WE'RE ALL DOOMED !

[vanner]

For those who may be interested.

Shoud be a fair old show in the sky early September 2004

Be sure to click the ">>" button to see the orbits of the earth and the
asteroid come within 0.014 AU's !...............Ruddy Close !!

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=4179

[christina]

Thanks Vanner for that.
I enjoyed playing with that.
A pity the asteroid wasn't coming a bit closer though , I might be able
to buy a couple of tickets for the ride out of here and give them to my
neighbours.

;)

[Mistyeyeddreamer]

Gulp!! :o

You know what is really scary? Half the time asteroids aren't detected until they've actually passed us by!! :o Let's hope there are no gigantic solar flares that may cause the solar wind to deflect it our way :o

Btw, in May there will be two comets, both visible at the same time and in the same part of the sky. Something very, very rarely seen, if ever! We've had two comets in the same year but never visible at the same time.

Misty