asteroid in 2007?

Question

there is a bible code claiming that a comet or asteroid will hit earth in 2007. and i'm scared. :( everything else that's been decoded has already happened.. so what if this does happen? aahhh i'm too young and confused to die now!!

Answer 1

Plikoe is confused, I fear. Meteor showers are different from asteroid impacts. Meteor showers are caused by the earth entering a region of debris previously left behind by the tail of a comet as the earth goes round the sun and those tiny particles (the size of grains of sand) entering the earth's upper atmosphere and burning up in it.

Asteroids on the other hand have to be at least 50 metres in size to qualify as an asteroid.

Sports guy (two below me) is passing on out-of-date information about asteroid Apophis. Though it caused a buzz of panic two years ago, further calculations of its orbit have established that there is no possibility of a 2029 impact and that the odds against a 2036 impact are now 45,000 to 1 and against a 2037 impact are now 12 million to 1.

Given that asteroids were not discovered till 1801 (when Giovanni Piazzi found 1 Ceres from an observatory in Palermo, Sicily) and that telescopes were not invented in biblical times, it is difficult to see how any of the many contributors who compiled the Bible could possibly have encoded anything about asteroids, when the concept was completely unknown to them.

The term asteroid was not even coined till 1802 (by Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of Uranus) and as far as ancient astronomers knew there were only 8 objects in our system: the earth and 7 planets going around it (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn). It was not till 1610 and Galileo's discovery of the largest 4 moons of Jupiter that anyone realised that there were other objects out there that we didn't yet know about.

So think about it logicallyl How could ancient peoples have any foreknowledge of asteroid impacts? If asteroids were beyond their knowledge and experience? This applies both to the Mayan Calendar belief that there will be an impact in 2012 and the Biblical code assertion of an impact in 2007, It doesn't make any sense,

So I will leave the last word with Woody Guthrie:

Oh it takes a worried man to sing a worried song!
Yes it takes a worried man to sing a worried song!
Yes it takes a worried man to sing a worried song!
I am worried now but I won't be worried long.

By which I mean ,,, that if you have a predisposition to worry, you will always find something to feed that worry, but if your rational mind can see that there is no basis for you to worry, you can perhaps come to free yourself of the phobias involved!

Answer 2

Do not worry. When 2008 comes and no comet or asteroid has hit Earth, you can look back on this and laugh. And maybe be a bit wiser about listening to crazy people who say nonsense like what you have heard.

Answer 3

You needn't worry too much about this... It is indeed very likely that an asteroid (or quite a lot of them, actually) will hit the earth in 2007 : it happens all the time ! But as they are too small, they burn completely as they enter our atmosphere and never hit the surface. So you shouldn't be afraid about this. If you are lucky, you may see them (as a "falling star"), but chances are that you will not even notice...

Answer 4

This is no asteroid hitting in 2007.

However, an asteroid (300x400 meters) will come close to in 2029. Depending on how it changes courses due to Earth's gravatational pull it might come back and hit Earth in 2036.

Answer 5

Scientist say that a asteroid will come in 32 years I think below our communication satilites but won't hit but in seven years it will come back and depending on how the earths gravity affected it, it might hit or it might miss I think there is a 1/1000 chance it will hit

Answer 6

Here's an official list of all comets and/or meteoroids that will approach Earth in 2007. The last figure you see, the one on the far right, is the miss distance and is how much farther away from Earth the object will be than the moon. For instance, the first one shows 11.3 times the Earth-moon distance. Farther down the list you'll see the object that will come closest to us in 2007. It's "only" going to be 5 times the Earth-moon distance, but that works out to about 1.9-million kilometers.

2007-Jan-02 0.0291 11.3
2007-Jan-04 0.0330 12.9
2007-Jan-09 0.1841 71.7
2007-Jan-09 0.0735 28.6
2007-Jan-10 0.0521 20.3
2007-Jan-16 0.1218 47.4
2007-Jan-19 0.1051 40.9
2007-Jan-21 0.0679 26.4
2007-Jan-21 0.1982 77.1
2007-Jan-23 0.1741 67.7
2007-Jan-27 0.1237 48.2
2007-Jan-30 0.1153 44.9
2007-Jan-31 0.0264 10.3
2007-Feb-01 0.0135 5.2
2007-Feb-04 0.0612 23.8
2007-Feb-07 0.1811 70.5
2007-Feb-14 0.1030 40.1
2007-Feb-16 0.1746 67.9
2007-Feb-17 0.1496 58.2
2007-Mar-07 0.1646 64.1
2007-Mar-07 0.1139 44.3
2007-Mar-08 0.1507 58.7
2007-Mar-11 0.0722 28.1
2007-Mar-12 0.1825 71.0
2007-Mar-12 0.0823 32.0
2007-Mar-14 0.1083 42.1
2007-Mar-14 0.1082 42.1
2007-Mar-18 0.1992 77.5
2007-Mar-18 0.1838 71.5
2007-Mar-21 0.1059 41.2
2007-Mar-22 0.1028 40.0
2007-Mar-23 0.0899 35.0
2007-Mar-31 0.0227 8.8
2007-Apr-05 0.1602 62.3
2007-Apr-08 0.1580 61.5
2007-Apr-11 0.1476 57.4
2007-Apr-15 0.1807 70.3
2007-Apr-16 0.1465 57.0
2007-Apr-17 0.1042 40.5
2007-Apr-17 0.1874 72.9
2007-Apr-20 0.1183 46.0
2007-Apr-21 0.1940 75.5
2007-Apr-25 0.1860 72.4
2007-Apr-27 0.1944 75.7
2007-Apr-30 0.0820 31.9
2007-Apr-30 0.1744 67.9
2007-May-05 0.1726 67.2
2007-May-07 0.0633 24.6
2007-May-08 0.0714 27.8
2007-May-09 0.1963 76.4
2007-May-09 0.0795 30.9
2007-May-09 0.1237 48.1
2007-May-15 0.1885 73.4
2007-May-19 0.1236 48.1
2007-May-22 0.0617 24.0
2007-May-23 0.0891 34.7
2007-May-25 0.1458 56.7
2007-May-26 0.1651 64.2
2007-May-27 0.1873 72.9
2007-May-30 0.1453 56.6
2007-Jun-05 0.1738 67.6
2007-Jun-06 0.0773 30.1
2007-Jun-18 0.0591 23.0
2007-Jun-18 0.0852 33.1
2007-Jun-26 0.0614 23.9
2007-Jun-28 0.1572 61.2
2007-Jun-28 0.1346 52.4

As for worrying about what turns up in the so-called Bible Code, some professional statisticians have taken lots of other books, like Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," and John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" and found all kinds of predictions. I wouldn't put a whole lot of faith in any of these kinds of predictions.

Answer 7

There is no Bible code ! There will be no asteroid in 2007. I guarentee you will be able to live your young and confused life another year.

Answer 8

Send me all your money, I can stop the asteroid if I get enough funding. (and take a nice vacation to Tahiti as well)

Answer 9

Astronomers Say not until 2014 or 2020 ,haven't you been reading the news?

Answer 10

No one can predict the future with any certainty. Live your life and forget the doomsday stuff.