Asteroid 2005 YU55 to narrowly miss Earth Tuesday

[jessica]

It would suck if they miscalculated and eventually steered the asteroid into earth's path.

[doctor09210]

I can only guess it depends on how fast it's moving. Slow gets captured, fast has escape velocity? Also it's trailing the Moon. Could the Moon be exerting any influence on it and pulling it away?

If it were going slower it would hit us because the earth's gravity would have less force to have to pull against , but at the speed it was going it was pulled towards us slightly but to much force was produced against our pull

[doctor09210]

One idea I've read about is landing a probe onto an asteroid with a rocket. If you detect an asteroid early enough, all you need to do is just push it a little - if it's far enough off even a little push could change it's course enough to miss the Earth.

That is the plot of Armageddon,

[Brazoo]

That is the plot of Armageddon,

No dude - those guys made a huge 'splosion! They 'splosioned it in half and both pieces narrowly missed the Earth.

Can you imagine if the climax of the movie was like "We moved the asteroid 20.3 meters and now our calculations show it's just going to miss us!!"? Pretty lousy ending for a movie.

[Brazoo]

It would suck if they miscalculated and eventually steered the asteroid into earth's path.

This is a theory for asteroids that we KNOW for sure are going to hit Earth - so either way...

Again - all theoretical, but from what I understand it's likely that we have the technology right now to potentially save a lot of people's lives. It's really just about money.

[Brazoo]

...and that's the best approach...try to steer it off course...not try to blast it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

[doctor09210]

This is cool,
an asteroid hitting the moon.

[Brazoo]

That IS cool!

[doctor09210]

Hrs are some amazing galaxies

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[Brad]

Hrs are some amazing galaxies

I've always been partial to the Milkyway.

[Mikey]

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[Brazoo]

Nice binary system Mikey!

[doctor09210]

This lady holds more calories in a day than our universe has stars
World's fattest mum Susanne Eman wants to be heaviest ever | The Sun |News


And she wants to get bigger.

but now she needs to downsize our she will die.
The mother of all diets | The Sun |News

She even has her own website that you need to pay to use, so she can afford to eat more.