Dos vidanya, Apophis!
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20091230...r-c8e2916.html
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Broken link. Pretty sure you mean this one: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20091230...r-c8e2916.html
That reads almost like an article out of the Onion.
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Response:Further studies ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expected to come no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) above Earth's surface, but they indicated a small possibility of a hit on subsequent encounters.
In October, NASA lowered the odds that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 from a 1-in-45,000 as earlier thought to a 1-in-250,000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path. It said another close encounter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.
Without mentioning NASA findings, Perminov said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis is getting closer and may hit the planet. "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," Perminov said.
"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow to prevent a collision
Him not even knowing the year we calculate the fly-by doesn't leave me feeling confident about his ability to do this right.
My worry is that we could wind up making things worse. You have to hit that thing with a pretty high level of precision to ensure the course adjustment being made won't ultimately increase the probability of impact with Earth.
Curious, I posted the exact same link at another site and it still works fine.
(fixed it, thanks)
I'm pretty sure you copy/pasted from the post output (not the post edit window) and the ellipsis got carried over here when posting. In fact, I grabbed the link from your post at that other site. :wink:Originally Posted by Arch2008
Russia will save earth
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http://www.risethemag.com/index.php/...to-save-earth/
Hello Amadish,
We're already discussing that over here:
http://www.thescienceforum.com/viewt...123&highlight=
Take care.
thanks for the post, interesting information.
I see no relation between this and the original topic. This has been copy/pasted from at least two other websites.Originally Posted by SandraKim
I know that this will appear as a little off-topic, so I hope it will be permitted to be posted.
In my opinion, and I admit to not having much to back this up - that the members here will accept, at least. Even so, I believe the name of the asteroid has been proposed and recorded incorrectly, and really should have been 'Apopohis', rather than Apophis.
I do have my reasons for making this observation, some of which effectively extend back to ancient Egyptian theology, yet I have no way of verifying how folk in those times would have pronounced the relevant original name.
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