simulated meteor strike

[Blow]

A few weeks back a meteor passed the earth pretty close, i was searching a bit more information about meteors, and found out that in 2029 there will be a meteor passing the earth with 42.000 km , sounds a huge distance but you will be able to see it with your eyes (no instruments needed).

Then i found a very nice movie what would happen if a meteor would hit the earth, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8clz-jhxs check that out to find out what will happen.

Im interested in more of these kind of clips, so if you have any more of those pm them to me or paste them in here.

 

[Gamah]

isn't that the moon?

 

[Blow]

isn't that the moon?

In begin it looks like the moon, but it is a meteor

 

[pikeh]

dosent this just scare the living piss outta everyone? hate stuff like this that shadow passing over the city is really creepy

 

[Cylian]

time to refill that fire-extinguisher ...now where did I put it ?

 

[old.Tohtori]

The one that supposedly passes earth at 42kliks, should be at a distance that's between th earth and the moon. Now that will look cool.

Sadly, the tail of a meteor isn't that nice. Might be raining other then men that day.

Ofcourse the scientists arn't that sure if it will pass or..well...hit so...dumdidum.

 

[Alan]

Gota love this pic

makes me feel a bit safer anyway

 

[Blow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLUgLXrBo0&mode=related&search=

A real meteor strike, those guys where pretty lucky...

 

[old.Tohtori]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLUgLXrBo0&mode=related&search=

A real meteor strike, those guys where pretty lucky...

A "real meteor strike" as in, an advert for the new toyota truck

 

[DocWolfe]

A "real meteor strike" as in, an advert for the new toyota truck

owned.

 

[Svartmetall]

Not very realistic in terms of impact energy - a body the size of the one they showed hitting Earth would completely resurface the planet, not leave Big Ben standing (with its bell intact, ffs)...with enough velocity something that size could disrupt the structure of the planet altogether.


And the asteroid that's going to near-miss in 2029 is actually very, very scary indeed in astronomical terms. It's the equivalent of you standing at one end of the Sahara desert, a man with a gun at the other end shooting at you, and the bullet shaving one of the hairs off your chin. Coming inside the moon's orbit is an incredibly near near-miss by astronomical standards.

You want to get scared? Look at this:

...that's how close this fucker is going to be - the thicker white line is the range within which it's currently predicted path will take it. For some time there was serious concern that it could hit; and a 400-metre asteroid hitting us would be a major global event.

 

[Chronictank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLUgLXrBo0&mode=related&search=

A real meteor strike, those guys where pretty lucky...

lol, its a tv advert

doh loads beat me to it ><
nerf leaving posts typed in and not pressing send

 

[Chronictank]

Not very realistic in terms of impact energy - a body the size of the one they showed hitting Earth would completely resurface the planet, not leave Big Ben standing (with its bell intact, ffs)...with enough velocity something that size could disrupt the structure of the planet altogether.


And the asteroid that's going to near-miss in 2029 is actually very, very scary indeed in astronomical terms. It's the equivalent of you standing at one end of the Sahara desert, a man with a gun at the other end shooting at you, and the bullet shaving one of the hairs off your chin. Coming inside the moon's orbit is an incredibly near near-miss by astronomical standards.

You want to get scared? Look at this:

...that's how close this fucker is going to be - the thicker white line is the range within which it's currently predicted path will take it. For some time there was serious concern that it could hit; and a 400-metre asteroid hitting us would be a major global event.

death would be instant, ah well we all gota go some time may aswell be in a cool looking fireball effect

 

[Sparx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLUgLXrBo0&mode=related&search=

A real meteor strike, those guys where pretty lucky...

yup its true it is an add

 

[Svartmetall]

death would be instant, ah well we all gota go some time may aswell be in a cool looking fireball effect

Well, you'd most likely die in one of two ways. Either the overpressure from the hypersonic shockwave which would circle the globe very fast would crush and suffocate you, or you'd be killed by impact or fire from falling molten ejecta from the impact site; an impact the size of the one they showed would almost certainly eject enough material to completely cover the planet. Absolutely no life would survive, apart from possibly some of the deep-ocean vent areas and possibly some of the bacterial life inside much of the rock of the Earth's upper crust. The Permian extinction event wiped out 95% of even all marine life, so we came pretty close then (~250 million years ago); there is apparently some evidence to suggest that this was an impact event.

