link. :tu:

Maybe some are too small to detect w/ current tech.

It's a question of when it will happen again, not if....but I hope not. :whistle:

From WIKI..

The visible phenomenon due to the passage of an asteroid or meteoroid through the atmosphere is called a meteor, If the object reaches the ground, then it is called a meteorite

During the Chelyabinsk meteoroid's traversal, there was a bright object trailing smoke, then an air burst (explosion) that caused a powerful shock wave which caused of the damage to thousands of buildings in Chelyabinsk. The fragments entered without the emission of light and created a strewn field of numerous meteorites on the snow-covered ground.

The United States space agency NASA estimated the diameter at about 17–20 m and has revised the mass several times from an initial 7,700 tonnes (7,600 long tons; 8,500 short tons),until reaching a final estimate of 10,000 tonnes, (11,000 short tons, greater than the total weight of the Eiffel Tower)..

The air burst and shock wave registered on seismographs at magnitude 2.7On 1 March 2013 NASA published a detailed synopsis of the event, stating that at peak brightness (at 09:20:33 local time), the meteor was 23.3 km (14.5 miles, 76,000 feet) high, located at 54.8°N, 61.1°E.

At that time it was travelling at about 18.6 km/s (11.6 mi/s), (about 67,000 km/h, or about 41,750 mph) —almost 60 times the speed of sound.

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God is still protecting us. Has always done it...that is until one day when one will hit;

Was already described in the books of Revelations.

http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16182

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I hate saying this but its going to happen.we are going to get hit

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It's only a matter of time.I doubt they will tell us except amatuer astronomers, if they catch it?

If amateurs detect an incoming rock of dangerous proportions I find it hard to believe that NASA or other national space agencies would say nothing.

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I hate saying this but its going to happen.we are going to get hit

The Earth was likely hit by a few rocks today, and will be hit by more tomorrow and the day after.

As for dangerous ones, why not support the work of the B612 Foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B612_Foundation Let's go and find the dangerous rocks and work out what we can do about them.

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Earth has survived five mass extinction events, a number of ice ages and will likely survive a an asteroid collision. Humanity will survive if it colonizes other worlds.

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Lets hope that asteroid named after Philip Klass doesn't get knocked out of it's orbit and head for earth. The whole planet will get Debunked. :w00t::lol:

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It really is a matter of 'when'. Even if we have some sort of defense plan in place how effective can it be with only a few days notice? We don't need a mile wide asteroid to cause serious havock. A couple hundred meters would make a heck of a mess. Google's break-room coffee budget was probably larger last year than the amount of resources we dedicate to finding these.

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