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Near-future Extinction Event ?
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post Dec 9 2005, 08:16 AM
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The Near-Earth Asteroid 99942 Apophis ( former designation 2004 MN4 ) was headline news again this week both in Newspapers & TV news. Observations pointed out that the Asteroid climbed a bit higher on the Torino impact hazard scale ( equivalent cosmic ‘Richter’ scale ) and could hit the Earth ( Southern Hemisphere ) on April 13, 2036 ( a Friday 13th I believe ).
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Anyway, Apophis should pass between the Moon & Earth ( distance 250.000 KM ) in April 2029 … an amazing sight visible from Europe!
Interesting to know is the fact that European Space Agency ESA plans a mission to find out if an asteroid could be deflected from its course ( Don Quichote mission: Hidalgo is an impacter & Sancho is the observer probe ). American astronauts LU & LOVE wrote a paper in NATURE about a tug-rocket and NASA is making plans for a mission called ‘ The Son of Deep Impact ‘ … to be continued…

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More on the Asteroid at:
http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/mission_analysis/asteroid.htm


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- PhilCo126   Near-future Extinction Event ?   Dec 9 2005, 08:16 AM
- - Rob Pinnegar   I guess these guys must be pretty certain about th...   Dec 9 2005, 10:03 AM
|- - ljk4-1   Paper: astro-ph/0512204 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:...   Dec 9 2005, 06:17 PM
||- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 9 2005, 06:17 PM)Pap...   Dec 9 2005, 07:15 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Dec 9 2005, 10:03 AM)I ...   Dec 9 2005, 07:19 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 9 2005, 11:19 AM...   Dec 9 2005, 07:27 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 9 2005, 01:27 PM)If a b...   Dec 10 2005, 02:01 AM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 10 2005, 02:01 AM)I wou...   Dec 10 2005, 11:40 AM
- - RNeuhaus   I have read a paper about "Gravitation Tract...   Dec 9 2005, 07:37 PM
- - RNeuhaus   Urge to Merge: Here Comes Andromeda The above ar...   Dec 9 2005, 08:13 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Dec 9 2005, 10:13 PM)Urge t...   Dec 10 2005, 05:02 PM
- - mike   You mean to say that eventually we'll all die ...   Dec 9 2005, 10:22 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   Important things in the discutio above, JRehling,...   Dec 10 2005, 10:29 AM
|- - tty   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 10 2005, 12:29 P...   Dec 10 2005, 05:22 PM
||- - Bob Shaw   I hate to point out a grim and downright unsettlin...   Dec 10 2005, 06:17 PM
|||- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 10 2005, 06:17 PM)I hat...   Dec 11 2005, 12:53 PM
|||- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 11 2005, 06:53 A...   Dec 11 2005, 08:20 PM
||- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (tty @ Dec 10 2005, 05:22 PM)Actually t...   Dec 11 2005, 12:28 PM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (tty @ Dec 10 2005, 09:22 AM)Actually t...   Dec 11 2005, 05:44 PM
||- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 11 2005, 05:44 PM)Two b...   Dec 11 2005, 06:08 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 10 2005, 04:29 A...   Dec 11 2005, 02:51 AM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 10 2005, 06:51 PM)Actua...   Dec 11 2005, 03:37 AM
|- - tty   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 11 2005, 04:51 AM)Actua...   Dec 12 2005, 07:54 PM
- - tfisher   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 9 2005, 04:16 AM)The N...   Dec 10 2005, 03:24 PM
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- - mike   It could be that if a few more species become exti...   Dec 10 2005, 08:56 PM
|- - Tom Ames   QUOTE (mike @ Dec 10 2005, 03:56 PM)It could ...   Dec 13 2005, 01:38 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (Tom Ames @ Dec 13 2005, 02:38 AM)Yeah,...   Dec 14 2005, 11:09 PM
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- - mike   If I weren't at least a little selfish, I...   Dec 11 2005, 09:41 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   We're getting rather off the subject here; but...   Dec 11 2005, 09:46 PM
- - PhilCo126   An impact on the Moon would be an amazing sight .....   Dec 12 2005, 08:04 AM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 12 2005, 08:04 AM)An i...   Dec 12 2005, 08:25 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   Dvandorn and BruceMoomaw, my point was certainly ...   Dec 12 2005, 08:52 AM
|- - dvandorn   And on this, Richard, we must agree to disagree. ...   Dec 12 2005, 09:18 AM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 12 2005, 09:18 AM)And o...   Dec 12 2005, 09:48 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 12 2005, 04:48 A...   Dec 12 2005, 02:34 PM
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||- - lyford   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 14 2005, 12:58 PM)Yo...   Dec 15 2005, 08:18 PM
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|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 15 2005, 04:56 A...   Dec 15 2005, 02:48 PM
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