Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth

musatov writes "There's talk on The Minor Planet Mailing List about a small asteroid approaching Earth with a 99.8% probability of colliding. The entrance to the Earth's atmosphere will take place October 7 at 0246 UTC (2:35 after this story goes live) over northern Sudan, releasing the energy of about a kiloton of TNT. The asteroid is assumed to be 3-4 meters in size; it is expected to burn up completely in the atmosphere, causing no harm. As a powerful bolide, it may put on quite a show in the sky. For those advanced enough in astronomy to observe, check the MPEC 2008-T50 and MPEC 2008-T64 circulars. NASA's JPL Small Body Database has a 3D orbit view. The story has been already picked up by CNN and NASA."

Comments

Re:Is this really news?

[QuantumG]

RTFA.

It is blackhole

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

created by the cern collider. It is coming back for a rematch with the collider. But the collider has tunrned tail and run away from the field. This round goes to the blackhole.

Reports indicate Darth Vader has already moved out of his bunker 1 mile under the Vice Presidential mansion and taken up a position in the orbit, in case it is not an asteroid at all but a squadron of rebel X wings.

Re:Scary...

[db32]

More importantly, would they even tell anyone and cause a panic. I suspect if it was a real threat they wouldn't let the news out until it was too late to worry.