CristiNa
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![[*]](./images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif) posted on 7-29-2010 at 08:30 PM |
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End of the World 2182
A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of slamming into Earth would most likely hit in 2182, if it crashes into our planet at all, a new
study suggests.
The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has about a 1-in-1,000 chance of actually hitting the Earth, but half of that risk corresponds to potential impacts in
the year 2182, said study co-author Mar Eugenia Sansaturio of the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain.
Sansaturio and her colleagues used mathematical models to determine the risk of asteroid 1999 RQ36 impacting Earth through the year 2200. They found
two potential opportunities for the asteroid to hit Earth in 2182.
The research is detailed in the science journal Icarus.
The asteroid was discovered in 1999 and is about 1,837 feet (560 meters) across. A space rock this size could cause widespread devastation if it were
to hit Earth, based on a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists have tracked 1999 RQ36's orbit through 290 optical observations and 13 radar surveys, but there is still some uncertainty because of the
gentle push it receives from the so-called Yarkovsky effect, researchers said.
People seemed to have forgotten about 2012...
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CristiNa
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| posted on 7-29-2010 at 08:33 PM |
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 I don't plan on living for that long.
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kmn5
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| posted on 7-29-2010 at 11:59 PM |
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theres a closer one 
http://www.clubcarisma.com/viewthread.php?tid=9961#pid84146
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Sileighty
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| posted on 7-30-2010 at 12:08 AM |
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Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" comes right up in my mind...
Don't worry. We can always send a space shuttle there, drill a big hole and nuke that sucker into pieces.
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