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#1 savagegoose

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Posted 30 April 2011 - 10:45 PM

ok got sent a vid of some comet called elenin , seems it is on JPL website but how big is it who can say. heres some apocalypse scenario.

#2 Ugg

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Posted 02 May 2011 - 07:36 AM

hocus pocus

here is a list of some predicted close encounters
My link

this is a near miss for later in the year
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#3 savagegoose

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Posted 02 May 2011 - 07:55 AM

and a really really close 1

#4 wulfgar

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Posted 06 May 2011 - 02:02 AM

savagegoose, on 02 May 2011 - 07:55 AM, said:

and a really really close 1

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Asteroid 2011 CQ 1 is only 4 feet (1.3 meters) wide, so small that itwould have incinerated in Earth's atmosphere before reaching theground, according to officials with NASA's Asteroid Watch program. The asteroid never threatened to hit Earth, they said.

#5 Don't Panic

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Posted 06 May 2011 - 10:11 AM

http://au.news.yahoo...tle-past-earth/
"US space agency NASA said there was no cause for concern"

"NASA spokesman Don Yeomans said YU55's gravitational pull on planet Earth would be immeasurably miniscule.
It would not affect the tides "or anything else"