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It's only 400 metres long! It's not gonna do much harm...
It's only rated 2 on the Torino scale...
Search google for Torino scale and I'm sure you'll find something on the different measurements of the scale(hopefully)...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Actuually, Its Torino scale rating is 4. That's greater than any other recorded asteroid. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Ok...than it IS something to worry about...I was following Intelliot's initial post..
Still 15 million kilometres away and gradually closing in O_o...
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| Stuff2Do wrote: | | if this is that big, it could wipe the world out, it will blast stuff up in the air, and do all kinds a crap, we will just send (anyone seen armeggedon the movie) someone like the a suicide bomber thats not afraid to blow himself up, and he can go up there with 30 freinds |
for some strange reason i cant see 31 people going up into space with bombs straped to their chest and blowing themselves up when they come into contact with an asteroid.
Would you go up there and kill yourself when the asteroid might not hit the earth and you could stay alive???
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I'm sure we will have the technology to launch a projectile towards it or detonate it remotely, if it even becomes such a great risk that that is necessary. |
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I don't think we have to be worried about that just yet. A lot can happen between now and 2029. Thats more than 20 years away. It might change it's course a little in the next 25 years and not be a threat anymore. And if it would happen, I think the experts probably will have some sort of solution by then. Otherwise there will be enough time to panic in the years 2028 and 2029.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Update: December 27, astronomers were able to refine the asteroid's orbit sufficiently to determine that 2004 MN4 will miss the Earth in 2029, albeit only by a few tens of thousands of miles.
Read the article on my blog. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| what a relief!! |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| randy wrote: | Update: December 27, astronomers were able to refine the asteroid's orbit sufficiently to determine that 2004 MN4 will miss the Earth in 2029, albeit only by a few tens of thousands of miles.
Read the article on my blog. |
Thanks for the update, randy. Good thing it's going to miss us! 
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Horray were all saved.
And to think I was just in the garden planning on where I could built an underground shellter to save me from it.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: |
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We could've used Jeramy's wrestling skills to pull a "choke-slam" on the meteor  ...
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