How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth

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How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth

Posted by timothy on Monday February 23, 2004 @10:12PM from the we-already-saw-that-movie dept.

jefu writes "In January there seems to have been an incident in which it was thought that an object (asteroid) in space might have hit the earth within a couple of days of being spotted. It did miss, though. This story (from NASA/Ames) talks about the discovery of the object and the process that astronomers went through to determine if the asteroid was or was not a threat."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 22:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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pfft by Graspee_Leemoor · 2004-02-23 22:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Asteroids, Smashteroids. Who cares anymore?

Anyway, what's this I hear about a new Euro coin with the multi-view effect? I always wondered how they made those...

graspee
1. Re:pfft by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 22:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That would the Dutch coin in celebration of the birth of a princess last year. It's for sale in the Netherlands since yesterday, and looks pretty cool.
  
  Here's the scoop on it:
  
  http://www.geboortemunt.nl/Pages/geboortemunt.ht m
  
  Don't suppose you can make much of the Dutch language though.
2. Re:pfft by October_30th · 2004-02-23 23:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  They're all perverted potheads, anyhow.
  You say that as if there's something wrong with being a perverted pothead...
  
  --
  The owls are not what they seem
DARN... by -Maurice66- · 2004-02-23 22:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bush missed another chance to test his old ballistic rocketry...
8 Comments so far - server has already timed out. by inertialmatrix · 2004-02-23 22:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

p00f.
Re:Ob Simpsons quotes by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 22:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

in soviet russia, karma whores YOU!!
Re:mod 04 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 22:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

what about an asteroid hitting the earth? is it good, or is it whack?
Not so.. by glassesmonkey · 2004-02-23 23:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It only means that no one has invented a time-travel machine YET.. The way I understand it, IF it is at all possible then you wouldn't be able to be back in time BEFORE the creation of the time-travel machine / worm-hole / space-time effect / quantum-parallel universe traversal.
1. Re:Not so.. by CAlworth1 · 2004-02-24 03:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  The reasoning is that for most of the time machine scenarios to work, they need to be sort of anchored in time, and by their being there, they allow objects near them to move in terms of time. An example of this could be a vergy large mass, but in a small space, warping space and time around it.
  
  There was a Star trek movie (i forget which one) that involved flying a klingon bird of prey around the sun so fast that time travel was achieved - I have been told that the sun is not of proper mass or size for this to work, but that this was the right general idea. Going by that theory, it may be possibiy to use some kind of singularity that already exists (and has for some time) to travel to the past, and to the object's past, but never before the existence of the object - as you get back that far, there was nothing to help push you back in time...
Miss Earth? by fozzmeister · 2004-02-24 02:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've heard of Miss World, but how hot is Miss Earth? is she the Pornstar Miss World? Come to think of it I've never heard of AL00667, perhaps he is one of those mechanical fucking machines you see on the net. yeh that makes sense!
Frodo Baggins spots aster0id by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-24 04:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

omg teh eye is coming.
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