"To avert a possible catastrophe this time set for February 2013 scientists suggest confronting asteroid 2012 DA14 with either paint or big guns. The stickler is that time has long run out to build a spaceship to carry out the operation.
NASA's data shows the 60-meter asteroid, spotted by Spanish stargazers in February, will whistle by Earth in 11 months. Its trajectory will bring it within a hairs breadth of our planet, raising fears of a possible collision.
The asteroid, known as DA14, will pass by our planet in February 2013 at a distance of under 27,000 km (16,700 miles). This is closer than the geosynchronous orbit of some satellites."
I'm going to start remote connection starting now. The more I find out the better the anchor will get. Im going to try for stasis field. This one does an orbit so similar to a fan just on a larger scale. Anyone want to join me?
"Spaceship impossible?
Whatever the mission, building a spaceship to deal with 2012 DA14 will take two years at least.
The asteroid has proven a bitter discovery. It has been circling in orbit for three years already, crossing Earths path several times, says space analyst Sergey Naroenkov from the Russian Academy of Sciences. It seems that spotting danger from outer space is still the area where mere chance reigns, while asteroid defense systems exist only in drafts.
Still, prospects of meeting 2012 DA14 are not all doom and gloom.
The asteroid may split into pieces entering the atmosphere. In this case, most part of it will never reach the planets surface, remarks Dunham.
But if the entire asteroid is to crash into the planet, the impact will be as hard as in the Tunguska blast, which in 1908 knocked down trees over a total area of 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles) in Siberia. This is almost the size of Luxembourg. In todays case, the destination of the asteroid is yet to be determined."
-- Edited by Shirak on Sunday 4th of March 2012 10:12:07 PM
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How cool would it be to freeze it like we do with the windmill or radiometer (Vacuum conditions)and the world struggles to understand why it just all of a sudden stopped heheh.
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Yeah, I wonder what an object frozen in space would be like, since most objects out there are moving very fast? If it were frozen, It could certainly be visited:)
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