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rexrgisformidoni -> Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:28:58 AM)
By an asteroid saturday! NASA says it was within 100K of the atmosphere, and was about 2 football fields wide/across. KABOOM!!!

Kirata -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:36:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni NASA says it was within 100K of the atmosphere, and was about 2 football fields wide/across. KABOOM!!! 2009 DD45, estimated to be between 21 and 47 meters (68 and 152 feet) across, raced by at 1344 GMT on Monday, the Planetary Society and astronomers' blogs reported... The gap was just 72,000 kilometers (44,750 miles) K.

rexrgisformidoni -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:39:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata quote: ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni NASA says it was within 100K of the atmosphere, and was about 2 football fields wide/across. KABOOM!!! 2009 DD45, estimated to be between 21 and 47 meters (68 and 152 feet) across, raced by at 1344 GMT on Monday, the Planetary Society and astronomers' blogs reported... The gap was just 72,000 kilometers (44,750 miles) K. Damn CNN! they made it sound bigger! unless its a different one?

FullCircle -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:40:08 AM)
Ha Ha better luck next time God, you throw like a ...

kittinSol -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:41:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FullCircle Ha Ha better luck next time God. It's Obama that saved us all [&:] .

FullCircle -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:46:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's Obama that saved us all [&:] . Are you sure it wasn’t avoiding Gordon Brown like all the other people in the world?

kdsub -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:53:21 AM)
Nope it’s Rush Limbaugh…all the hot air has deflected the asteroid…although it is also the cause of global warming so we die one way or another.

BoiJen -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:54:13 AM)
Supposedly had it landed it would have been similar to the hit from in Siberia about a 100 years ago...which was interesting to watch the info on History Channel about it.

BlackPhx -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:57:11 AM)
Nah it was just a warning shot across our bow...Clean up this mess or else...No polluting the Galaxy... poenkitten (grabbing her towel)

kittinSol -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 9:59:06 AM)
I have another scientific theory. Palin. Too much moose stew. A misplaced box of GasEx... and BAM. In all seriousness though, I read about the near-miss this morning and it's some scary shit. Particularly frightening is that it was apparently kept shtum to prevent the general public from panicking (I hate being kept in the dark, unless it's inside a locked closet). But what happened to the 400 meter asteroid that was likely to hit us by 2029? I haven't heard about that bastard in a while.

kdsub -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 10:10:21 AM)
Just think our bones could be hanging from fish line 2 million years in the future while adolescent crabs get a lecture on the great asteroid of 2029 in the ancient history museum. Butch

rexrgisformidoni -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 10:10:48 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol I have another scientific theory. Palin. Too much moose stew. A misplaced box of GasEx... and BAM. In all seriousness though, I read about the near-miss this morning and it's some scary shit. Particularly frightening is that it was apparently kept shtum to prevent the general public from panicking (I hate being kept in the dark, unless it's inside a locked closet). But what happened to the 400 meter asteroid that was likely to hit us by 2029? I haven't heard about that bastard in a while. It does take a few days to do the math and look at the pics to make sure of what it really was. I'm sure something ginormous would have been breaking news, but a small one, not so much. And aphosis will swing by in 29, and again in 36. If the moon is in a certain spot in 29, then there is like a 1:1000 chance it will hit in 36. Fun times.

Steponme73 -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 11:13:07 AM)
Whoever is driving this bus is doing a damn good job...

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 11:33:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol I have another scientific theory. Palin. Too much moose stew. A misplaced box of GasEx... and BAM. In all seriousness though, I read about the near-miss this morning and it's some scary shit. Particularly frightening is that it was apparently kept shtum to prevent the general public from panicking (I hate being kept in the dark, unless it's inside a locked closet). But what happened to the 400 meter asteroid that was likely to hit us by 2029? I haven't heard about that bastard in a while. It does take a few days to do the math and look at the pics to make sure of what it really was. I'm sure something ginormous would have been breaking news, but a small one, not so much. And aphosis will swing by in 29, and again in 36. If the moon is in a certain spot in 29, then there is like a 1:1000 chance it will hit in 36. Fun times. I think that one that barely missed us a few years ago wasn't even detected until it had already passed, isn't that right? If I recall correctly, it had already swung past us and was on the way back out before somebody noticed it. But I may be mis-remembering it.

Anarrus -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 11:42:14 AM)
~fr~ Interesting article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/asteroids

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 5:53:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni By an asteroid saturday! NASA says it was within 100K of the atmosphere, and was about 2 football fields wide/across. KABOOM!!! That asteroid swung like a little girl. Pfffffft.

Vendaval -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 7:25:46 PM)
"That was the big KABOOM!" - Marvin the Martian [:D]

Marc2b -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 8:11:01 PM)
It was going to hit but then the technoviking glared at it and scared it away.

rexrgisformidoni -> RE: Almost got hit... (3/4/2009 8:38:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Marc2b It was going to hit but then the technoviking glared at it and scared it away. HAHAHAHAHAHA

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