Russian Scientists: Apophis Asteroid Could Destroy Earth in April 2036

Funny he says

"it was only named apophis after we determined its trajectory was determined to intersect with earth, if it was the case we would have named it Tiffany or Bambi"

Shows they DO INFACT talk in code

2029 Friday the 13 of April

it's only half a kilometre wide

it'll be bad, but earth destroying?

come on.

it could take out a billion, at worst imho.

reports like this are utter bullshit

And if you want to know what a Rose Bowl Stadium sized asteroid would do to us, listen...

"If it threads the keyhole in 2029, it will hit earth in 2036"

Take out a Billion??

That a lot of people, I would call that bad..

bad, but not earth destroying, this is why i called that YAHOO report bullshit.

it's disgraceful reporting.

[link to www.zeitgeistyreport.com]

Asteroid APOPHIS could destroy earth in 2036 say Russian scientists!!

As far as Apophis goes, NASA seems to be taking a less alarmist point of view, as Donald Yeomans, head of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office stressed that the chances of that pesky overgrown pebble hitting us is only 1 in 250,000:

“Technically, they’re correct, there is a chance in 2036 [that Apophis will hit Earth], however, that chance is just 1-in-250,000, The Russian scientists are basing their predictions of a collision on the chance that the 900-foot-long (270 meters) Apophis will travel through what’s called a gravitational keyhole as it passes by Earth in 2029. The gravitational keyhole they mention is a precise region in space, only slightly larger than the asteroid itself, in which the effect of Earth’s gravity is such that it could tweak Apophis’ path. The situation is that in 2029, April 13, [Apophis] flies very close to the Earth, within five Earth radii, so that will be quite an event, but we’ve already ruled out the possibility of it hitting at that time, on the other hand, if it goes through what we call a keyhole during that close Earth approach … then it will indeed be perturbed just right so that it will come back and smack Earth on April 13, 2036. The chances of the asteroid going through the keyhole, which is tiny compared to the asteroid, are “minuscule,”

he's not saying they're correct that the earth could be destroyed, he's saying that TECHNICALLY, this pebble, because that IS what it is, in terms of planet killers, COULD hit us.

if it were to hit land, it'd take out some tens of millions, perhaps more depending on where it hit. if it hit the sea, which is far more likely, maybe a billion or so from the resulting tsunamis.

The earth human population in 2036 will hardly be more than one million... and as the human tribes will be very scarcely spread across the whole planet the impact of this asteroid hit won`t deal much harm. No extinction and no doom, sorry...

agreed

I dont think anyone knows exactly what it would do, since there has never been an explosion that big on earth...

NASA initially estimated the energy that Apophis would have released if it impacted Earth as the equivalent of 1480 megatons of TNT (114,000 times the energy from the nuclear bomb Little Boy, dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan).

[link to en.mimi.hu]

there have been explosions FAR FAR bigger than what that would produce, and look, here I am typing bullshit on my computer, on an earth that hasn't been destroyed.

Apophis in MacGyver:



Teal'c on MacGyver:



More interesting than this thread.

Last Edited by Bugsy Moran on 03/05/2011 07:30 PM

This seems to be NEW INFO
On January 31, University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid Apophis as it emerged from behind the Sun.
The object became famous in late 2004, when it appeared to have a 1 in 37 chance of colliding with Earth in 2029, but additional data eventually ruled out that possibility. Asteroid impacts have helped shape the history of life on Earth, and studying the potential for future impacts can help astrobiologists understand what might be in store for the future habitability of our planet.
However, on April 13, 2029, the asteroid, which has a 900-foot (270-m) diameter, will come closer to Earth than the geosynchronous communications satellites that orbit Earth at an altitude of about 22,000 miles (36,000 km). Apophis will then be briefly visible to the naked eye as a fast-moving starlike object.
MORE with chart and image

[link to www.astrobio.net]

if an asteroid is coming, im getting a helicopter to survive the impact. :p

it's nowhere near big enough to destroy the earth

do they give out Russian PHDs in bags of turnips now?

Bankers with politicians will fuck the earth up before that.

who cares, I will be fifty!!!

ia a killer asteroid is coming, a world "war" will be created to 1) distract, 2) provide 'merciful killing' before the apocalyptic asteroid does which could prove scarier because it is more unknown than what a war is.