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Giant Asteroid to hit the Earth on 11/9?

Goshin said:
Technically yes; pragmatically no. The asteroid is only 1300 feet across. It's gravitational field would be measured in 1/1000ths of one G. If you were standing on its surface, you might be in peril of achieving the asteroid's own escape velocity by jumping very hard. (IE fly off the surface and into space by jumping). I don't have the equations handy for calculating G from size/mass/density on hand or I'd tell you exactly.


Nope, no earthquakes or tsunami or anything like that, from a near-miss. It's way too small.


If it hit, it wouldn't be TEOTWAWKI. It would be pretty darn bad for somebody, but not a dino-killer or climate-wrecker, let alone a planet-killer.
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Plugged it into an escape velocity calculator, and you could reach escape velocity by sneezing, basically. Came out to like .02 inches per second, assuming average density of granite.

Now to calculate the impulse generated by a sneeze...
 
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GreenvilleGrows said:
What I found out was that if the distance between two objects decreases by a factor of 10, the gravitational influence exerted by each object upon the other would increase by a factor of 100. In the language of the physicist, the effect of gravitational force "varies inversely as the square of the distance". This principal is known as the inverse square law.

So, I guess, if the asteroid is 1/2 the distance from earth as the moon, then its mass would exert 4x's the force on the earth compared to the moon's mass (if they were the same size). If the moon is about 2,000 miles in diameter, and the asteroid is about 1/4 mile, then would the asteroid have 1/2000th of the gravitational effect upon the earth as the moon? I don't really know how the moon’s gravity affects the earth except as to tides and scenery. But, whatever it does, it will have a tiny bit more help.

Also, the moon is in constant orbit whereas the asteroid will be coming towards us and then going away. I don’t know if that kind of action in space has a correlating reaction or not.

If the ocean is 1.3 billion cubic kilometers, and the moon exerts enough force on it to move it, then would the asteroid exert enough force to move 650,000 cubic kilometers of water? What if, due to the nature of the difference of the approach, it might condense that same effect on less overall volume but with more potency? Instead of a redistribution, more of a big ripple in the water from a push.

How much water could your mama displace?

Please, if you read any of the above, know that I don't know anything about science or math - it's just a thought I had.
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If you know the inverse square law, then you know enough to realize that YU55 will have no effect on the earth.... Well, it will have SOME effect, but not enough to even notice.

And my mama displaces less water than your mama..... Nyah Nyah Nyah. :mrgreen:
 
What people don't realize is that this object is actually the 12th. Imam coming to Earth in fulfillment of prophecy. Now that a faithful follower of Allah has taken control of the great Satan, the way for his coming has been made clear.

And, you won't read that in the liberal press.
 
Don't think you have to get too worried about the asteroid unless the Rev Harold Camping makes a prediction about it and the end of the world.
 
Dittohead not! said:
What people don't realize is that this object is actually the 12th. Imam coming to Earth in fulfillment of prophecy. Now that a faithful follower of Allah has taken control of the great Satan, the way for his coming has been made clear.

And, you won't read that in the liberal press.
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Elvis Presley is the 12th Imam? Why didn't somebody tell me?
 
While this one will most likely miss us, not by much in cosmic terms, it should awaken us more to the fact that such a hit can occur. While the odds of us being hit by any given asteroid, comet or meteor is small, we do get hit. Luckily, not by a large one in quite awhile. But, given a long enough time period and our odds will eventually fall to zero and we will get hit by a large object moving pretty fast. The real question is not if, but when and will we be prepared for it? Will we have allocated enough research and infrastructure to stop it or deal with it? Will we have a workable plan to save enough of humanity for the human species to survive? What this should make us realize is that the cosmos is shooting at us, although, not very accurately, it will someday hit us.

The planet Earth, aka Terra, aka Sol III, is too small and fragile of a basket for humanity to keep all it's eggs in any longer than it has to. In order to increase the odds of mankind surviving into the distant future, we must start moving enough people to maintain genetic viability and our technological status off of this one planet as soon as it is feasible.

Besides the threat of asteroids, comets and other cosmic debris hitting us, we still live under the threat of some not so conscientious individuals causing a nuclear winter. For those who thinks this cannot happen, we are smarter than that, then consider that Iran and other Jihadist leaning nations are seeking nuclear weapons.

Another threat that people are not commonly aware of is the Yellowstone Volcano. For those not familiar with it, most of Yellowstone National Park sits inside of a Super or Mega-Volcano. It has the largest magma chamber known to mankind, it is also the most studied volcano. The last Mega-Volcano to erupt was in Indonesia, approximately 70 thousand years ago. It is believed to have cause an Ice Age. Yellowstone is larger. Yellowstone is also approximately 20 thousand years past it's normal eruption cycle and the magma chamber is filling. It's eruption is not an if, it is also a when and at what magnitude. We know of this threat, will we be prepared when it comes or will mankind become extinct because it again refuses to take steps necessary to ensure it's own survival?
 
Here are ten more ways in which the world might end.

So, what do we do about it? We humans live in only one habitat, as far as we know anyway, and this little dust mote orbiting one star of hundreds of billions of other stars in one minor galaxy, one of hundreds of billions once again.

If we were to find a unique species living only on one small island, we'd call it an endangered species. Is humanity an endangered species? What does it matter?

Just how important are human beings anyway?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Here are ten more ways in which the world might end.

So, what do we do about it? We humans live in only one habitat, as far as we know anyway, and this little dust mote orbiting one star of hundreds of billions of other stars in one minor galaxy, one of hundreds of billions once again.

If we were to find a unique species living only on one small island, we'd call it an endangered species. Is humanity an endangered species? What does it matter?

Just how important are human beings anyway?
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And here is yet another way you can die, if you are not really careful:

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danarhea said:
And here is yet another way you can die, if you are not really careful:

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Dead of peroxide poisoning?

The chemistry student took a drink, but he shall drink no more,
'cause what he thought was H20, was H2SO4.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Dead of peroxide poisoning?

The chemistry student took a drink, but he shall drink no more,
'cause what he thought was H20, was H2SO4.
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No, it was not sulphuric acid. It was hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). He said H2O2 (H2O too).
 
danarhea said:
And here is yet another way you can die, if you are not really careful:

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:rofl

That's hysterical. . . is the first guy guilty of murder because he knew he ordered some hydrogen peroxide instead of water?

Interesting dilemma of ethics we're in.
 
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