Trajectory Unclear: Feb 2013 Asteroid Will Be Within Thousands of Miles of Earth

[brushfire]

 

[Orgoonian]

Bwaaahaha!
Love that scene!

 

[trey4sports]

I learned on the history channel, on the Ancient Aliens show that there are in fact laser weapons embedded in the permafrost somewhere around siberia. They are there to protect the planet from such events. There is proof of it in our archaeological record.

So i'm not concerned about it.

 

[Zippyjuan]

17,000 miles is still pretty far away. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-DA14-NOT-hit-Earth-year-says-astronomer.html

The space rock will come within 17,000 miles of Earth, which is closer than some of our satellites, but Plait says this is nothing to worry about.
He adds: ‘Seventeen thousand miles is well beneath many of our own orbiting satellites. To the best of my knowledge, this is the closest pass of a decent-sized asteroid ever seen before the actual pass itself. However, let’s again be very clear - it will miss. In astronomical terms, 17,000 miles is pretty close, but in real human terms it’s a clean miss.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Earth-year-says-astronomer.html#ixzz1oHXxxxoB

 

[AFPVet]

This is why we should have space based weapons, not to use on the Earth's surface, but for the once every few-thousand-year asteroid that could make for a bad few decades if it were to hit.

Who says we don't

 

[vechorik]

RT is hyping


Unsurprisingly, though very irritatingly, I’ve seen a lot of websites writing about this as if the asteroid will hit. For example, rt.com has a very confused article about DA14 claiming it will somehow both miss us and hit us:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...asteroid-2012-da14-will-not-hit-us-next-year/

 

[WilliamC]

Who says we don't

Don't talk about Fight Club!

There were at least 10 Space Shuttle missions that were DoD related, most of them classified, so who knows what they put up there?

Now we have to use the Russians to launch our payloads, so I doubt we are currently up to anything nefarious.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

The outer ring of geosynchronous satellites are @ 22,300 nautical miles Those are your military comm sats, TV/radio, surveillance, etc. There are others in highly elliptical orbits aka Molinya/M22. GLONASS/GPS are in the 6,000 nm orbits. there should be some calculations on the 3 axis trajectory of the object, if it's only 11 months out.

The asteroid passes well inside the most critical satellite orbit paths as well as that biggest satellite target orbiting the earth, the moon.

 

[ZanZibar]

You mean we get an extra year?! Awesome! I thought the world was gonna end in 2012.

 

[pcosmar]

You mean we get an extra year?! Awesome! I thought the world was gonna end in 2012.

Nothing is guaranteed.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Trajectory Unclear: Feb 2013 Asteroid Will Be Within Thousands of Miles of Earth

Impact Would Be As Big As Siberian Tunguska Event; 1000 Times More Powerful Than Hiroshima

Mac Slavo
SHTFPlan.com
Monday, March 5, 2012


In the history of the solar system, and even in human history, there are clear records of extraordinary and devastating catastrophes… On the landscapes of other planets, where the records of the past are better preserved, there is abundant evidence of major catastrophes. It’s all a matter of time scales. An event which is improbable in a hundred years, may be inevitable in a hundred million years. Even on the Earth in this century there have been bizarre natural events.

Carl Sagan
Cosmos – A Personal Voyage (1980) [video]


rest of article here:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-ne...0-times-more-powerful-than-hiroshima_03042012

I don't trust anything Carl Sagan says. He's an expert propagandist who will do anything to bend and distort the public image in his favor.

 

[terp]

Haha...Not up on the Mayan Calendar?

We'll be gone for months by then!

 

[awake]

Oh crap, THIS is why we need to adopt socialism so it can save the world.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Like I said, if we can just find folks responsible enough to trust with them.

I of course qualify, but I'm only one man and might not be around much longer, so there would have to be others I could equally trust.

Perhaps you?

But there already exists an asteroid which will someday hit the Earth, and early-detection combined with some sort of space-based technology to deflect or destroy it will be the only way to prevent it or to ameliorate the damage.

If we expect to live long enough we will have to worry about this, but I tend to think for now it's kinda far down on the list.

We're more likely to kill each other before that happens

Oh, yes, OF COURSE you would qualify... according to your own standards. Maybe I was looking for someone a little less pretentious and/or absurdly self-rightous.

 

[WilliamC]

Oh, yes, OF COURSE you would qualify... according to your own standards. Maybe I was looking for someone a little less pretentious and/or absurdly self-rightous.

Sarcasm is obvious sarcasm.

Well, sort of, since I do actually qualify...

 

[Anti Federalist]

I don't trust anything Carl Sagan says. He's an expert propagandist who will do anything to bend and distort the public image in his favor.

Carl Sagan isn't saying much of anything, these days.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Sarcasm is obvious sarcasm.

Well, sort of, since I do actually qualify...

LoL - Know Your Meme.

Let me help you out.

Obvious Sarcasm is Obvious.

 

[WilliamC]

So that's how it works...

Seems you'll be needed to man the space weapons too.

 

[NidStyles]

Again with this crap? Every year it's another rock.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Artificial gravity would be the preferred method for deflection, if it can be made to work and powered with theoretically available forms of energy.

Just match velocity with whatever it is you are trying to deflect a few miles from the surface and power up the mass generator, then deccelerate. Depending on how far from Earth you start it would take the minimal amount of energy possible.

Now if we could do this somewhat cheaply then terraforming becomes more possible, since we could bring in materials from the outer solar system to Mars to increase the atmosphere, and possibly enough water in the form of comets to Venus to rain out most of the atmosphere and hydrate the surface, though that would take 10's of thousands of years.

Far better if we can find and travel to other solar systems with habitable planets, but as far as I can tell this isn't even theoretically possible yet.

Maybe someday...

I'm not entirely convinced we can't do it. Or at least we do have far far better technology than what we are told. And if we haven't visited another solar system, somebody has certainly visited us.