06:42, 12th October

[rich p]

T'is a Thursday.
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In that case, my world definitely won't be moving...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Incoming!

Is it an asteroid?

Don't worry. Kim Jong-Un will blow us all up before then.

 

[MikeG]

Here is what the astronomers and astro-physicists say about it:

The house-sized asteroid was discovered on Oct. 4, 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. Week later, it gave Earth a close shave when it passed the planet at the distance of 0.247 LD (lunar distance), or 94,800 km. 2012 TC4 is an elongated and rapidly rotating object and has been known to make many close approaches to Earth in the past. Now, the scientists try to determine the exact path of 2017 fly-by and the probability of a possible impact.

"It has a 0.00055% cumulative chance that it will hit," Györgyey-Ries said. "The fact that the MOID [minimum orbit intersection distance] is only 0.079 LD flags it as a possible impactor. However it is just the smallest possible distance between the orbits."

"There is one in a million chance that it could hit us," Detlef Koschny, head of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Segment in the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme office at ESA, told astrowatch.net. He also tried to estimate the exact size of the celestial body. "The size was estimated from the brightness, but we don't know the reflectivity. So it could be smaller or larger, assume from 10 m to 40 m. A 40 m iron object would go through the atmosphere and make a crater; a 10 m rocky object would be hardly noticed."

From here.

 

[sight-pin]

According to this It should miss us by 0.1 LD

http://www.spaceweather.com/

 

[subaqua]

I'm prepared. I still have a huge supply of tinned pilchards under the stairs from my preparations before the last Miners' Strike.

rebadge them cornish sardines and you could sell them to hipsters......

 

[Drago]

We'll be safe. Bruce Willis and President Morgan Freeman will save us!

 

[subaqua]

We'll be safe. Bruce Willis and President Morgan Freeman will save us!

As long as they don't have Aerosmith crooning the soundtrack ......

 

[Welsh wheels]

Getting a spot of shut-eye, what.

 

[biggs682]

What will you be doing?

Well being honest 6.42 am is close to my first am visit to the loo so i could be ...................

 

[NorthernDave]

We'll be safe. Bruce Willis and President Morgan Freeman will save us!

Sadly that was a work of fiction - our only hope is actually Emma Willis and Martin Freeman...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

S'alright folks. Theresa's got it covered. Second on her list after Brexit.

 

[GM]

I'm prepared.

So that's what you've been doing in your loft, building your own nuclear fall out shelter!

 

[Venod]

But probably still having to lie sideways

So we can't believe a word you say,

 

[slowmotion]

So that's what you've been doing in your loft, building your own nuclear fall out shelter!

It's part of my cunning plan. They always think you will be cowering underground.....

 

[Saluki]

I will be drinking coffee and eating breakfast, having got home from my pre-work walk with the dog.