'Asteroid apocalypse': ANOTHER massive rock that could wipe out mankind 'flying past

Asmooh

Close: The asteroid will not hit Earth, but another one is feared to

An asteroid that has been hurtling towards earth amid fears it could wipe out all life is due to fly past the planet TOMORROW.
Many people around the globe have spent the last week preparing for the 'asteroid apocalypse', and this latest rock will reach us tomorrow - but speed right past.
The massive space rock has been closed monitored by scientists at NASA as it has the potential to completely devastate the entire world.
An internet channel, the Slooh telescope, is monitoring the rock's movements tomorrow and is planning to show its journey live online.


A Slooh spokesman said: "Slooh will be showing live views of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Icarus, on the day of its closest approach, as it passes within just 5 million miles of Earth.









"Like its namesake, this space rock is getting in trouble for flying too close. Join Slooh for a live show to have a look at this 1 km long asteroid and learn why it’s an important object for astronomers to study and understand."
Although this asteroid will miss, there have been claims another is due to hit the Earth in Spetember.
An online community of end-of-time bloggers had speculated that the huge asteroid would hit the Earth sometime between September 22-28 and would wipe out civilisation.
Meanwhile biblical theorists were anticipating the asteroid would trigger the Rapture and the start of a seven-year tribulation.
Following widely publicised fears, NASA released a statement aimed at calming people down.
the statement said: "NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small.
"In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."
But regardless of Nasa's insight, the conspiracy theories are in abundance.





One blogger has even claimed a controversial US military exercise is in fact preparation for the asteroid.
A huge military exercise called Jade Helm soon will take place across multiple US states with 1,200 troops participating - but details of its purpose are scarce.
Now Armageddon conspiracists are linking Jade Helm to their predictions of the asteroid hitting Earth in September.
The blogger on the Whistleblower800 website, which claims to lift the lid on government corruption, suggested Jade Helm was an "insurance policy" in case an asteroid hit and riots broke out.

He wrote: "If we make it to fall, JH will just be a training exercise.
"If not, Jade Helm will have troops in place to put down what is going to be pandemonium and revolution.
"For us, even if we don't live in the inner cities where the riots are bound to begin, the worst part is that we have been set up to be the opposition.
"The US military will shoot at us, because we will be seen as fools refusing to accept the sacrifices required to save our planet.
"If those of us with the guns don't wake up to it now, we are setting ourselves up for imprisonment and slaughter."
In 2011, Christian broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on May 21 of that year.
He said that ‘Judgement Day’ would take place on May 21, when Jesus would return to Earth and the “righteous” would be taken up to Heaven.
Camping, who ran Christian broadcast channel Family Radio, was reportedly “flabbergasted” when the world continued as usual on that day.




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Are you already packing?

Merces

Murica!

Joeseph Balls

Within 'just' 5 million miles....

Delirium

Just fire Bruce Willis at it!! :P

Mr. Incognito

Going to be hard not to laugh at the conspiracy loons when it blows up in their face

Pherekydes

Asmooh wrote: »

A huge military exercise called Jade Helm soon will take place across multiple US states with 1,200 troops participating - but details of its purpose are scarce.

1200? omg, where do they get all these troops?

"Nevah in the field of human endeavour have so many owed so much to so few!"

Strike a few medals, there, will ya.

Anyways, my bags are packed for the trip to the new world. I've been chosen in the worldwide lottery (purely to help with repopulation).

Delirium

Robot lands on comet and now a comet is headed for us??

Damn you, Skynet!! :mad::P

biko

No cigar, asteroid

paulbok

Pherekydes wrote: »

1200? omg, where do they get all these troops?

"Nevah in the field of human endeavour have so many owed so much to so few!"

Strike a few medals, there, will ya.

Anyways, my bags are packed for the trip to the new world. I've been chosen in the worldwide lottery (purely to help with re population).

Aye, the troops didn't do much with the riots in Ferguson, 1200 won't do a lot to contain half a continent of gun nuts if law and order does break down.
The quality of conspiracy theories have gone down a lot lately.....

wil

paulbok wrote: »

Aye, the troops didn't do much with the riots in Ferguson, 1200 won't do a lot to contain half a continent of gun nuts if law and order does break down.
The quality of conspiracy theories have gone down a lot lately.....

I'm not moving till I hear the asteroids side of the story:pac:

Probably turn out to be nothing more than an alien craft doing a little sightseeing and annihilation. Pfft

SEPT 23 1989

Asteroid Icarus

proper movie name

LadyFenghuang

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Asteroid Icarus

proper movie name

Too near the sun?

looksee

So how close could an asteroid come before it would do damage? If one skimmed past at half a million kilometers (just beyond the moon) could its passing have an effect on earth? Does a hit become inevitable as it gets closer? How close?

Not a NSA agent

Crazy gun loving Christians vs NASA.

Normally I would vote NASA with their whole science thing but eventually the former will have to be right if they make enough claims. I better stock up on canned food to be safe.

gramar

Some fairly dramatic images posted there OP.

