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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| A THREE MILE-wide asteroid, that could end life as we know it if it hits! |
| 2017-09-01 |
| [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Nah, cockroaches who bedevil us depend too much upon us. They've become part of nature's welfare system. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-01 15:08 |
| #6 correction on #5 - Chixlub was estimated at 6-9 miles in diameter so Florence is 1/2 to 1/3 as big - but still big enough to give cockroaches the elbow room they need to become the dominant species on Earth. |
| Posted by: Omusosh Johnson6188 2017-09-01 13:43 |
| #5 Re #3 - larger than the Dino-killer ; big enough to do the job |
| Posted by: Maggie Barnsmell3548 2017-09-01 12:40 |
| #4 At our scale it'll miss by quite a bit - solar scale it is pretty close - but nowhere close as the bus-sized asteroid that missed by 30K miles last month. |
| Posted by: Spike Glusogum1383 2017-09-01 12:39 |
| #3 Florence, the asteroid is large enough to end life as we know it if it hits. Who says besides NASA? It would seem the differences between the masses of the asteroid and Earth are quite large. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-09-01 10:13 |
| #2 Put an instrument package and comms on it and take the ride! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-01 00:34 |
| #1 What a nice resource for Space mining. Land on it a few years before an approach, wait until it gets close and off load the mined material. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-09-01 00:11 |