On Sunday afternoon -- at 2:15 pm Eastern time, to be exact -- a small asteroid will whiz by the Earth

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Thanks, Joe ... I can't believe how little there is in the news about this. It's an asteroid about 60 feet in diameter, and it's going to pass us only 25,000 miles away. (No possibility at all of an impact, they say ... what surprises me most is that this thing was first noticed only about a week ago!). Pretty interesting ...

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Joe Mobley

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

what surprises me most is that this thing was first noticed only about a week ago!). Pretty interesting ...

Yea, that does make you think a bit... "What could they be missing?"

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HeySal

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Mobley

Yea, that does make you think a bit... "What could they be missing?"

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Actually - I think the present question is "what could be missing us?"

I will be out on top of a small mountain tomorrow. Maybe it would be a good day for me to explore the canyon instead?

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Kay King

10 years ago

Are we going to have a party so we can wave at it as it flies by? I like parties.

I'm not sure it would do any good to know about it sooner - it's not like the earth can duck or weave. We'd just worry more...but might be good for Prepper sales.

Sal - mountain is fine. It'll miss you, probably.

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HeySal

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Are we going to have a party so we can wave at it as it flies by? I like parties.

I'm not sure it would do any good to know about it sooner - it's not like the earth can duck or weave. We'd just worry more...but might be good for Prepper sales.

Sal - mountain is fine. It'll miss you, probably.

Lol. Yeah, thanks. That makes me feel better

That close and we aren't going to even be able to see it. Nuts. Oh well - we'll know it's there and it's a Sunday. Party hardy.

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Claude Whitacre 10 years ago

Well, it happened. The Earth moved for me.
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Cali16 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

...what surprises me most is that this thing was first noticed only about a week ago!)

That surprised me as well. I mean, we have a rover on Mars but can't detect the presence of an asteroid (that, if it hit the earth, could do a fair amount of damage) until it's just a week away from passing by the earth...?? That's disturbing. Then again, our priorities as a species have always been a bit off.
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Dutch Trader

10 years ago

Haven't heard anything about it!! What would have been the impact if it would have hit!!!!!!

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Claude Whitacre 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dutch Trader

Haven't heard anything about it!! What would have been the impact if it would have hit!!!!!!

60 feet? Huge crater. It wouldn't cause extinctions. In fact, chances are excellent that it would have burned up or exploded in the atmosphere.
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Joe Mobley 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dutch Trader

Haven't heard anything about it!! What would have been the impact if it would have hit!!!!!!

Something like this,

http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...nded-like.html

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HeySal

10 years ago

We had one like that come whizzing over our town when I was around 12. It was early evening and it lit the sky like day for a few minutes - landed in a field outside of town where nobody was hurt...........but it sure scared the crap out of us real well.

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Kurt

10 years ago

Everyone should come up to high altitude and sit outside and stare at the sky for a few hours on a clear night at least once in their life...It's really amazing what you can see.

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Everyone should come up to high altitude and sit outside and stare at the sky for a few hours on a clear night at least once in their life...It's really amazing what you can see.

I remember, as a kid, camping out in the back yard, and just laying there, looking at the night sky. Trying to figure out what shooting stars actually were...trying to think of a way to determine how far away the stars were.

But I knew so little then about the makeup of the galaxy...and other galaxies. So my imagination ran wild. Now that I have a basic knowledge of what's out there....it's even more amazing.

I still remember the first time I looked through a cheap telescope (I earned selling boxes of seeds), and saw Mars (Maybe it was Venus) and Jupiter. I remember feeling Awe.

I think I want to do that again.

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I remember, as a kid, camping out in the back yard, and just laying there, looking at the night sky. Trying to figure out what shooting stars actually were...trying to think of a way to determine how far away the stars were.

But I knew so little then about the makeup of the galaxy...and other galaxies. So my imagination ran wild. Now that I have a basic knowledge of what's out there....it's even more amazing.

I still remember the first time I looked through a cheap telescope (I earned selling boxes of seeds), and saw Mars (Maybe it was Venus) and Jupiter. I remember feeling Awe.

