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Don’t panic: Huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon

The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it'll miss us by 3.2 million miles.

www.geekwire.com

The bad news is that an asteroid of city-killing proportions is heading in our direction, but the good news is that it'll miss us on Saturday night by 3.2 million miles.

• The space rock, known as 2002 NN4, generated enough scary headlines that NASA felt compelled to put out a reassuring note today. "There is no danger the asteroid will hit the Earth," NASA said.
• The asteroid has been described as being as big as the Empire State Building, but Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait points out that one study estimates it as being even larger, with a diameter of 735 meters (2,400 feet). That's not as big as the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck 65 million years ago, but big enough to cause widespread destruction.
• Researchers say it's just a matter of time before a killer space rock is detected on a collision trajectory. That's why NASA and other space agencies are planning missions such as Hera and the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, to see what it would take to divert a threatening asteroid. You'll be hearing more about this during the buildup to Asteroid Day on June 30.

Just 3.2 million miles away this time.

 

[DESTROYA]

I didn't even know about it.....lol
I guess ignorance is bliss but then again we really had nothing to worry about.

 

[GAMETA]

Closer than mars but 15 times our distance from the moon.

Then you realize you could fit all the other planets in our system between the Earth and the Moon.

And then the asteroid is the size of a human made building.

...

 

[Tesseract]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Closer than mars but 15 times our distance from the moon.

Then you realize you could fit all the other planets in our system between the Earth and the Moon.

And then the asteroid is the size of a human made building.

...

The way 2020 has been going, I wouldn't have been surprised if the universe found a way to redirect this straight toward us s

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

One of the best things I've heard Bill Burr say is that if we ever found out a asteroid was for sure gonna end all life on Earth, there would be an Earth-With-Crying-Jordan-Face meme up on twitter within 5 minutes

 

[eot]

 

[GAMETA]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

If death was certain, I'd like to watch it too. Must be a glorious sight.

 

[Foamy]

They wouldn't tell you if it was going to hit us. The news would probley leak shortly before it hit but in all likelihood nobody would believe it.

 

[GymWolf]

Can you imagine the chaos and anarchy if they announce that an asteroid is gonna destroy the planet?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

They wouldn't tell you if it was going to hit us. The news would probley leak shortly before it hit but in all likelihood nobody would believe it.

Hollywood movies tell me otherwise, and movies never lie to me

Can you imagine the chaos and anarchy if they announce that an asteroid is gonna destroy the planet?

 

[quickwhips]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

I want to survive just to out live TrainedRage who still can't get laid by his boss.

 

[Dacon]

I am so disappoint

 

[TrainedRage]

I want to survive just to out live TrainedRage who still can't get laid by his boss.

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!

 

[quickwhips]

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!

Maybe you do. I live in the middle of no where and like that very much.

 

[TrainedRage]

Maybe you do. I live in the middle of no where and like that very much.

 

[quickwhips]

I wish i was that cool and lived to be that old and owned that much land. Plus i look stupid in a bow tie.

 

[Fbh]

Asteroids are going to be scary once Bruce Willis is no longer around

 

[Rentahamster]

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!

Are you living in the blueballs society?

 

[Stouffers]

Closer than mars but 15 times our distance from the moon.

Then you realize you could fit all the other planets in our system between the Earth and the Moon.

And then the asteroid is the size of a human made building.

...

No you can't.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Asteroids are going to be scary once Bruce Willis is no longer around

It's okay. Affleck can drill for the nuke

 

[TrainedRage]

Are you living in the blueballs society?

Me IRL.....

 

[Rentahamster]

Me IRL.....

Super Saiyan Blue Lance Armstrong

 

[PSYGN]

Hollywood movies tell me otherwise, and movies never lie to me

His ears are on upside down.

 

[O-N-E]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

Please hold my hand.

 

[TaySan]

So cool and terrifying at the same time. O.O

 

[GAMETA]

No you can't.

You actually could...

The sum of the diameters of the planets (excluding Earth) is pretty much equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Around 390k kilometers.

 

[jufonuk]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms

Try and wank one out before you burn.
I'll do my best to time it so when it impacts I will come...

hnnnggggboooooom!!

 

[Stouffers]

You actually could...

The sum of the diameters of the planets (excluding Earth) is pretty much equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Around 390k kilometers.

You cannot physically rearrange the planets and cram them between the earth and the moon. Besides the gravitational implications, the technology for such a feat is nowhere on our roadmap.

 

[GAMETA]

You cannot physically rearrange the planets and cram them between the earth and the moon. Besides the gravitational implications, the technology for such a feat is nowhere on our roadmap.

Duh

 

[Stouffers]

Duh

Well, you said "you 'can' place every planet between the Earth and the moon," and now you're saying you cannot. When you say someone can do something, that means it's physically possible. Peddle your lies elsewhere, fella. We ain't buying.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

 

[mortal]

#TeamAsteroid (kinda) almost gets their first W...

...falls short once again

 

[lyan]

They wouldn't tell you if it was going to hit us. The news would probley leak shortly before it hit but in all likelihood nobody would believe it.

somehow reminds me of

 

[Tesseract]

Try and wank one out before you burn.
I'll do my best to time it so when it impacts I will come...

hnnnggggboooooom!!

asteroid fire wank pact complete, you better honor your side of the deal

 

[jonnyp]

Some people never grow too old for some Mario cosplay

 

[jufonuk]

asteroid fire wank pact complete, you better honor your side of the deal

I'll scream your name as I burn

 

[Tesseract]

I'll scream your name as I burn

same to you, entanglement complete

 

[GAMETA]

Well, you said "you 'can' place every planet between the Earth and the moon," and now you're saying you cannot. When you say someone can do something, that means it's physically possible. Peddle your lies elsewhere, fella. We ain't buying.

 

[jufonuk]

same to you, entanglement complete

Change your tag to "almost crushed by an asteroid" EviLore do it. Coward!!!!!

Spoiler

dont ban me.....

 

[hariseldon]

Can you imagine the chaos and anarchy if they announce that an asteroid is gonna destroy the planet?

A bunch of people would riot while the government told us all to stay in our homes...

 

[hariseldon]

Jarebear showing us his wanking folder again.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

if the big one comes, i'll walk outside and embrace the wall of fire with open arms