When exactly is it coming?
Also, that's damn close to the moon..
If it hits the moon, looks like we're going to have one hell of a huge firework.
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but then it won't.
It says 23.28 GMT. It's currently 12:49 GMT+1, so the asteroid passed by the Earth nearly 12 hours ago.
Basically, you're all late.
EDIT: Oh wait it's 23:28 not 24:28. It's supposed to pass by in 11-12 hours. I'm retarded.
Wasn't this yesterday night? I heard something along the lines of "in 10 minutes an asteroid will pass earth" on the radio before i went to sleep yesterday.
We died.
Goodbye everyone, it's been swell.
Someone scramble a Bruce Willis lead team to the asteroid!
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;33181447]We died.[/QUOTE]Fuck
not again
OH NOES.
We're all going to perish in this unfavourable catastrophe.
If we were really going to get hit they would have rolled out the disabled ramp and put Stephen hawking on a rocket by now.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33180060]It's the size of a fucking aircraft carrier going god knows how many thousands of miles an hour. No matter where it hits, if it did, it would be catastrophic.[/QUOTE]
If it entered the atmosphere it would likely break up on reentry, and if it broke up over ocean, many smaller fragments hitting the water would not do as much damage as a single large object.
Watch as some suicide cult kills themselves because they think it's a spaceship.
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;33180814]My prediction:
[IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/53vcll.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Lexinator;33181200][img]http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2011/11/2005_YU55_flyby.gif[/img][/quote]
Close enough.
Anyone know if it could be seen from Earth? Also if so; pictures?
You can wait till NASA gets the pics and blab about how close we could have been annihilated
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[QUOTE=spree;33179916]Amateur astronomers will need a six-inch telescope to stand a chance of seeing the asteroid, but have been warned that it is moving so fast that it will be difficult to track[/QUOTE]
Can't we just nuke the asteroid? It works in the movies.
We died?
What a relief, the anticipation was killing me.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;33182650]Can't we just nuke the asteroid? It works in the movies.[/QUOTE][IMG]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc3NzA4MDIyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzc1OTM2MQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg[/IMG]
Let's do it
it's foolproof
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33180060]It's the size of a fucking aircraft carrier going god knows how many thousands of miles an hour. No matter where it hits, if it did, it would be catastrophic.[/QUOTE]
it could do what the tunguska one did and just skim within the atmosphere and it would kill us all probably
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[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;33182728][IMG]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc3NzA4MDIyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzc1OTM2MQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg[/IMG]
Let's do it
it's foolproof[/QUOTE]
but the UN will yell at whoever does
[QUOTE=viperfan7;331832]but the UN will yell at whoever does[/QUOTE]
But they still won't actually [i]do[/i] anything.
[QUOTE=Lexinator;33181200][img]http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2011/11/2005_YU55_flyby.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Wow that fucker was really moving
Whew dodged it.
[quote]Amateur astronomers will need a six-inch telescope[/quote]
This made me giggle so much.
[QUOTE=xXParanoidXx;33180395]Just remember this Spree. If it hit the lower Mediterranean Sea you and me would undoubtedly die.[/QUOTE]
Bye Bye little Malta
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[QUOTE=spree;33180562]Yeah you're right, my mistake. According to NASA, there is 'no cause for alarm', so I guess we are safe.[/QUOTE]
Yes because in all of these situations the government and NASA told us, frankly, "Yeah hey guys we're going to die"
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[QUOTE=Mmrnmhrm;33180829]What if it hits the antarctic? Are we fucked then?[/QUOTE]
This thing is going to be extremely hot and destroy a lot of whatever it hits. If it hits a polar ice cap, there will be flooding on a massive scale, and it might throw enough ice and water vapour into the atmosphere to cool down the planet considerably.
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[QUOTE=Lolkork;33181085]It would be a lot smaller when actually hitting the earth, most of it would shatter in to smaller rocks when it reaches the atmosphere.[/QUOTE]
Not something that large.
Smaller asteroids break up on entry into the atmosphere. Larger asteroids, like this one, power through it with a big old "Fuck you" to Earth.
Considering NASA labeled 2006 YU55 as a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid", this Class-C baby could fuck our shit up and ruin an otherwise pleasant day.
Imagine if it hit the moon, that would be a scary sight.
Only 5 more hours ?
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33185651]This thing is going to be extremely hot and destroy a lot of whatever it hits. If it hits a polar ice cap, there will be flooding on a massive scale, and it might throw enough ice and water vapour into the atmosphere to cool down the planet considerably.[/QUOTE]
[I]Cool.[/I]
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