Is it true that in 2037 a menater is going to hit the earth and kill everyone?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean "meteor"...

No, it is not true that a meteor will hit the earth in 2037. Scientists occasionally identify asteroids on near-intersect courses -- but they're not currently tracking any that they actually expect to hit.

I just googled a bit, and found a Washington Post article that goes into detail about the effort to track near-earth asteroids. Specifically, it mentions something called Asteroid 2004 MN4, which is expected to make several near passes to earth -- including one in 2037.

I will add that the threat of asteroid impacts is not simply Christian propaganda. It's a real (although low-percentage) threat. It's enough of a threat that NASA is developing programs to better monitor near-earth asteroids -- so that none of them catches us by surprise.

Answer 2

Gloom and doom rumours almost always exaggerate

(1) the size of the object that may perhaps hit us.
(2) the scale of the damage if it does hit us
(3) how likely it is that it will in fact hit us.

and they hardly ever mention the name of the object or get the kind of object it is right, so that you can look it up ans see for yourself what the true picture is.

I have to take it that the object in question is the asteroid 99942 Apophis as it is the one getting the publicity and 2037 was a possible date mentioned for when it might be on a collision course,

It is in fact only 320 metres long. Whilst that is big enough to cause considerable damage over thousands of square kilometres, it would not be big enough to "kill everyone", nor would it be an extinction event for the planet,

Yet its size is reported in questions on Yahoo Answers as "colossal", "as big as Texas", "almost as big as America" or "a third the size of the moon"! Despite the fact that there are NO asteroids of that size! The mass of the entire asteroid belt (some 350,000 asteroids!) is no more than 4% of the mass of the Moon.

Although there was initial concern at Christmas 2004 that Apophis might come close to earth in 2029, further observations and recalculation of of its orbit say there is now no possibility of collision in 2029.

As of October 19, 2006 the impact probability for April 13, 2036 is estimated at 1 in 45,000. An additional impact date in 2037 has been identified, however the impact probability for that encounter is 1 in 12.3 million.

Curious how a 1 in 12,3 million chance becomes a racing certainty once the rumour-mongers get hold of the facts, isn't it?

And by the way the object is named after the Egyptian God, Apep (the Destroyer) (Apophis in Greek) not the character from Stargate SG-1. The character from Stargate SG-1 is also named after the God, it is that way around.

Apophis the God dwells in the eternal darkness of the Duat (underworld) and tries to destroy the Sun during its nightly passage. Now we all know that that is a myth, don't we? It seems we don't all yet know that "it is going to hit us", "we are all going to die" and "it will be the end of the world" are myths as well ...!

Answer 3

Well, that's a good question.

Nope , sorry there is no scheduled arrival in 2037 - or at least not very likely, there is a near miss scheduled in April of 2036 and again in April of 2037, from an object called Apophis (after the bad-guy from Stargate SG1). It will be a VERY close miss though, the asteroid will probably be able to be seen by just looking up into the night sky the day it passes.

Actually, meteors hit the planet EVERY day. Most of the meteors are very small, (the size of grains of sand and dust). Bigger meteors also hit the Earth but the larger the meteor is the less likely you will find it in the area around the Earth.

Bigger meteors and other space junk near the Earth are being tracked by NASA and other organizations , these are called appropriately enough, Near Earth Objects. Basically started in the 1990's these programs have found dozens of meteors that could strike the Earth. So far nobody has found an asteroid or meteor that for sure WILL hit the Earth.

The list of all the things we KNOW about is at the link below. It's always possible there is a rock out there with our name on it , that we haven't found - yet.

List of asteroids/meteors near Earth : http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

You can think of it like this..by saying what are the odds of being bitten by a bug. On average, it doesn't happen very often, but if you go to a picnic or a park in summertime it could happen several times in one day - you may not even notice.

Over a long period of time (years or decades) it's not IF you are going to get stung by a bee or a bug, but how many times that's going to happen.

It's the same thing with meteors , on average a big meteor hits the Earth once every 100 to 200 years. The last time was in 1908 in Tungusta, Russia/Siberia. The comet/meteor broke up before it hit the surface of the Earth but the blast wave snapped trees for hundreds of miles in most directions.

Nobody knows if anyone died because it occured in the middle of a big frozen tundra/swamp.

Overall the risk of impacts is more or less constant - someone once compared it to "Living on a shooting range....Eventually, your gonna get shot."

It doesn't as frequently as it used to because the Earth and other planets have "cleared" a path through space long ago. Think of the planets like small vaccum cleaners going around the sun in circles - vaccuming their path over and over again. It takes a long time but they eventually clear most of the areas in the room that they travel near.

Answer 4

Did you mean minotaur? No, as they are strictly mythological creatures. Or maybe you meant a maneater, like a lion or bear. Those are constellations and quite unlikely to hit the Earth. A monitor may hit earth, as the space station will probably be scrapped by 2037 and debris is pulled closer and closer by gravity until it falls out of orbit and drops to the surface.

However, and I don't wish to alarm you my dear, I have heard that a meteor is going to hit the Earth in 2037. And it is going to kill everyone.

Answer 5

Menater

Answer 6

A meteor could hit earth in 2029, or an asteroid (I get the two confused). The likelyhood of that happening is very small, though, but it could come back around 2036 or 2037 and even that is not very likely. Most likely, no, but there is a very slim chance it could happen.

Answer 7

Do you mean METEOR!

It would seem, that something is 'tugging' at the planet Uranus and also Planet Neptune! found on the 30th dec 1983, which! may I add is imformation found 24 years today!! (as I live in Australia) so we are on the 30th dec, as I write this...

It is called 'Planet X'...and is found also in the Bible...called 'Wormwood'....and every thing that was said in the Bible, so far! has come true.
You can read a little of it in Revelation Chap 8.. verses 10-11.

Planet X is what science call's it!
Wormwood is what the Bible calls it!
vrse:11 ''the name of the star is wormwood''.......so the rest is up to you!...but I will tell you this:if you do not believe,then you
maybe need to find the truth! o.k.

Answer 8

What the heck is a menater?

Answer 9

Oh, no! Not a menater!!! Anything but that!!! No! Stop!! Aaaugghh!!

Answer 10

It is a very horrific possibility, and if it did, the Earth would be completely destroyed with all life on it. Lets pray and hope it never happeneds, but should it ever happen, our Earth would be smashed into millions of pieces with no hope of survival !