According to the likes of "Saul Levy", those working for or within
government never make mistakes, never tell a lie, and there's no such
thing as a bad Yid.
Therefore, all that's external to his MI5/CIA and DARPA/NASA realm of
conditional physics and science wizardly expertise, no matter what
happens along the way, that big old nasty thing isn't coming anywhere
close to Earth, and Saul is supposedly never wrong about anything.
.. - Brad Guth
On Apr 16, 1:45 am, "Skybuck Flying" <BloodySh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6fIS_34_CxE8-vcC5GvbjD4MIOQ
>
> German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper
> 10 hours ago
> BERLIN (AFP) - A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates
on
> the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper
re****ted
> Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
> Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of
Astrophysics
> in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the
> Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster
> Nachrichten re****ted.
> NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told
its
> sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young
> whizzkid had got it right.
> The schoolboy took into consideration the risk of Apophis running into
one
> or more of the 40,000 satellites orbiting Earth during its path close to
the
> planet on April 13 2029.
> Those satellites travel at 3.07 kilometres a second (1.9 miles), at up
to
> 35,880 kilometres above earth -- and the Apophis asteroid will pass by
earth
> at a distance of 32,500 kilometres.
> If the asteroid strikes a satellite in 2029, that will change its
trajectory
> making it hit earth on its next orbit in 2036.
> Both NASA and Marquardt agree that if the asteroid does collide with
earth,
> it will create a ball of iron and iridium 320 metres (1049 feet) wide
and
> weighing 200 billion tonnes, which will crash into the Atlantic Ocean.
> The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying
both
> coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that
> would darken the skies indefinitely.
> The 13-year old made his discovery as part of a regional science
competition
> for which he submitted a project entitled: "Apophis -- The Killer
Astroid."
>
> Better start developing some survival plan and counter measurements
plan,
> just in case ! ;)
>
> Bye,
> Skybuck.
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