asteroid to come close to earth

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on November 8, 2011 at 2:22pm

It's a sign o' the end times!

Permalink Reply by Aaron S. (USA) on November 8, 2011 at 4:08pm

I guess the Mayan calendar was a little off. That's pretty decent accuracy, though, amirite?

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on November 8, 2011 at 9:02pm

Cool!

Permalink Reply by Hugh Kramer on November 9, 2011 at 8:51am

I remember Comet Kahoutek. There was a big build-up in the media over its close approach and then it passed by on it's merry way around the Sun and the newspapers that tried to excite everyone about it ended up wrapping fish or lining the bottom of bird cages.

Permalink Reply by Chris Johnson on November 9, 2011 at 10:10am

Didn't Apophis set an asteroid on a collision course with Earth in Stargate SG-1?  He was a fake Egyptian god...

Permalink Reply by matt warren on November 12, 2011 at 1:57pm

does anyone happen to have a bootleg copy of that pink floyd  "concert for Kahoutek".?

does anyone remember anything from that far back?  ;)

Permalink Reply by Garaidh Mac an tSaoir on November 20, 2011 at 12:59pm

Apophis: The Asteroid That Could Smash Into the Earth on April 13th, 2036

Apophis is an asteroid with a slightly offset orbit to that of Earth's. Discovered in June 2004, astronomers have determined that it will make a very close flyby on Friday, April 13th, 2029, where it will pass to within 5 Earth diameters of us. The exact path the asteroid follows on flyby in 2029 will determine whether it smashes into the Earth seven years later.

www.deepastronomy.com/apophis-asteroid-could-hit-earth.html

 

Permalink Reply by Sandy on November 21, 2011 at 6:12pm

Wow - 5 earth diameters is close.

Does anybody remember Velikovsky's book Worlds in Collision? If I remember rightly, his hypothesis was that Venus was originally an asteroid that came swinging around earth before getting caught in the sun's gravitational pull. It supposedly caused massive tidal waves, which he said were the basis of the biblical story of the Flood and of similar myths from other parts of the world.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on November 21, 2011 at 9:26pm

Those old stories are cool, even if they are myth.  I love the old "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Shangri-La stories in the same way.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on November 22, 2011 at 12:57am

I've got the book sitting about 3 feet away from me right now, actually.  I made several attempts to get through it, but its just too painful.  He had such a grossly over-inflated writing style.  I felt like I was reading Saturday morning cartoons from the 80's.