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wooolF[RM]
24th July 2002, 21:30
An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space.
A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 - although the uncertainties are large.

Astronomers have given the object a rating on the so-called Palermo technical scale of threat of 0.06, making NT7 the first object to be given a positive value.

From its brightness, astronomers estimate it is about two kilometres wide, large enough to cause continent-wide devastation on Earth.




Read more here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm
KeKs
24th July 2002, 21:45
thanx WooolF......wooohooo we all will die!!!
luck777jojo
25th July 2002, 04:49
dan it I'm gonna spend that day on a big bot in the middle of the ocean and pray that it doesn't hit me :p
KeKs
25th July 2002, 22:12
ehm bad idea.....if thins thing hits the ocean somewhere an huge wave will get u :)
luck777jojo
25th July 2002, 22:17
not it you're in a boat with an inclosed top kinda like two boads welded together :p
thevilone
26th July 2002, 14:04
Don't u mean a submarine :D
KeKs
26th July 2002, 16:46
LOL yeah a submarine. the wave might throw u on shore ..... but from 1000ft altitude :)

Just screw a parachute to it :)
luck777jojo
27th July 2002, 03:45
no I actually wasn't thinking of a submarine but... that's actualy a good idea also ;)
The_IRS
28th July 2002, 07:48
oh sh*t! i have wasted my life! right before i die i'm going to get so high it won't be funny!
pro
28th July 2002, 08:13
Originally posted by luck777jojo
not it you're in a boat with an inclosed top kinda like two boads welded together :p

hahah.. where do you come up with these ideas?
The_IRS
28th July 2002, 20:10
i think he is a bit messed up in the head. lol two boats put together!? :p
luck777jojo
28th July 2002, 22:10
yeah I am a bit wierd but... if you're not wierd life isn't fun :p
tri0n
28th July 2002, 23:24
hmm i don't care about such this news better the world get distroid by a asteroid then by nuclear bombs. . .
Shogun0
6th August 2002, 14:27
I agree with tri0n
-SytraX-
8th August 2002, 04:33
Best solution in this case would be to save up a load of cash until 2019, when you could afford your own plane so you could fly up high enough to miss the devistation. If however the asteroid misses earth you could have one heck of a party to celebrate
:p
[MPC]MeTwoWhat
10th August 2002, 18:25
first of all where da hell u get this information? second why the hell did u have to tell us!?!? just let us live our miserable lives geez now i sob...
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