Earth is going to explode because of a big asteroid that will hit in 9 days?!?
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Tell my friends and family that I love them.  Go tell everyone I could that Jesus loves them.
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Science fiction is always best when based on some fact or scientific theory.  I just heard that  Asian scientists believe that the Earth will be hit by a meteor the size of the moon sometime between 2026-2028 that will cause an ELE, extinction level event.  You should write a story about that and how some humans and animals survived and how they adapted to life on the "new" Earth.  I would definitely read it.
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The earth DOES go through an arm of the asteroid belt that extends very close to earth's orbital path that's why we get spectacular metior showers every november.  \n\nnow that that is out of the way.\n\n  yes sometimes satelites and or the spacestation do get hit.  in fact they are more often getting hit than not.  they are under nearly constant bombardment however like was earlier said most of what hits them is smaller than grains of sand.  if they were to get hit by something largish though depending on where it hit exactly and how it is very likely that it would cause MAJOR damage.  ultimately resulting in the satelites decaying orbit and eventuall reentry.  this sort of thing happens all the time.  personally i'm waiting for hubble to take a right good one right in that pretty little mirror it's got.  that will be one great big and expensive I TOLD YOU SO!\n\nas for the space stasion.  some of its components are like 15 years old.  most of us don't even have cars that old.  we are talking potential for irreparable damage and Cascade FAILURE. any # of things could happen including but not limited to Explosive Decompression.
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http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_earth.html#coregravity\n\nThe Earth is picking up several tons per day of dust and other stuff, not including the very uncommon meteorite.
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Hi,     Asteroid 2004XP14 will be moving past very close to Earth on Mon. July 03,2006 at 04:25 Universal Time.  You can calculate out your time from that.  This  asteroid will be passing just 432,308km from Earth.  This asteroid is between 410m and 920m in diameter.  In order to see this asteroid you will need a moderate sized telescope along with some experience.  I hope you able to see it!!!!!    Dave.  remember>>>>04:25UT
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ha ha ha, i herd about it too, but i herad also that that comet will pass near the earth and it won't hit it. I heard also that in som cpuple bilions of years our galaxy will crash will another galaxy blah blah blah ... i think all these will happne at some time, but i don't know when
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I worry more about mass extinction events like an asteroid impact or finding out that giant aliens have just been raising humanity as a food source to harvest en masse. Bird flu might do a job on us or some alien organism brought back by space exploration which our bodies are unable to manufacture antibodies. Maybe global nuclear conflict will leave the earth a smoking glow-in-the-dark beacon rotating and wobbling in the solar system. Excuse me I have to go find my aluminum foil hat to block the gamma rays. Wait what if planet Jupiter is a brown dwarf star and decides to go nova? What if the sun flames out? What if the magma in the earth's crust makes the poles flip positions? .........
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The truth is ...\nAn asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space. \nA preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 - although the uncertainties are large. \n\nAstronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value. \n\nFrom its brightness, astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.
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Sure, in simple terms the main theory right now is that of a large meteoritic impact, proposed back in 1980.  It fits the requirement of a rapid and sudden kill-off event.  What killed the dinosuars?  Well the immediate effect of a large asteroid impact would be global firestorms.  The ejecta reaches low earth orbit and then superheats as it re-enters the atmosphere.  This pretty much covers much of the planet in fire.  Other bad things happen, toxic metals in the air and water, dust obscuring the sun, many bad things, but the main killing factor is the global fire storm.\n\nAs scientists we really like the asteroid impact theory as it is supported with the following eveidence (I have not heard any serious arguments about a double impact by the way):\n\n1. The boundry layer in which the extinction occured is ultra-rich in the element irridum.  These irridium levels are not found on earth, but match very well to those of meteoritic samples that we have.  This boundry layer with irridium has been found all over the globe.\n\n2. Shocked quartz deposits have been found in the regions near central to lower north america, indicating a large shockwave propagated across the area\n\n3. Tiny glass beads have been found in the same regions, with larger ones more concentrated near the Yucatan.  Thes glass bead are most closely related to objects we call Tektites, glass that forms from meteorite impact ejecta.  (cool science thing: you can get tektites for a couple dollars at any rock shop!)\n\n4. Tsunami deposits from that era have been found in the gulf of mexico region, indicating massive tidal wave events\n\n5. A crater caused an impact large enough to cause all of these things has been found right on the coast of the Yucatan, centered on Chicxulub, and dating to the right time period.
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First off, as others have said, the physics of Apophis are well known now.  At the time, however, the asteriod was too far away to get the accurate measurements needed to determine it's trajectory.  But within a couple of days they DID get the measurements.  No, Apophis will not hit in 2029.  There is a miniscule chance (1:45000) it may hit in 2036, but we'll know decades before and there IS something we can do about it.  On the flip side, there will be a day when Apophis will hit us if we do nothing.  It's only a matter of time.\n\nIf, however, the Earth was going to go and there wasn't a thing that could be done about it, who would want to know?  Civilization would disintegrate - no one would go to work crime would be rampant, and things would be horrific long before the asteroid hit.  No government would tell us.  \n\nPersonally, I wouldn't want to know my family was going to die without any hope.
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It will happen, but exactly when isn't known. Take a look at this website for current risks for those objects that do come relatively close to Earth ==>http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
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NASA wont let that happen. NASA have already announced that an asteroid is speeding towards and NASA also have said that they are prepared for it. Acording to thier plans they are going to launch a spacecraft which will be equpied with 3 rocket bombs. This space craft will launch 3 rocket bombs far away from earth atomosphere in space towards Asteroid which will break up asteroid. though NASA have also said that earth shud be ready to face lots and more frequent rocks falling from space due to debris created by collsion of rocket bombs and asteroid in sapace.
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If you're talking about asteroid Apophis, you're a bit early. It's not due until 2036. The current impact risk is put at 1 chance in 6,250 (99.98% probability of a miss)\n\nCheck this website for up-to-date impact risks for known near-Earth-objects (NEO's) -->http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
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the world is not going to end next year. the world is going to end in 2012 when the meteor hits. DUH!!!
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I'd lay pretty good odds that the destruction of a planet in our solar system, and one not even that far from us relatively speaking, would have such catastrophic consequences on the Earth that we'd probably all be destroyed. That is one reason we might resist the otherwise obvious urge to blow up Mars.
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Relax!! On the NASA/JPL website where all such objects are tracked and listed, the asteroid you mention has such a vanishingly small chance of striking Earth that it's not even given a risk factor. The object (2004 XP14) has been tracked for two years and its orbit precisely plotted and absolutely no danger at this late date exists for it to strike Earth. To do so, its current orbit around the sun would have to be drastically altered and there's nothing that can do such a thing.
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I don't think the science channel said it was going to hit. It said that there was a "chance" that it could hit.\nCurrently the odds are about a 1 in 300 chance of it hitting the earth on march 16 2880.\nHowever since we are talking about almost 900 years in the future it is really hard to predict the asteroids exact path.\nMany things affect the orbit of asteroids (gravity of planets, the solar wind, even the thermal emission of the asteroid itself)\nIt will take many years to measure the path of the asteroid more precisely. and then we will have a better idea of how close it is going to get.\neither way, we are talking 900 years in the future, so there is no need to panic. Even if further calculations show it will hit, we have plenty of time to come up with ways to prevent this.\nso go out lay down in the sun with a nice cool drink, soak up some rays, and worry not about such things.