Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth 119
The Bad Astronomer writes "News is starting to spread about a small 45-meter-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14 that will make a close pass to Earth on February 15, 2013. However, some of these articles are claiming it has 'a good chance' of impacting the Earth. This is simply incorrect; the odds of an impact next year are essentially zero. Farther in the future the odds are unclear; another near pass may occur in 2020, but right now the uncertainties in the asteroid's orbit are too large to know much about that. More observations of DA14 are being made, and we should have better information about future encounters soon."
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Seeing more and more reports of near passes. Frigging Bugs must be out of target practice and are homing in on us! Get NPH!
Of course it won't hit us (Score:5, Funny)
The world ends toward the end of this year, duh! Of course the chance of hitting the Earth is 0%, because we won't be here!
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Service guarantees citizenship
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pfffffff..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Big sky, little rock (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of course it won't hit us (Score:5, Funny)
I think you misunderstand the disaster that's coming. When the Mayan calendar ends, all computers that use the Mayan calendar will crash, world-wide. Worse yet, unlike Y2K, where we were able to drag old Cobol programmers out of retirement to fix the problem, experts in Mayan computers are all extinct. So we're all doomed! Except for those of us who don't use Mayan computers. :)
Re:45 meters? (Score:4, Funny)
See, meteorites create tourist attractions. The larger the crater the bigger the cash flow. Meteorite impacts are good for the economy.