City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall

FiniteLoop sends a collection of links about a city-sized asteroid named Toutatis which will approach - but miss - Earth this September. MSNBC also has a story, and JPL and the Near Earth Object program have more information.

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Re:It's coming right for us!

[Anonymous Coward]

Would they tell us if it was going to hit? Why wouldn't they? Why would they?

No. Because. Because.

it's called Delta Vee

[way2trivial]

and, strangely, with massive astral objects, one EXTREMELY WELL COMPUTED bit of force
(knock it with a feather) actually could make it happen.

if you wait till it's next to the earth to park it, yea, a really INTENSIVE amount of energy is required.

but, if you do the math perfectly, you can get it to park itself with a really light tap..

(fuckup the math, and it does crash on the planet)