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

Feuer Frei! · 05-21-13, 07:00 PM

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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

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mapuc · 05-21-13, 07:20 PM

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 · 05-21-13, 08:31 PM

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

Mork_417 · 05-22-13, 04:04 AM

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

Feuer Frei! · 05-22-13, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by FloppyRat

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

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

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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.

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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 · 05-23-13, 05:54 AM

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.

05-22-13, 04:04 AM	#4
Mork_417 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: DB-15 Posts: 851 Downloads: 263 Uploads: 0	Hope the weather is good that night, with clear skies. __________________ Heading to AM49.(U-553)

05-23-13, 05:54 AM	#6
Mork_417 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: DB-15 Posts: 851 Downloads: 263 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Heading to AM49.(U-553)

05-21-13, 07:20 PM	#2
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,537 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	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

05-21-13, 08:31 PM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Typical Obama, can't even bring around the apocalypse properly....