Doomsday Preppers: Relax! Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

[Feuer Frei!]

It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.

She's a big one, by the looks of that :doh:

SOURCE (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-asteroid-1998-qe2-20130516,0,548201.story)

[mapuc]

Not according to some or should I say a lot of videos on youtube....it's the end of the world as we know it.

Markus

[Oberon]

Typical Obama, can't even bring around the apocalypse properly.... :nope:

[Mork_417]

Hope the weather is good that night, with clear skies. :)

[Feuer Frei!]

Hope the weather is good that night, with clear skies. :)

Well, if you like star-gazing, keep an eye out for this one then:

In case you just can’t get enough impact news, it looks like Mars may actually get hit by a comet in 2014! As it stands right now, the chance of a direct impact are small, but it’s likely Mars will get pelted by the debris associated with the comet.LINK (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/28/mars_impact_the_red_planet_may_get_hit_by_a_comet_ in_october_2014.html)

And to put just how big this sucker is into perspective:
Even using the small number means Mars would be slammed by an unimaginable impact. The comet is orbiting the Sun backward (more on that in a second), so it will be moving at a speed of about 55 kilometers per second (120,000 miles per hour!) upon impact. That means the comet has a huge amount of kinetic energy, the energy of motion. That energy will be released at impact as an explosion. A big one.

A really big one.

Doing a rough calculation, I get an explosive yield of roughly one billion megatons: That’s a million billion tons of TNT exploding. Or, if you prefer, an explosion about 2 million times larger than the largest nuclear weapon ever tested on Earth.

[Mork_417]

Yeah, I will be doing my best to try and watch that one. I need to order some different eye pieces before it happens. I only have a twelve inch, but if the conditions are really good, i should be able to see something. Mind you it will be small, but something. :hmmm:

[Tribesman]

Doomsday Preppers: Relax! Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

Buy gold now, the asteroid may not miss.

[AVGWarhawk]

Buy gold now, the asteroid may not miss.

:haha:

[garren]

The last time NASA said we were safe a meteor hit Russia.


http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/660/371/Russia%20Meteorite%202013%208.jpg?ve=1