Asteroid 2007 WD5 is poor marksman: Now predicted to totally miss Mars by AURaptor

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Asteroid 2007 WD5 is poor marksman: Now predicted to totally miss Mars

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:04 AM

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After several updates during the past few weeks concerning the estimated trajectory of asteroid 2007 WD5 as it approaches the planet Mars, scientists are now: “effectively ruling out the possible collision with Mars” on January 30, 2008

Astronomers have concluded that the asteroid has only a "one in ten thousand" chance of hitting Mars—that is, a 0.01% chance—which pretty much negates any possibility that the asteroid will have a collision of the closest kind with the Red Planet.

Astronomers and researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California), and the Near-Earth Object (NEO) program office within JPL, used data from four observatories collected between January 5th and 8th.

This data confirmed to the scientists that, as of January 9, 2008, the asteroid will most likely pass about 16,155 miles (26,000 kilometers) from the center of the planet at about 4:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST, California time), or 1200 UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) on January 30, 2008.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/16056/1075/

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:21 PM

ODDBALLE8

dammit... and that little red bugger is just sitting there asking for it too... ;oP

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:01 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by OddballE8:
dammit... and that little red bugger is just sitting there asking for it too... ;oP

ROFLOL!

Ain't that the truth!

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:46 PM

CYBERSNARK

Damn, looks like somebody's gonna lose a round of Orbitals.

(Orbitals is a pool-like game from my sci-fi-verse; a computer simulates a planetary system [moving in realtime], and players fire simulated meteors into the system, trying to use gravitational slingshots, orbital paths, and entry velocity to strike pre-determined targets.)

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Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:14 AM

CRUITHNE3753

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Orbitals is a pool-like game from my sci-fi-verse; a computer simulates a planetary system [moving in realtime], and players fire simulated meteors into the system, trying to use gravitational slingshots, orbital paths, and entry velocity to strike pre-determined targets.

Interesting concept. Could bear being developed into a real game.

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Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:43 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing a Tunguska-sized impact on Mars. Still, this asteroid will pass close enough to Mars that, by comparison, if it were Earth, it would pass within the orbits of MEO satellites.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:27 PM

ODDBALLE8

its actually kinda scary if you think that it might as well have been on course for earth...

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