Does anyone know what is the name of that comet or asteroid that is on a crash course to Earth?

Question

If you do, what is the estimated date of impact?

Answer 1

The asteroid that several are talking about name is Apophis. It is going to make it's orbit near Earth again in 2036. Here is a fairly good link which will explain thing a bit better.

http://www.space.com/news/051103_asteroid_apophis.html

Answer 2

Gene L is talking complete an utter garbage.

There are a number of outfits all over the world monitoring asteroids for the spacewatch program. Do you really think they could all be kept quiet about this.

NASA publishes all the close-approach data from the Spacewatch program on its website, and nothing, I repeat NOTHING, is going to impact Earth in the foreseeable future.

And a "crash course " is a complete misnomer showing that you and these people know nothing. The asteroids under question are in orbits that cross or come close to Earth's orbit. Those orbits are predictable into the far future. That is not to say that some may be perturbed by other bodies (Jupiter) changing their orbits down the road a little.

No asteroid comes straight at us. Nothing in space moves like that. Everthing in the Solar System is in gravitational influence of either the sun, or in the case of moons, their parent planet. Asteroids orbit the sun, just like Earth.

Answer 3

Risk of asteroid wiping out Earth is very small, scientists say

09:55 PM CST on Thursday, March 8, 2007

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON – The risk that an asteroid capable of wiping out humanity will crash into Earth is minuscule, new calculations suggest, but the chances of a smaller one destroying a city or setting off a catastrophic tsunami remain unclear and may be higher than previous estimates.

The calculations were presented at a four-day meeting in Washington this week, leading scores of scientists present to conclude that NASA needs to move aggressively to meet a congressional deadline for identifying most of the potentially hazardous smaller asteroids and to develop ways to deflect them if they home in on Earth.

Answer 4

Currently (as of 2-4-2007), I don't believe there are any significantly large objects on collision course with the Earth. If there were, I almost certainly would have read about it on space.com. A number of objects have been given relatively high chances of a collision in the past, but they were all ruled out through further observations of their orbits.

Answer 5

It passed by us roughly a million miles away on Friday night. If you had a really good telescope you might have seen it from the California coastline.

For more specific information visit Space dot Com.

Answer 6

Ok Rodrigo, you asked the question...
I'll give you the answer based on recently obtained knowledge and information.

The information I have is not intended for public consumption...
not at this time anyway and I put myself at risk for posting it.
I posted this in a recent query that someone proposed and I'll post it here...
read it....believe it, don't believe it...it's entirely up to you.

The following is information I accidently came across not too long ago, and refers to an upcoming "event" that's about to take place in just a few short years.
I ask that you not inquire regarding my source of this information.

NASA and the ESA is rushing certain projects with completion dates before the expected "event' in order to ready escape ships to carry a chosen group of scientists and other individuals from parts of the world to a destination I have not been privy to.

As others around the world are successfully beginning to put the puzzle pieces of these particular NASA projects together and are coming up with inexplicable as well as puzzling conclusions, there appears to be certain NASA/ESA projects culminating around the time of the event date leaving not much for the imagination or human logic to figure out regarding just what is going on behind the secretive walls of certain government agencies.

What NASA refers to as a "solar storm" around that time in order to deflect suspicious public investigations, belies the real truth and extent of the calamity which is about to occur at that time.

THE EVENT
A recently predicted direct collision by a yet to be publicly announced one hundred twenty-five mile wide (125mi/201km) Asteroid which will smash directly into the Earth in April, 2011 causing it to move out of Earth orbit and slowly burn up and disintegrate as Earth's new path sends it closer towards the Sun where eventually it will be destroyed, is being withheld to public information sources.
As of the end of 2004, astronomers had discovered more than two thirds of the larger Near Earth Asteroids (diameter greater than 1 km)...and have withheld from public announcement the prediction on this particular event in order to avoid certain wide-spread panic throughout the world.
The code name for this TS/Crypto sensitive cataclysmic Asteroid event is "Nemesis-41" named for the predicted date (month:4 / year:2011) of impact rather than the date of discovery which is usually applied to Asteroids.
(NOTE: it is a high probability that this Answer will be deleted at any time once NASA and/or government officials become aware of it's existence.)

Obviously releasing this to the public would serve no purpose except initiation of a world-wide panic...
Announcements released to the press stating "The risk of a large Asteroid or Comet colliding with and destroying the planet Earth is very small." would follow normal procedure in a situation where avoiding panic would be of a major priority.
After all, what other choice do they have?

Answer 7

no name yet given

Collision Date 2036

Collision Chances 1 out of 25,000

No worries man

Answer 8

There is none. Last I heard, one may come close in 2880, but it's too early to tell. Find something else to worry about.