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Astroid may hit Mars on the 30th of January.
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Badass! I hope we can see the impact, maybe catch the impact with our telescopes and maybe with the rovers and Mars Global Surveyor.
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That'd be cool, but...
Scientists tracking the asteroid, which is halfway to Mars...
Halfway to Mars? Halfway from where?
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That would be pretty awesome. We'll have to see what happens.
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Originally Posted by keekeeree 
That'd be cool, but...
Halfway to Mars? Halfway from where?
Half-way from where they first started tracking it I guess.
I wonder what this means if this was a asteroid heading for Earth, 40 days warning would screw us hard.
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
I wonder what this means if this was a asteroid heading for Earth, 40 days warning would screw us hard.
Not that hard:
"It is similar in size to the Tunguska object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb that wiped out 60 million trees."
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Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton
Not that hard:
"It is similar in size to the Tunguska object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb that wiped out 60 million trees."
That could still wipe out a city like New York or London. It wouldn't kill us but it would cause lots of damage.
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
That could still wipe out a city like New York or London. It wouldn't kill us but it would cause lots of damage.
You'd be fine as long as you could get to the New York Public Library.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
You'd be fine as long as you could get to the New York Public Library.
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Originally Posted by keekeeree
That'd be cool, but...
Halfway to Mars? Halfway from where?
Apoareion? The asteroid belt? The Oort cloud? The termination shock? The heliopause? There are plenty of perfectly reasonable contexts in which that statement could be made, though you're right that they should have either specified it in the article or just left that bit out. I'd suspect that if the scientists interviewed actually said those words they meant from apoareion (the asteroid's farthest approach to Mars in it's orbit).
I wish they'd say if the impact would on the visible face of Mars from Earth, and what time they'd predict the impact at. I also wish JPL's Solar System Simulator was a little more capable...
[Edit: Hmm, does 'apoareion' imply that the object is orbiting Mars or would it still apply to an object in solar orbit?]
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Halfway from the Bug Planet?
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Halfway from Microsoft Campus?, after all it is going to crash…
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Originally Posted by angelmb
Halfway from Microsoft Campus?, after all it is going to crash…
It's not an asteroid, it's a chair from Steve Ballmer's office.
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Man, ooh man. Sometime in the late 90's that Zeta talk woman predicted a hit. She had photo's to 'prove' the whole thing. Nothing happened. Some guy on IRC went out of the country, just in case.
If this is true, I'm screwed anyway, I'm a solid 5 meters below NAP(that is 5 meters below groundwater level.)
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Originally Posted by Sijmen
Man, ooh man. Sometime in the late 90's that Zeta talk woman predicted a hit. She had photo's to 'prove' the whole thing. Nothing happened. Some guy on IRC went out of the country, just in case.
If this is true, I'm screwed anyway, I'm a solid 5 meters below NAP(that is 5 meters below groundwater level.)
Huh?
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Originally Posted by Sijmen
Man, ooh man. Sometime in the late 90's that Zeta talk woman predicted a hit. She had photo's to 'prove' the whole thing. Nothing happened. Some guy on IRC went out of the country, just in case.
If this is true, I'm screwed anyway, I'm a solid 5 meters below NAP(that is 5 meters below groundwater level.)
You live on Mars?
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Huh?
Originally Posted by nonhuman
You live on Mars?
No. Sometime ago, people started building 'dijken' to hold the seawater back. Meanwhile the dry land behind those dijken lowered due to the lowered water level. Anyway, some people were smart enough to exploit the land and provide housing, and I'm stupid enough to go and live here.
Btw, I missed that Mars bit. 
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I would love to see something like this happen. I don't think we would ever see something cooler than this in our life time.
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