Asteroid

[Turbo D]

No not the videogame,(hey this is in the chit chat =P), heh. There is going to be an asteroid passing through town if you space heads are interested.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100406/sc_space/newfoundasteroidwillflyclosebyearththursday

[guyjin]

sweet. It would be kind of cool if one of these was large enough to be visible with the naked eye, transiting the moon.

[RoyVegas]

but poses no threat of crashing into our planet

I hope they're wrong.  We could use a few more natural disasters lately as there haven't been enough. 

[Alt-Nintega]

Please nothing is going to happen. NASA seems to love scaring people on purpose.

[oldskool]

I don't think a 77 foot asteroid would do too much damage, especially if it hit the water.

[guyjin]

I don't think a 77 foot asteroid would do too much damage, especially if it hit the water.

You underestimate the power of asteroids. The one that killed the dinosaurs (and virtually everything else on earth larger than a rat) was only 6 miles in diameter. (and hit water; specifically, the gulf of Mexico.) 77 feet is about 1/400th that size, but 1/400th of the end of the world is still pretty fucking scary.

[RoyVegas]

but 1/400th of the end of the world is still pretty fucking scary.

[oldskool]

I don't think a 77 foot asteroid would do too much damage, especially if it hit the water.

You underestimate the power of asteroids. The one that killed the dinosaurs (and virtually everything else on earth larger than a rat) was only 6 miles in diameter. (and hit water; specifically, the gulf of Mexico.) 77 feet is about 1/400th that size, but 1/400th of the end of the world is still pretty fucking scary.

I don't underestimate the power of an asteroid.  I know how much damage that they can do.  But 77 feet compared to 31,680 feet is quite a difference.  So yeah sure, a 77 foot asteroid is gonna kick up some dust, and possibly fuck some shit up - but odds are that it will land in water. 

Now, I didn't realize that the great asteroid landed in the Gulf Of Mexico, but I've heard of that before.  I wonder how that covered the Earth in a shroud of darkness, maybe it hit a shallow spot, I dunno.

[Turbo D]

I wonder how that covered the Earth in a shroud of darkness, maybe it hit a shallow spot, I dunno. 

Scientists recently reaffirmed the theory of the dinosaur asteroid event. I've attached some articles. =)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6233YW20100304
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/Chicxulub.html