Asmooh

looksee wrote: »

So how close could an asteroid come before it would do damage? If one skimmed past at half a million kilometers (just beyond the moon) could its passing have an effect on earth? Does a hit become inevitable as it gets closer? How close?

I think it also has to do with the speed, because the moon is at constant speed it does not matter, but even the moon effects the water level on earth.

Lets say a comet is passing between earth and moon with a very high speed it will effect things on earth.

Akrasia

looksee wrote: »

So how close could an asteroid come before it would do damage? If one skimmed past at half a million kilometers (just beyond the moon) could its passing have an effect on earth? Does a hit become inevitable as it gets closer? How close?

A hit only becomes inevitable if it gets captured by the earths gravity well, and this depends on the speed of the asteroid. If the asteroid has enough escape velocity it will curve towards the earth, but fly past. if the astroid is travelling at a slow velocity relative to earth, when it passes the earth, it might not have enough energy to escape the earths gravity, and it will slow down and begin falling back towards the earth. Whether it hits us or not depends on it's trajectory, it could get captured into an eliptical orbit around us and become a new moon. If this happened, it would be unstable because of the three body problem, the orbit interacting with the earth and the moons gravity would change on every pass, it could potentially be diverted into a collision with the earth or the moon.

The earths atmosphere extends to roughly 300 miles above the surface so if the astroid passed within this distance, it would disturb our atmosphere and generate heat and turbulance. the closer it got to earth, the more of an effect it would have.
But at this height, the atmosphere is very very thin, so the effects might not be noticable. 80% of our atmosphere is within 10miles of the surface, so the asteroid would need to get really close to generate significant heat or to experience atmospheric breaking

Other than atmospheric effects, a large asteroid passing earth would have practically zero gravitational impact, it's too small and travelling too fast to really affect anything. It might possibly disturb some satelites if it got really close, but if you think about it, Mount everest is 8km tall, so tall mountain ranges would produce these kinds of gravitational anomolies routinely and they don't have big impacts on orbiting satelites (routine corrections required)

jimgoose

Yes, Icarus does that. It came within 4m miles in 1968.

paulbok

looksee wrote: »

So how close could an asteroid come before it would do damage? If one skimmed past at half a million kilometers (just beyond the moon) could its passing have an effect on earth? Does a hit become inevitable as it gets closer? How close?

One did pass recently between the Earth & moon with no effect. link

As a poster above mentioned, if it is going fast enough then there is no problem (apart from a miniscule chance a satellite or two gets whacked).

There probably is a distance that would cause problems even if it passes but it would want to be damn close, and possibly visible to the naked eye.
Even at that if passes really close to the Earth without being on an impact path, then it would skim off the atmosphere (like a stone on waters surface). Unless it's a huge object in the KMs range then even that wouldn't have any major affect on the planet, spectacular light show alright, maybe a small shockwave/sonic boom that could do some damage.

Dyr

bastard asteroids, the wasps of space

paulbok

Great game in it's day though.

Vomit

Whenever I see stories like this I get really hopeful, but then it turns out to be millions of miles away... no chance

Knasher

looksee wrote: »

So how close could an asteroid come before it would do damage? If one skimmed past at half a million kilometers (just beyond the moon) could its passing have an effect on earth? Does a hit become inevitable as it gets closer? How close?

There is an asteroid called Apophis passing by the Earth in 2029. When it does it will pass within the ring of satellites in geostationary orbit and about 30000 km above the Earth. After its orbit was calculated, there was a slight chance that it would pass through what is called a keyhole. This would be a small window in space that if it passed through, then its orbit would be effected just enough that the next time around, in 2036, (or again in 2068), it would hit Earth. Right now that looks very unlikely.

It isn't just a matter of closeness though, if it passed below this window, then its orbit would be affected more, but it would still miss us because the orbits simply wouldn't align the next time around.

The asteroid passing won't effect the Earth in a meaningful way by its passing though, its mass is just way too low for that. It might pose a risk to some satellites though.

Banjo String

"Like its namesake, this space rock is getting in trouble for flying too close.

Wooden spoon,straight to bed with no supper and no Xbox for a week.

Joeseph Balls

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Within 'just' 5 million miles....

You do realize that within the comparison of space, within 5 million miles is pretty damned close.

Ash.J.Williams

Nature renewed by fire made whole

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BB3RH3x4_Q

There's actually this great trilogy of books, which can only be described as a pre-apocalyptic, called The Last Policeman, in which there's an asteroid heading for Earth that nobody can do anything to stop - because launching nukes at it would only create thousands of smaller and equally as damaging shards of rock - and just how society crumbles knowing this. Essentially that everyone knows that in a few months time, nothing will survive.

di11on

Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris will save us

Harry Palmr

Asmooh wrote: »

A Slooh spokesman said: "Slooh will be showing live views of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Icarus, on the day of its closest approach, as it passes within just 5 million miles of Earth.

Its going to miss by 20 moon journeys then, or by 632.8 diameters of the Earth.

/sleeps soundly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSupJ5r2zo