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Message 1464648 - Posted: 15 Jan 2014, 17:18:50 UTC

First 2014 Asteroid Discovered: Update


Early this year - for just the second time in history - an asteroid was discovered before it impacted the Earth. Quite harmless though, it was very small, probably just a few meters across, and burned up harmlessly in our atmosphere.
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Message 1467476 - Posted: 22 Jan 2014, 22:56:45 UTC - in response to Message 1464648.  

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet, a solar system body bigger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/herschel/ceres-20140122/index.html#.UuBLBvtMHSc
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Message 1467709 - Posted: 23 Jan 2014, 14:43:33 UTC - in response to Message 1467476.  

There is a mission going to Ceres, Dawn. It should arrive in 2015.
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Message 1467947 - Posted: 24 Jan 2014, 0:34:19 UTC - in response to Message 1467709.  

There is a mission going to Ceres, Dawn. It should arrive in 2015.
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Message 1478495 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 0:11:24 UTC - in response to Message 1467947.  

A gigantic asteroid nearly 900 feet wide will race past planet Earth tonight, a harmless but sobering reminder of the dangers posed by such interplanetary visitors.
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Message 1478690 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 10:47:32 UTC

there is any way what we can do, if know, asteroid going to hit earth?
i suppose - no ( except a sent to it Bruce Willis with dynamite :D ).
and from another side - there is already too many human beings on that planet. and even our civilization is ugly planet killer really - maybe it is better to take a hit from cosmos and start all from scratch? maybe then result be a better, than that, who we see around now?
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Message 1478695 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 11:15:08 UTC
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there is any way what we can do, if know, asteroid going to hit earth?


That's why Orbit@home is, was, (will be) a very important project(again)!

http://orbit.psi.edu/
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Message 1478702 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 11:29:34 UTC - in response to Message 1478695.  

i do not see, why it can be important.
ok, you do know, after a week or month, or a year gigantic asteroid, say 1 km in diameter, with possibility of 0.972 hit the earth.

and what?
all what that information do for you - you can be ready to die...
there is not any possibility to change that asteroid trajectory, or anihillate them...
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Message 1478711 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 12:00:21 UTC - in response to Message 1478702.  
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i do not see, why it can be important.
ok, you do know, after a week or month, or a year gigantic asteroid, say 1 km in diameter, with possibility of 0.972 hit the earth.

and what?
all what that information do for you - you can be ready to die...
there is not any possibility to change that asteroid trajectory, or anihillate them...



Humans are an inquisitive species. There's a reason why we do so much research you know.

You're probably right though that we won't be able to stop an asteriod on it's collision course with earth. Real life isn't like the movies unfortunately...
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Message 1478715 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 12:15:36 UTC - in response to Message 1478711.  

>There's a reason why we do so much research you know.

yes, without doubt. and many of that research is designed to got money, funds and so on - nothing good to humanity or civilization. like a all experiments with hydrogen fuel on internal combustion engines, who is idiotism by itself...
as so, there is a good way to try to see right, primary reason, why that or another project has created and run. not always it be running for that reason, who is declared worldwide...sadly, but most humans is no sapiens. and almost all is no good, trustable, creatures....
imho.
all facts around us every day say it.
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Message 1478736 - Posted: 18 Feb 2014, 13:16:44 UTC
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nothing good to humanity or civilization


Most scientific research is actually very good voor humanity, let's think of cancer for example. Research for curing cancer saved al lot of lives already!

most humans is no sapiens


LOL, why am I thinking of politicians now...
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Message 1479289 - Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 20:36:05 UTC

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Message 1479445 - Posted: 20 Feb 2014, 3:21:58 UTC

Two million miles, in the galactic scheme of things, that was close. Personally I hope that the collective genius of the scientific and engineering community will be able to find a way to divert or destroy the big one when it is detected. Also maybe by then mankind will have spread out to colonize other planets or moons in the solar system so that if a planet killer heads earth's way some of us will survive.
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Message 1481403 - Posted: 24 Feb 2014, 22:37:25 UTC
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The moon has taken another hit for us.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036

Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds.


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Message 1481472 - Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 0:19:09 UTC - in response to Message 1481403.  
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The moon has taken another hit for us.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036

Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds.


Cheers.



Earth got lucky!
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Message 1481483 - Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 0:39:51 UTC - in response to Message 1481472.  

The moon has taken another hit for us.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036

Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds.


Cheers.



Earth got lucky!

Apparently so. ;-)

Cheers.
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Message 1484587 - Posted: 4 Mar 2014, 23:24:41 UTC - in response to Message 1481483.  

Earth is in for a close call.

Asteroid 2014 DX110 is set to fly between the Earth and the moon Wednesday. Slooh Space Camera will broadcast the flyby live starting at 4 p.m. EST on March 5.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/asteroid-2014-dx110-flyby-march-live-video_n_4898936.html
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Message 1484601 - Posted: 4 Mar 2014, 23:59:38 UTC - in response to Message 1484587.  
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Earth is in for a close call.

Asteroid 2014 DX110 is set to fly between the Earth and the moon Wednesday. Slooh Space Camera will broadcast the flyby live starting at 4 p.m. EST on March 5.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/asteroid-2014-dx110-flyby-march-live-video_n_4898936.html

Damn! I won't get to see it as that will be 11am tomorrow morning here and it's suppose to be raining (I'll just have to remember to what the broadcast). :-(

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Message 1484674 - Posted: 5 Mar 2014, 3:22:06 UTC - in response to Message 1481483.  

The moon has taken another hit for us.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036

Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds.


Cheers.



Earth got lucky!

Apparently so. ;-)

Cheers.

I wish that it had been a larger impact. Something that would rattle the politicians cages even more than Shoemaker/Levy 9 did when it hit Jupiter. Just imagine a large strike on the moon visible in daylight.
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Message 1484762 - Posted: 5 Mar 2014, 7:53:32 UTC - in response to Message 1484674.  

The moon has taken another hit for us.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/video-shows-asteroid-smashing-into-moon/story-fnjwlcze-1226836449036

Astronomers from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia have released video footage of the event which produced the brightest ever confirmed lunar impact. The afterglow lingered for some eight seconds.


Cheers.



Earth got lucky!

Apparently so. ;-)

Cheers.

I wish that it had been a larger impact. Something that would rattle the politicians cages even more than Shoemaker/Levy 9 did when it hit Jupiter. Just imagine a large strike on the moon visible in daylight.



Quite a spectacle that would be!

Those Blood Moons are more 'common' it seems:


http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-blood-moon-lunar-eclipses-2014-2015
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