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Nasa, "2007 TU24 Being Pulled in by Earth's Gravity. Expected impact in Pacific"
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| LuvTiesto |
updated 53 minutes ago
PASADENA, California (CNN) - Nasa has reported that Asteroid 2007 TU24 is being pulled in by earth gravity and is nearly 500 times closer to Earth than the moon. According to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale, the impact will create a tsunami which could hit the California and Japanese cost, "At this time, we have several scenarios running, and hopefully we will have all the information available by tomorrow morning."
Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 11, 2007. The first radar detection of the asteroid was acquired on Jan. 23 using the Goldstone 70-meter (230-foot) antenna. The Goldstone antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone station in Southern California's Mojave Desert. Goldstone's 70-meter diameter (230-foot) antenna is capable of tracking a spacecraft traveling more than 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) from Earth. The surface of the 70-meter reflector must remain accurate within a fraction of the signal wavelength, meaning that the precision across the 3,850-square-meter (41,400-square-foot) surface is maintained within one centimeter (0.4 inch).
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/...d.ap/index.html
Holy crap, brace for impact |
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| RJT |
Your link doesn't work.
Edit: And I can't find any real news on this anywhere. |
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| Ted Promo |
| Paul van Dyk's gonna make a ch00n about it I bet! |
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| iammesol |
| Singing Satellite |
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| RJT |
Yup, that was pretty much what I found.
So yeah - that's pretty much par for the course on what I'd expect from LuvTiesto. |
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| Zewad |
| so in 2hours there will be a new dot in teh sky.. and it will then go away |
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| Clovis |
| Surfers around southern california share a collective grief. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by LuvTiesto
updated 53 minutes ago
PASADENA, California (CNN) - ----> Nasa <---- has reported that Asteroid 2007 TU24 is being pulled in by earth gravity and is nearly 500 times closer to Earth than the moon. According to Deputy Administrator Shana Dale, the impact will create a tsunami which could hit the California and Japanese cost, "At this time, we have several scenarios running, and hopefully we will have all the information available by tomorrow morning."
Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 11, 2007. The first radar detection of the asteroid was acquired on Jan. 23 using the Goldstone 70-meter (230-foot) antenna. The Goldstone antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone station in Southern California's Mojave Desert. Goldstone's 70-meter diameter (230-foot) antenna is capable of tracking a spacecraft traveling more than 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) from Earth. The surface of the 70-meter reflector must remain accurate within a fraction of the signal wavelength, meaning that the precision across the 3,850-square-meter (41,400-square-foot) surface is maintained within one centimeter (0.4 inch).
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/...d.ap/index.html
Holy crap, brace for impact |
The second I saw that typo I knew it was bull. |
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| SteelWolf |
| Well, if the National Anal Sex Association says an asteroid is coming, then dammit, its gonna hit us!!! |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| I almost sent a team of astronauts to nuke this bitch. No need in the end. |
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