Large Asteroid Packing 50 Megatons Of Force Might Come Crashing Down On Earth In 2023

Based on NASA’s calculations there is a one in 30,000,000 chance of LF16 slamming into our home planet – a 99.9999967 percent chance of a miss...

Could be a good thing!

It'll happen one day, again, and we'll be back to stone age, again

50 megatons of kinetic energy is not a lot.

If it does hit, it will most likely miss any cities/towns.

The only Doomsday scenario is if it hits the Yellowstone caldera.

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give me short term doom like in the next 24hrs a huge asteroid will wipe California off the map ! the impact point will be folsom street fair !

the dildo shaped asteroid weights 500tons ! gays are preventive lubing their butts to be ready for the deep impact !







that is doom news ! short term and specific!

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Oh great. Now Israel will go to nuclear war over that tiny patch of land! Good going, asteroid!

I guess you don't know how much dirt, dust, and other debris will wind up in our upper atmosphere then.

So you're saying there's a chance!!

Like all that pollution that was created by Russia's "Tsar Bomba?" A 100-megaton explosion?

I guess I don't know, then.

A nuclear bomb is different than a meteorite and asteroid impact. The impact zone ejects most of that debris high into the atmosphere. It take take months for all of that dust and crap to finally fall back to the Earth's surface. It usually takes multiple meteorite strikes in a rapid succession to cause planetary temperatures to seriously fall due to all of the debris launched high into the Earth's atmosphere.

Any asteroid with such close approaches is an excellent prospect for mining.

Close approaches mean that the delta V required to put the asteroid into high Earth orbit is minimal. Don't worry; high Earth orbit is absolutely safe. You don't see Luna crashing into our planet, do you?

Mass drivers as envisioned by Dr. Gerard O'Neill are good candidates to change the orbit of such asteroids over a period of a few years especially if we use gravity assists in passing Venus, Luna, or Earth.

Many NEOs (Near Earth Objects) appear to be burned out comet nuclei. They are high in carbonaceous materials (think asphalt mixed with oil and gasoline) as well as water. That water is easily extracted and can be used for propulsion, e.g., nuclear-thermal rocket engines.

With nuclear-thermal engines, we can access the entire inner Solar System.

Some of the metallic asteroids have enormous quantities of platinum group metals that can be extracted.

Asteroid mining of NEOs is not only profitable but prudent. Mining those NEOs means they will no longer be a threat to our earthly existence.

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Those are better odds than the lotand people win the lottery all the time...

NASA will now have an assassination order out on you, darth. For the sole reason that you showed them up with minimal effort.

Exactly

I've got plenty of things to keep me occupied and worried, but a meteor 5 years out with virtually zero chance of dropping on my head isn't one of them.

Being eaten by a charm of hummingbirds is slightly higher on my list of concerns.

Is it really called a "charm"?

Yes, (but had to look it up.)

And now you know.....

Well shit, 45 years on earth and I never knew that. Thank you.

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There are alot of animals out there whose groups of them are called unusual names. So it's not unusual for most people not to know many species' group names.

Do you know the term for a large group of liberals?

Dumbasses.

And evidently, per the excellent post below, a large group of NASA executives is called a quagmire.

And now you know.

Last Edited by Billy Ringo on 11/27/2018 10:15 AM

When I was an aerospace engineer, one of my duties was creating a long range plan for our division every year.

Most of the plan was forecasting which government programs were coming up for bid and how we would budget to win them.

However, there was a part of the plan that dealt with opportunities up to 20 years out.

In my last Long Range Plan, I forecast that there would be opportunities to sell missions to NEOs. Our company had both the Apollo capsule experience as well as an appropriate launch vehicle.

Note that NEOs are accessible with missions lasting only about two weeks and using minimal delta V.

The idea is that we would sell a mission for several billion to any customer whether government, corporation, or entrepreneur, to actually visit an asteroid and claim it as a mining property.

I pointed out that in previous gold rushes, the merchants selling supplies such as shovels always made money even if the miners did not.

After the customer claimed the asteroid, we would sell more missions to provide transportation and logistics for them to mine it.

I proposed that we engineer a new market, a Gold Rush to Space.

I was surprised when the executives did not throw me out of the room. Indeed, my proposal remained in the long range plan.

BTW, don't worry about NASA. They don't have any assassins on the payroll. They are too busy writing memos and stabbing other employees in the back to get promoted.

I hope it has improved, but NASA had become a bureaucratic quagmire when I was at the end of my career.

A Charm..Never Knew that..

Dang... the American Dream right there. Screwing over lots of people while raking in billions of dollars fully knowing no human will ever leave the Earth for long, and using specialized RC mining machines will never have the high risk/high reward ratio like it does here on Earth long as we maintain our current paradigm. Life must be good and great for the successful backstabbers in NASA and other American businesses.

I guess you have little faith in the fact that Jesus and his team are here and can take out any such? This is propaganda inciting fear.

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... hey I'm OK with 2023! ... that would be the beginning of the 70th Jubilee ...
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