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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 01:42 AM Original message |
German schoolboy says Asteroid Apophis has 1 in 450 chance of hitting Earth; NASA says he's right |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'll be 58. |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sounds a little misleading - I'm not sure I'd count hitting a satellite as |
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FVZA_Colonel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 01:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. As I said in the OP, I have similar suspicions. |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That's true - we'll surely have wicked cool anti-asteroid technology |
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MissHoneychurch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 03:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. They said in the news |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 07:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. if it gets close enough to hit a satellite |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 09:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. The concern is that hitting a satellite might slow it down... |
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siligut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. There was news about Apophis in 2005. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-18-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Apophis risk not increased |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
9. they spent 37 million getting it wrong |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. Not if I have anything to say about it |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-16-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. *gasp* We're doomed, I tells ya! Doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-18-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Again? |
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