Not worried. A: it should be a near miss. B: it's a small asteroid.

I'm more concerned with absolutes; Economic collapse or the solar flares. Pick one. The asteroid is a sideshow. It will get more attention than either of those, the news will profile some preppers who will look bad and discredit the movement when it doesn't happen.

You think the News will come to my place when it hits the fan with the Collapse of the Dollar or the grid. Nope. They don't want people getting ready. Mind you it would be too late and they would have to admit that they screwed up. Like that will happpen. LOL

it will miss however its big enough to do a hell of a lot of damage and blot out the sun for a year...

Any science to back that up or just a movie you've seen?

Any science to back that up or just a movie you've seen?

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I posted the above article not to insult, but to distract you from the rest of what I write in this post. You see, you clearly didn't read the whole link, you just looked at the title and the picture and decided in your infinate scientific wisdom gained through 8th Grade Physics, that it probably wouldn't do any damage anyway.

If you'd have actually read through the entire article instead of throwing on a quick, idiotic, rude comment ("just a movie you've seen") you'd would have seen in the last paragraph "But theories are that if the entire asteroid did 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." You obviously just wanted to throw out a comment and get straight back to your favorite website and homepage, www.girlsinyogapants.com.

So how is someone with as small an intellect as mine suppose to explain what I read to the Mensa Champion of 2009. I'd draw a picture, but if you put a pen in my hand all i draw are lady bits. People says it's a curse, my mum says I'm 'gifted' and 'very special'. OK, so your down on Church St in Toronto picking up a couple of hookers and this small, 60 m, celestial object strikes Windsor at 17,000 mph. (Anyone whose been to Windsor is cheering now!!!) The resulting blast would incinerate you and the two toothless crones you just gave $20 a piece to all the way over in Toronto. At the very least you'd be picking shards of rock out of you face.

Now of course that is just a scientific 'theory' not 'fact' because they have no real way of judging the size of the body that struck Tunguska. They estimate it was as least as big as Susan Boyle, but of course no where near the size of your immense cranium. It may be you are right and the scientific community are wrong. However, next time you try being a smart arse read the entire article and for future reference if I'm watching a movie, it usually has 'bored housewives' in the title.

Enjoy!

Perhaps I read other articles?

Oh but wait your mighty brain would have thought of that also.

On to the science, if you say this is about the size of the Tungska event, show me the proof that that event blacked out the sun for a year. Now show my how a MISS will black out the sun.

it will miss however its big enough to do a hell of a lot of damage and blot out the sun for a year...

This is your assertion. Not mine. Prove it.

Nice photo, how long does it take you to shave that bean in the morning?

ha ha...thats actually a pic of you Mokon, hence the big M on your forehead....and my acertion was agreeing with you as in 'i agree it will miss' followed by 'i disagree it will do much damage' as you express....it will do a hell of a lot of damage...again, im not saying its the size of the Tunguska event....the article and the scientist say that....not me...you still havn't read the article have you, read the bloody article before commenting.

A few stats from NASA...
As of March 04, 2012, 8776 Near-Earth objects have been discovered.
Some 840 of these NEOs are asteroids with a diameter of approximately 1 kilometer or larger.
Also, 1292 of these NEOs have been classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs).

Given these stats, I doubt that this particular asteroid deserves much serious consideration.

Honestly, blasting asteroids from the sky? I think Hollywood has that topic covered quite well.

I like the paint it. Maybe Martha will offer to help. On a serious note, it's this the type of thing that starts a person prepping in the first case? It's the "what it's" for a lot of things. I guess my tin foil beanie won't help much in any case.

its not just the destructive force of a 'small' asteroid that Mokon downplayed, its what happens after econmically. And this is where, from his previous posts, he clearly does have knowledge. Economically, with a strike on a major city, we would see nothing but a continued downward spiral. Just imagine if this 'small' asteroid hit a city (I won't use New York as a cliched example) like Toronto. Everyone gets a weeks warning and leaves, apart from Mokon who swears it will do him no harm unless it actually comes through his window and hits him on his large, over extended forehead.

The large asteroid that hit the earth some 65,000,000 years ago 'vapourised' everything some 200 miles from the impact site. Compared to the one we are discussing this was huge, some ten miles across I believe (don't quote me on that, thats from memory). If this 'small' asteroid impacted in the center of Toronto, it would decimate it, ie two to four miles from impact vapourised...you could only imagine the destruction. Finacially, how much property is within say ten miles (and thats an underestimate of how far the damage would reach) and whats the value of that property? 1 trillion, 10 trillion...got to be up there. I don't know how it would work, but the insurance companies can't cover that amount of loss...so the banks take a loss on all those mortgages??? how would it work?

Added to this the dust/ash tossed into the air would affect air travel, radio comms and cause a cooling effect on the planet killing off some plant life. Nothern climates would become colder and winters longer, food shortages etc. Again, all having detrimental effects on the economy. Mokon states, and quiet rightly, hes more scared of economic turmoil than a one off deep impact event...well this event would see off the economy as we know it.

I don't think we'll see an impact event in our lifetime of any great magnitude. Although I really don't want to agree with him/ her at the moment, Denob is spot on, if we we're to have an impact event theres no way they could stop it. Just have to grit our teeth and prepare!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/big-solar-storm-packs-small-punch-not-over-000601550.html

Read near the bottom. Last two paras.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_SOLAR_STORM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-03-08-18-47-20

Bit more interesting article. They obliquely mention the threat to the grid and the association concerned with the grid wieghs in. In these articles, in these times of jaundiced news reports, it's not what is said, but what is NOT said.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/report-chance-of-a-catastrophic-solar-storm-is-1-in-8-would-take-down-power-grid-food-transportation-water-utilities-financial-systems_03062012

That article is from a website which also has a bias. Or it is a bit more honest than Yahoo. See the difference in the reportage of the same event? Time to think for yourself. Get mulitple news sources. Don't trust one. Get a group of buddies together and compare notes. Don't trust the news with your or your families safety. Or trust them...I don't care.

just found this ...

"One of the last significant impacts occurred on 30 June 1908, when an asteroid or comet exploded 6.2 miles (10km) above a secluded forest in Tunguska, Siberia, flattening trees over an area of 625 sq miles (1600 sq km), which surprisingly few people cared about at the time due to the remoteness of the region and the fact that there seem to have been no casualties.

Calculations suggest that if it had landed 4 hours and 47 minutes later, it would have hit St Petersburg(1), in which case people might have cared a lot, particularly as it was rather a delicate time in Russian history. According to estimates, such an airburst occurring over New York would cost $1.19tn to insurers in property damage, not to mention causing approximately 3.2 million fatalities and 3.76 million injuries."

Damd, I knew I threw that rock too soon. 😈

a 60 meter asteriod might be 30 meters wide, depending on the composition, after passing through the atmosphere. here is some info i found.

"A 10-meter body typically has the kinetic energy of about five nuclear warheads of the size dropped on Hiroshima, however, and the shock wave it creates can do considerable damage even if nothing but comparatively small fragments survive to reach the ground. Many fragments of a 10-meter iron meteoroid will reach the ground. The only well-studied example of such a fall in recent times took place in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains of eastern Siberia on February 12, 1947. About 150 US tons of fragments reached the ground, the largest intact fragment weighing 3,839 pounds. The fragments covered an area of about 1 x 2 kilometers (0.6 x 1.2 miles), within which there were 102 craters greater than 1 meter in diameter, the largest of them 26.5 meters (87 feet), and about 100 more smaller craters. If this small iron meteoroid had landed in a city, it obviously would have created quite a stir."