My source is Nasa but I can't direct you to it because it is on m hard disk. It is 1.24 miles across and would be the equivalent of a 1 million megaton explosion if the worst happens.
2006-09-23 07:49:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi. I would hope for a near miss. This should shift the orbit into a less threatening one.
2006-09-23 08:12:32 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scaremongering. The threat has been re-evaluated and you are going on old information.
(89959) 2002 NT7) is a near-Earth object (NEO) that became the first object observed by NASA's NEO program to be assigned a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for a potential impact date of February 1, 2019. Despite inflammatory press reports, the object has a "low probability" of impact, approximately one in a million.
Further observations of the object have since re-rated the threat lower. As of July 25, 2002, the hazard rating on the Palermo scale had been lowered to -0.25. However, the discovery of an object with an initial hazard rating above 0.0 is still a significant event in the history of the NEO observation program.
On August 1, 2002, the object was removed from the list of objects that present a threat, at least for the next 100 years.
2006-09-23 10:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asteroid 2002NT7 is the name given to the latest extra terrestrial threat and is not to be confused with asteroid 2002WM which scraped by the earth on July the 14th of this year. When the story first broke in late July, the press jumped on it with headlines like "Armageddon in 2019" but astronomers and scientists studying this asteroid now tell us that it PROBABLY WILL NOT hit the earth as first feared.
2006-09-23 08:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Out of the depths of my memory, I have pulled this snippet:
Did the moon save us in 1078? There were reports at the time that the newish moon's upper horn went black on the middle. It is now thought that it might have been hit by an asteroid and the impact could have caused some of the wobblw in the moon's orbit around the Earth.
2006-09-23 21:07:25 · answer #4 · answered by the_emrod 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the time that it took you to log on, get to the question page, type your question, skip the spell check, and press enter, you could have just googled "asteroid 2002 NT7", and got the link below.
But then I'd be short 2 points...
2006-09-23 07:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes heard of it What are you going to do about it? Don't Worry Nasa might be wrong. It will only put your blood pressure up and the stress will kill you. Anyway we have got Bruce Willis he will save you. Now you have put my blood pressure up and I am VERY WORRIED.
2006-09-23 09:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2006-09-23 09:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by lisapizza1992 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a movie like that they put a couple nuclear warheads on it in order to blow it apart. There was flooding and alot of death but not everybody.
2006-09-23 08:14:13 · answer #8 · answered by Grev 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Rolfcoder's link he put into his answer. It will tell you all about it. And give him the 10 points he is due.
2006-09-23 09:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by MrZ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be better if it hit on Valentines day, but, guess it has a reason for the 1st.
2006-09-23 07:53:32 · answer #10 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