Giant asteroid

On 11/8/2011 4:56 PM, DWC_TT wrote:
On Nov 8, 10:00 am, Phil wrote:
On Nov 8, 3:52 am, wrote:

A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
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You mean another missed Tuesday event. 200 000 miles to be exact and
the closest in 200 years.

You ain't seen nothin' yet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
"On Friday, April 13, 2029, Apophis will pass Earth within the orbits
of geosynchronous communication satellites.It will return for another
close Earth approach in 2036."

Yeah, a Friday, but YIKES!

Let's not be so hasty. If that asteroid hits earth on that Friday,
Lafferty's last words will be "I WAS USING THE JULIAN CALENDAR!!!"

On Nov 8, 12:04*pm, Simply Fred wrote:
artiage wrote:
A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
Phil H wrote:
You mean another missed Tuesday event. 200 000 miles to be exact and
the closest in 200 years. I guess when talking about the LA
indictment, astrological time frames and probabilities might be
appropriate.

Astrological or astronomical ?

I dreamed of that response, and its definitely astrological, When
Juipter aligns with Mars and the moon is in the 7th house on the 6th
Tuesday after Lent.....then Lance will be indicted.
Thanks
Phil H

Phil H wrote:

I dreamed of that response, and its definitely astrological, When
Juipter aligns with Mars and the moon is in the 7th house on the 6th
Tuesday after Lent.....then Lance will be indicted.

A situation of some gravity.

Simply Fred a écrit profondement:


| A situation of some gravity.

It's worse than "some gravity" around here.

Davey missed a "once in a lifetime" 150 kp/h tailwind a couple of days
ago..

He got himself all togged out to go and head for San Remo which is one
of his usual training routes and an easy 75 kliks away, but the Bord de
Mer route was closed and under a couple of meters of water between
Antibes and Cagnes-sur-Mer in places with the Promenade des Anglais in
Nizza/Nice closed too.

Too friggin' bad. But not only that, the Cop on duty told Davey they
was getting up a search party for some poor ****** a little to the east
who'd been swept away and not yet found: assemble t-d-s at the Mairie.

So Davey changed his togs and spent half a day looking for some ******
along the railroad track which produced no positive results as Davey
figured the ****** had long since been washed down into the
Mediterranean and that a search party in Algeria or Lybia would have
more luck.

But we fared better than the lot in Genes/Genova/Genoa which is the end
of the Bord de Mer highway over on the Spaghetti side. Reports list 8
dead or missing there.

http://azurservers.com:7080//rbr/bord-de-mer.jpg

Hopefully things will improve for the Nice-Cannes Marathon the Sunday
after next or they'll have to turn it into a triathlon Or maybe
cancel it altogether because the staging area in Antibes is like a major
disaster area when that lot have passed through.

From the 2008 event probably:
At the 20 Km staging area in Antibes.

The Chase group 5 minutes down (approx)
http://azurservers.com:7080//rbr/imgp0787.jpg

On the lead group (poor piccy)
http://azurservers.com:7080//rbr/imgp0786.jpg

With another 10,000 from 3 minutes to 3 hours behind
(Chick's name is Benedicte for the record)
http://azurservers.com:7080//rbr/imgp0802.jpg

--
Davey Crockett
France 2012
Votez Le Pen

On Nov 8, 11:52*am, artiage wrote:
A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
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Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws
and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an
asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the
asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions
are exceedingly rare.

-ilan

On Nov 10, 8:22*am, ilan wrote:
On Nov 8, 11:52*am, artiage wrote:

A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
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Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws
and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an
asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the
asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions
are exceedingly rare.

I would prefer to think that it was aimed, rather than aiming. Please
don't disillusion me.

R

On Nov 10, 6:22*am, ilan wrote:
On Nov 8, 11:52*am, artiage wrote:

A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
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Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws
and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an
asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the
asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions
are exceedingly rare.

Yeah, but it only has to happen once to spoil your day.
I still get choked up just thinking about my old pal T-Rex.
DR

On 10/11/2011 14:17, RicodJour wrote:
On Nov 10, 8:22 am, wrote:
On Nov 8, 11:52 am, wrote:

A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
--

Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws
and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an
asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the
asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions
are exceedingly rare.

I would prefer to think that it was aimed, rather than aiming. Please
don't disillusion me.


Yup, sentient asteroids is a pretty worrying concept.

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On Nov 10, 6:22*am, ilan wrote:
On Nov 8, 11:52*am, artiage wrote:

A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634
--

Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws
and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an
asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the
asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions
are exceedingly rare.

-ilan

It's not a two body problem.

Collisions with sizable objects are rare but not unknown.
Accretion of smaller objects (I don't know whether to call it
"collision" when the object burns up in the atmosphere) happen
all the time.

Because it's not a two body problem, an asteroid that is not
previously bound to the Earth can enter a collision trajectory,
and Earth-crossing asteroids can be scattered into an Earth-colliding
orbit. This is one of the reasons why close approaches are of
concern.
There was a possibility that during the 2029 approach, Apophis
would take a path that set it up for a collision in 2036. This
possibility is now thought to be very small.

However, because integrating these orbits is very sensitive to the
accuracy of the initial conditions - and possibly, for a close
approach,
even on the shape of the asteroid - when such an asteroid is
discovered, there is always a period where the possibility of a
future impact has to be taken seriously.

Fredmaster Ben

atriage wrote:
Yup, sentient asteroids is a pretty worrying concept.

Shirley you mean suicidal sentient asteroids.