Asteroid 2036 info?

**goro** · February 14, 2011, 01:41 AM

I heard this from a friend of mine yesterday.Its supposed to hit earth in 2036.Can anyone tell me how much of it is true and give some information on it?

**Gromovnik** · February 14, 2011, 02:17 AM

I think you're talking about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
So the odds are 1:250000 at the moment, which I suppose is not too bad.

**goro** · February 14, 2011, 03:38 AM

i thought it would be more dangerous.these odds look good indeed

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 14, 2011, 03:43 AM

We will have tech like a force field to protect us from these things.Like reversing our magnetic pull and directing it backwards.Im working on this
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**Vanoi** · February 14, 2011, 06:18 AM

Doesn't Russia have some great plan to save us all from this?

**Holger Danske** · February 17, 2011, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by Mallard

Doesn't Russia have some great plan to save us all from this?

It's called Siberia...

**Manuel I Komnenos** · February 14, 2011, 06:32 AM

I think this represents a much smaller danger than that of the asteroids we haven't seen and monitored yet.
Apophis is well known and is being monitored for years, I don't think it represents a real danger. Besides, we got all the needed time to find a way to change its course.

**Vagn** · February 15, 2011, 04:20 PM

It's really nothing to worry about.
Really.

**Nimthill** · February 15, 2011, 04:42 PM

You will die multiple times of cancer before that thing gets even close to hitting us. Statistically.

**Elfdude** · February 15, 2011, 06:18 PM

The odds of it hitting us will go down as time passes as well. The margin for error in calculating its trajectory will plummet as it gets closer.

**(s)AINT** · February 15, 2011, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Mallard

Doesn't Russia have some great plan to save us all from this?

Yeah it's land...

**Nyxos** · February 16, 2011, 04:12 PM

Anyway, we'll just send Bruce Willis, he knows the drill.

**Tuor** · February 16, 2011, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Nyxos

Anyway, we'll just send Bruce Willis, he knows the drill.

What's really funny is that there is a pun within that joke.

**Achea** · February 16, 2011, 09:42 PM

Interesting.

**Godfrey I of Leuven** · February 17, 2011, 01:17 PM

Too bad it's not happening though.

**mikoli** · February 23, 2011, 04:30 AM

Check out this funny video about Apophis

**Nyxos** · February 23, 2011, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by ronicolman

What im asking is i want to know your comment and thoughts on hat you have about this. now this asteroid is not 100% sure that its gonna hit but there is a 100% chance it will come so close that it will hit or at least become visible to the naked eye.

actually, its more like 0% chances it hits the earth, and I doubt we will be seeing such a small object from earth.