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wingrider
12-09-2011, 07:14 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/video/honolulukitv-18211460/maui-telescope-discovering-life-ending-asteroids-27215323.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fhonolulukitv-18211460%252Fmaui-telescope-discovering-life-ending-asteroids-27215323.html
interesting vid on asteroids that may hit the earth.
Yeah I heard they just discovered another one and it IS the size of a planet. Hope it has no trajectory towards us.
Conley
12-09-2011, 09:48 AM
Yeah I heard they just discovered another one and it IS the size of a planet. Hope it has no trajectory towards us.
That is unusually large for an asteroid. Yikes! Where is it?
That is unusually large for an asteroid. Yikes! Where is it?
Can't remember off hand.....but I think NASA had something up on it. I don't think it is anywhere close to us.
Conley
12-09-2011, 04:55 PM
It better not be!
wingrider
12-09-2011, 06:42 PM
That is unusually large for an asteroid. Yikes! Where is it?
I read something about that.. if I remember correctly though it is about the sie of ceris ( a moon of jupiter) and is about 1.7 million miles from the earth
Conley
12-09-2011, 06:50 PM
OK, not too bad. I'm surprised it didn't get sucked into Jupiter considering how much gravitational pull there is.
wingrider
12-09-2011, 06:55 PM
here is a little info on it , it is called vespa
Findings by the Dawn spacecraft (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=11diq316i/EXP=1324683886/**http%3A//dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/), currently in orbit around Vesta, (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=12ngcenc2/EXP=1324683886/**http%3A//planetary.org/explore/topics/asteroids_and_comets/vesta.html) suggests the asteroid belt's second largest object more resembles a tiny planet than it does it does an asteroid. Vesta may be something between an asteroid and a rocky world like Earth, according to the Associated Press. (http://news.yahoo.com/views-giant-asteroid-vesta-revealed-015325226.html)
http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-dawn-discovers-vesta-more-planet-asteroid-194100148.html
but when googling this info I came accross this piece of information
Jupiter sized asteroid throwing planet discovered???
It seems that there is a cap of scientists in NASA that believe there may be a giant planet- up to four times the mass of Jupiter- may be lurking on the other side of the solar system throwing asteroids at us...
The theory goes that our Sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system — a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest. It’s theorized that the object may be some 30,000 astrological units from the Sun [Fun fact: An "astrological unit" is the distance between the Earth and the Sun (roughly http://thepoliticalforums.com/images/stories/News/We_Cant_Explain_it/large-asteroid-throing-planet/2suns.jpg93 million miles).], making the planet so cold that it would have been difficult for us to see it with our current technology.
http://www.theweeklyconstitutional.com/news/we-cant-explain-it/705-jupiter-sized-asteroid-throwing-planet-discovered
Nibiru?
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