I think I want to do that again.

I was crazed for science when I was a kid and Astronomy was one that just really cranked me. I didn't have a telescope, but when I got into college and took astronomy, I got a prof that was extremely intellegent - and extremely whacked. We loved him. His last name was Bendell and we called him Oliver Wendell Bendell, but I don't remember why. He had a shed with a 2 acre long extension chord. We'd take the school telescope, which was about 8 ft tall and about a foot wide (lens). He'd run it back to the back forty (he lived in bumfukarobia so no city lights) on a golf cart. and our class would party, bbq, etc and he'd hook it up and program it so it'd follow events automatically turning as calibrated to follow the rotation.

Some of the best memories of my life.

Mary's violet eyes make Jim sit up nights planning....oh......well sit up nights, maybe not so much planning, depending on whose view of it, I guess.

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I was crazed for science when I was a kid and Astronomy was one that just really cranked me. I didn't have a telescope, but when I got into college and took astronomy, I got a prof that was extremely intellegent - and extremely whacked. We loved him. His last name was Bendell and we called him Oliver Wendell Bendell, but I don't remember why. He had a shed with a 2 acre long extension chord. We'd take the school telescope, which was about 8 ft tall and about a foot wide (lens). He'd run it back to the back forty (he lived in bumfukarobia so no city lights) on a golf cart. and our class would party, bbq, etc and he'd hook it up and program it so it'd follow events automatically turning as calibrated to follow the rotation.

Some of the best memories of my life.

Mary's violet eyes make Jim sit up nights planning....oh......well sit up nights, maybe not so much planning, depending on whose view of it, I guess.

I remember one night, aggravating my friend, by continually trying to figure out why Jupiter looked sooo much bigger with a telescope...but the stars didn't. The answer is obvious now, but back then it kept me awake for hours.

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Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I still remember the first time I looked through a cheap telescope (I earned selling boxes of seeds),

Got mine from selling 'Cloverine Black Salve.' Who remembers, that? lol

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whateverpedia

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Everyone should come up to high altitude and sit outside and stare at the sky for a few hours on a clear night at least once in their life...It's really amazing what you can see.

Being out in the middle of the Australian outback (or American desert I guess) does much the same thing.

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Kurt 10 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Being out in the middle of the Australian outback (or American desert I guess) does much the same thing.

Except there's about 2 miles more atmosphere that light and "shooting stars" need to pass through...
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- Claude Whitacre 10 years ago
  
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  Except there's about 2 miles more atmosphere that light and "shooting stars" need to pass through...
  
  You live at a high altitude...lack of oxygen to the brain....
  
  It explains so much.
  
  (The crowd goes wild!)
  
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- HeySal 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kurt
  
  Except there's about 2 miles more atmosphere that light and "shooting stars" need to pass through...
  
  I spend a lot of time out where there's no city wash out here in the west. I spent nights on the top of Mt. Evens, Mt Anterio, and St Maries Glacier. Although the desert sky is beautiful at night, there is no comparing it to attitude. I know the view you have of the sky up there. It's outrageous!
  
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WalkingCarpet

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Sometimes I wish a huge rock would come and wipe-out this stupid planet. Humanity ain't worth polluting the Galaxy with.

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BigFrank Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet

Sometimes I wish a huge rock would come and wipe-out this stupid planet. Humanity ain't worth polluting the Galaxy with.

PM me for an application for entrance into my group.

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  positivenegative 10 years ago
  
  And they said there was absolutely no danger from this asteroid.
  
  This is what happened yesterday . . .
  
  Meteorite leaves crater in Nicaraguan capital Managua
  
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whateverpedia 10 years ago

Originally Posted by WalkingCarpet

Sometimes I wish a huge rock would come and wipe-out this stupid planet. Humanity ain't worth polluting the Galaxy with.

But... but... you might miss out on the live stream launch of the new iPhone6!!!!!
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TLTheLiberator

10 years ago

Missed us by that much.

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