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Gorath is coming!

PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:42 pm
by Robert Saint John
Well, I guess now we know what year GFW takes place. :wink:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/12/2 ... index.html

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Friday, December 24, 2004 Posted: 9:02 AM EST (1402 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.

There have been only a limited number of sightings of Asteroid 2004 MN4, which has been given an initial rating of 2 on the 10-point Torino Impact Hazard Scale used by astronomers to predict asteroid or comet impacts, said Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

No previously observed asteroid has been graded higher than 1.

On Friday, April 13, 2029, "we can't yet rule out an Earth impact," Yeomans said. "But the impact probability, as we call it, is 300-to-1 against an impact."

The asteroid was discovered in June and rediscovered this month.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:56 pm
by kiryugoji04
Um... boom?

PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:22 am
by MrZilla69

PostPosted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:00 pm
by Kaiju Nexus

??

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:15 am
by Croczilla

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:21 am
by UltraGodzillaX

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:56 am
by GiganGoji
No, we just need to aim all our weapons at it!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:47 am
by KingCaesar
Or we could exagerate the news, make a new site talking about it, but say there is a 250 to 300 chance it will hit, and show it everywhere so people get freaked out. Dont know about you guys, but it sounds like a plan to me :P

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:13 pm
by bunnyhero

PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:22 pm
by UltraGodzillaX

PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:50 am
by emeGoji

PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:50 am
by kiryugoji04

PostPosted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:33 pm
by Godzilla
No, we can use all the world's nuclear missiles destroy it!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:50 am
by Emperor Kedzuel

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:29 pm
by Temjin
How's about opening a black hole in front of it some 20, 000 light years away from planet X, and get rid of both our problems in one stroke!!! Then again, it could backfire and feed the black hole......Then we'd ALL be screwed - even those envious martians!
:P :P

All kidding aside - It's news to me. The world will unte and create something smarter than Hollywood and get us off this planet if need be or destroy it before it hits us, if possible.

They'll hit the panic button when the thing gets REAL close to one of our neighboring planets and they "can't fire at it".....

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:33 pm
by bunnyhero

PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:05 pm
by Rexrapptor

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:26 pm
by neo godzilla jr

PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:04 am
by Metalliza
This is nothing Bruce Willis can't handle.