Mighty Big Asteroid Heading Our Way !!

bruce will save us.

Indeed he might but in the meantime for those of you who may be planning your holidays here is the full list of likely events which may disrupt your plans somewhat............

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

In some cases, investigations into potential impacts are conducted for more than 100 years into the future. Currently, there are two well-observed objects for which long-term analyses have been carried out.
1. Asteroid (29075) 1950 DA, has a significant possibility of impact on March 16, 2880. A careful computation of the impact probability, which is less than 0.33%, is challenging because the orientation of its spin pole is poorly known. Giorgini et al. (Science, Vol. 296. no. 5565, pp. 132 - 136, 2002) analyzed this object's motion, which is discussed here:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/1950da

2. The second object, (101955) 1999 RQ36, currently has non-zero impact probabilities on numerous occasions during the years after 2165. This is analyzed in a paper published by Milani et al. (Icarus, Vol. 203, pp. 460-471, 2009), which is available as here:


Looks like we got a few years to plan ahead Think I"ll steer clear of flying in a 380 at the moment though.!!!

Marky wrote:bruce will save us.

Marky, so you decided to post the real you.....not a bit like I imagined.

Who cares if we are bleeding well doomed?