Broken comet to come within 5.5 million miles of Earth on May 25th.

[fetishblog]

Despite rumors spreading across the Internet, NASA says the Earth will safe from a broken comet on May 25. The Hubble space telescope took this photo of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, which has broken into about 40 pieces. The comet and its pieces are expected to pass within 5.5 million miles from the Earth between May 12 and May 28. That's 20 times the distance from the Earth to the moon. It will be visible on small telescopes.

More info: http://www.spaceweather.com/

[Spunky]

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

[BoyAlley]

Originally Posted by Spunky

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

Die.

8chars.

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by Spunky

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

Not exist anymore?

[madawgz]

so we only have less than a month to live?

[fetishblog]

Originally Posted by madawgz

so we only have less than a month to live?

It's gonna miss the Earth by 5.5 million miles. Unless you're in the path, you should be fine.

[camuseeme]

Houston, I think we have a problem!

[StuartD]

"NASA says the Earth will safe from"

Even NASA makes typos/errors.

[zigx]

superman would fuck that up.

[potter]

wow that's pretty close

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by potter

wow that's pretty close

Yes! LOL! 22 times farther from us than the moon is. I doubt we're in much danger.

[triumph]

Originally Posted by Spunky

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

Send Bruce Willis and Benifer to save the planet.

[BV]

To put it in perspective, it's like flying from miami to seattle and back 785 times.

NOT VERY FAR when it comes to the forces of an asteroid.

[Solid Bob]

Originally Posted by BV

To put it in perspective, it's like flying from miami to seattle and back 785 times.

NOT VERY FAR when it comes to the forces of an asteroid.

Haha man that is a long way still.

[Shoehorn!]

Originally Posted by Spunky

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

Didn't you see that episode of The Simpsons? The pollution in the air will just dissolve it.

[Vitasoy]

The ozone will kill pretty much all of it

[Fucksakes]

what if it hits another nearby planet and breaks that up sending more pieces at us.

[Choppa]

hope they got their math right and forgot to carry the 0 ( 6 times)

and its not just 55 mile

Other wise im gonna have to give Harry Stamper ( bruce willis ) a call

[King Adam]

It just proves they are out there and they can come close. Its just a matter of time untill one hits Earth. Just like the dinasours before us, they got wiped out.

[KRL]

Originally Posted by Spunky

What are we going to do when one actually hits us

Because the earth is 2/3rds ocean, odds are it will hit water. Since the deepest part of the ocean is only 7 miles, if we ever get a big one it would displace the ocean water to its bottom point basically and create tsunami's that would make that big one in Indonesia look like a little ripple. There'd me massive earthquakes worldwide, and a pressure and heat wave that would ignite fires and instantly obliterate anything for hundreds and possibly thousands of miles it it hits land.

Even a small one strike a big city like New York could wipe it completely out in a second.

And its going to happen, just a matter of when.

These are all the previous large meteors that NASA has determined have actually hit the US over the past couple hundred million years.



And the world's major impacts:



Our best shot is to develop a nuke baked defense system that will not take out the incoming meteor, but explode close enough to alter its course a tad which is all it takes.

Another theory is to land small ion generating thruster rockets on the surface
to shift its course.

And lastly to use the US's advanced laser system to zap a warm spot on it using laser beams, which would also alter its course.



A celestial body some 100 meters in diameter, which was supposed to be a meteorite, impacted at Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908. Friction heat generated by contact with the Earth's atmosphere caused this celestial body to break up and explode at an altitude some 6 kilometers above ground surface. This explosion created intense heat which burned an area extending for a 20 kilometer radius from the blast epicenter. Conifer forest covering roughly a 2,000 square kilometers area (equivalent to the size of Tokyo) was completely mowed down by the force of this event (with trees being knocked over in a radial pattern extending from the epicenter).
On average, a Tunguska class meteor impacts with the Earth once every several centuries. Although the odds of such an impact directly on a heavily populated area are estimated to be once in every 100,000 years, if such an event happens, the impact would pose the threat of major disaster.

The giant Chicxulub crater was identified at the north of the Yucatan on the basis of gravity distribution measurements taken from the air (this type of geological survey is used in prospecting for oil). It is believed that this crater was created 65 million years ago by the impact of an asteroid 10 km in diameter. The crater itself is 180 km across, and is believed to be the largest terrestrial impact event occurring since the emergence of life on Earth some 570 million years ago.
According to a subsequent study, the theory suggesting that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by this meteorite's impact has become the most likely.

[nexcom28]

All you need is a big rubber mat that will bounce the meteor back into space..