 

[Blow]

But arent they scared that when it will pass in 2029 that the meteor is changing direction and will hit 7-8 years later instead? I heard something like that.

Did not knew it was an advert, bit to good to be true tho.

 

[chretien]

This is a great site that discusses the destruction of the earth by various means. It's not entirely serious but the science is spot on.

 

[Bahumat]

i gave up caring about these things, quite a few years back something was supposed to hit us directly but it was miles off. who knows what the future holds but there's sod all i can do about meteor's.

if it happens, it will be one hell of a ride!

 

[Svartmetall]

But arent they scared that when it will pass in 2029 that the meteor is changing direction and will hit 7-8 years later instead? I heard something like that.

Did not knew it was an advert, bit to good to be true tho.

There's nothing to make it change direction, though, since it's already inside the solar system's gravity well, and the forces acting on it (mainly the Sun's gravity, but also small influences from the Earth and its moon) are known and have been taken into account when calculating its trajectory now. If you mean changing its path so it might hit the next time it passes through the system, I'm not sure if it even will; often asteroids that pass this close have their orbits so pertrubed by Jupiter and the Sun that they are kicked out of the system altogether and head off into true interstellar space.

Plus, if we haven't managed to get off this fuckin' rock by the time it comes around again then we deserve to be made extinct

 

[Lamp]

Awesome video. I'm fascinated by this kind of stuff.

Did anyone notice in the video that GOA's office was still operational ?

 

[Huntingtons]

madkaizer would get lucky then!

 

[Hansmoleman]

you would hope in 23 years time if we are about to be destroyed they could do something about it

 

[Sharaft]

MY MUSCELS SAVES ME.. ill jus as Captain Hero do and punch the fireball of d00000m into the fiery hell of sun!!!

:worthy: cartoons!!

 

[Svartmetall]

Gamma-Ray Burst is a definite possibility, those things are totally inimical to all life within a huge radius (we're talking hundreds or even thousands of light-years' radius); fortunately there aren't any obvious candidates for that near enough to be a serious threat.

However, at some point in the near future - astronomically speaking, i.e. anywhere between now and 10,000 years' time - the nearby (7,500 light years, just across the road...astronomically speaking) star Eta Carinae will go supernova, or even hypernova. Now that's going to be spectacular as fuck, it will be clearly visible in daylight, and it will affect things here (although mainly just stuff like satellites etc, due to the massive amounts of gamma rays produced by a supernova).

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/milan_eta_carinae_000307.html

This is what the star looks like right now. As you can see, it's not a happy bunny at all...

 

[Lamp]

This is what the star looks like right now. As you can see, it's not a happy bunny at all...

Actually, no. That's what the star looked like x years ago, where "x" is the amount of light years the star is from earth. The light emitting from that picture is millions of years old. The distance light travels in one year is known as a light year. Its a VAST distance. Millions of light years are beyond comprehension in earthly terms.

 

[Blow]

Does anyone know the name of that meteor that will pass the earth in 2029 , i know that a part of the name has the year that its first spotted in it.

 

[Lamp]

Does anyone know the name of that meteor that will pass the earth in 2029 , i know that a part of the name has the year that its first spotted in it.

Susan

 

[elisera]

It is called 2004 MN4

 

[Svartmetall]

Actually, no. That's what the star looked like x years ago, where "x" is the amount of light years the star is from earth...

Don't nit-pick

But yes, of course, you're right - what we see today is how it looked (in the case of something 7,500 light years away) 7,500 years ago. In terms of how it affects us, since no effect travels faster than light, it's the same thing in the end.

 

[Svartmetall]

It is called 2004 MN4

You can tell it was named by someone who wears a pocket protector, can't you.

If a DAOC player had named it it would have been called DOOOOOOMBRINGER or something.



*infiltrates NASA to ensure a more entertaining naming policy for celestial objects in future*