Is there really a huge meteor about to hit planet earth on 2015 or so?????? are we doom??? should i pray more?
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I had heard 2029.  You should be laid by then.
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No.\n\nOn average one enters the earth atmosphere every minute.\nYou need to be stood in the right place at the right time looking in the right direction.\n\nYou still get two wishes though.\n\nLook up the next meteor shower on the net you'll love it
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Yes.Very much so.The Bible said the oceans will roar! They shure did on the gulf coast last year,and it's almost hurricane season again! Quick! Send up some prayer arrows!God bless you real good!
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I don't think the science channel said it was going to hit. It said that there was a "chance" that it could hit.\nCurrently the odds are about a 1 in 300 chance of it hitting the earth on march 16 2880.\nHowever since we are talking about almost 900 years in the future it is really hard to predict the asteroids exact path.\nMany things affect the orbit of asteroids (gravity of planets, the solar wind, even the thermal emission of the asteroid itself)\nIt will take many years to measure the path of the asteroid more precisely. and then we will have a better idea of how close it is going to get.\neither way, we are talking 900 years in the future, so there is no need to panic. Even if further calculations show it will hit, we have plenty of time to come up with ways to prevent this.\nso go out lay down in the sun with a nice cool drink, soak up some rays, and worry not about such things.
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We are currently observing 7 objects with a small possibility of hitting us in the near future, and keeping tabs on 14 others that we can't see right now (the sun is in the way).  We also know of 26 objects which we have "lost," but feel that it would be a good idea to find again, just in case.  We also know of another 33 objects that could potentially hit us, but are rather small and would only cause minimal surface damage.\n\nAll in all there are a quite a number of potential impactors right now, we're watching them closly to see if any really will hit us or not.  Obviously this does not count really small things that hit us all the time, just things that are large enough to see in moderate sized telescopes.\n\nJust noticed the source link below mine -- nice to see that Yeomans and Baalke got the JPL site working and up to date again!
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of course there is. ramdom events of shifting meteors, meteoroids, asteroids , and comets make it nearly impossible to tell when one will come our way. but rest assured that the probability is extremely small. if you were to say within the next thousand years then it could happen. the next million it will most likely happen. the only satellites in our solar system that we have to worry about reside in the oort cloud, some as big as texas, and these could conceivably be knocked out of orbit into a collision course, but again i wouldn't worry. the thing that would most likely happen would be a rougue comet or meteor from somewhere outside of local space to come careening in our direction stirring up all sorts of havoc along the way. does that answer your question?
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Yes, I do because Earth is not a closed system. If it were, meteorites would never hit.  I have an interesting comparison (to me at least)  about comets "seeding" the earth....... have you ever noticed that earth resembles an "egg" and comets resemble sperm?  they have heads & tails like sperm...... and the term panspermia......... just a thought.......
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Mayan and Egyptian prophecies, which have been pretty accurate so far, state that in 2012 there will be a huge devastation, one in which the earth has encountered many times before.  There is suppose to be a polar shift followed by a comet. It is suppose to devestate the human race and leave very few to pick up the peices.  Not necessarily something you could prepare for, but at least if it started up you could be mentally prepared.  But who knows, there are many prophecies about worldly devastations.
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the article from 40 years ago must have been wrong, or more likely more accurate observations revealed that the asteroid posed no danger to earth. The only asteroid that "MIGHT" hit the earth that is known of is the asteroid discovered in 2004 and named Apophis. it will come very close to earth in 2029, so close that it might be pulled into an orbit that will hit the earth on its next approach in 2036\n\nhowever we will not know for sure until we get more accurate measurements of its orbit, probably not till its approach in 2029.\n\nSo don't worry about it, by then we should be able to deflect it, if it indeed will be on a collision course.
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They realise they should have turned right at Warsaw.\n\nSeriously, it would result in enormous climate changes, tectonic plates could be affected resulting in earthquakes, harmful radiation from the sun could seep through - the Earths magnetic field behaves like a shield, hence the northern lights. \n\nPolarity changes have happened before on Earth and scientists believe we are overdue for another one.\n\nSo, something else to add to the list of 'Armageddons' we seem to have stacking up against us. No point worrying really, if one catastrophe doesn't get you, then another one will!
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The Atheists wouldn't bother to tell us because they don't believe anything happens to our souls after death.\n\nOf course I would be upset if I find out that someone else knows of a catastrophic event that's about to happen that I'm is not prepared for but COULD BE if the person was only concerned enough to let me know.\n\nI refer to the rapture as catastrophic because of the events that will happen on earth as us Christians are all raptured out of here.  It will be the most catastrophic global event to date.  Other than the Great Flood that only Noah & his family survived.  Speaking of Noah, I bet all those who laughed at him were pretty upset when the rain started falling.  It hadn't rained until that time.  Again - they had been warned about something they had never seen and had no idea how to imagine and their lack of faith caused their destruction.
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we will be hit by an asteroid tomorrow. 1 billion people will burn instantly, the rest will slowly starve as the dust clouds block the sun.\n\nSo please save yourself from this pain and jump off some high building today.
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Ok there are no known meteors that are going to "kill all Earth's life", and I highly doubt you'll be the one to find them while the highly trained astronomers do not. You'll need a very large opening (lens, the big opening at the top) to find meteors that far away. Power (magnification) is not important when the opening is very small. I'm sure you're asking this because of a meteor that is supposedly passing by on the 3rd at the 12th magnitude (you'll need a very good telescope and you can't see it with the naked eye).
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The Earth is already living on borrowed time. Consider this:\n\nWe're overdue for an E.L.E.* caused by an earth-crossing asteroid.  Geologic evidence point to massive bombardments every 12 million years or so, the last big hit was about 11-12 million years.  It is not only highly probable, but an astromonical surety that someday we will again face this threat. Few people realize how many close calls we have had in that last couple of decades.\n\nThen there's the threat of emerging pandemic viruses that might wipe out a great majority of mankind.  Or a disease which bould wipe out our crops or food and animals.  There is the threat of ecological disaster, which the geological records shows happens in cycles of hundreds of thousands of years. We may be plunged into another Ice Age or face massive global warming.\n\nAnd lets not forget the destruction we bring on ourselves from nuclear weapons.  Guess how many times since 1950 that we've been a hair's breath away from utter destruction?  False alarms and warnings, and tensions number around 20+, and these are just the public ones we know about.  Even in post-Cold War era there was that 1995 incident in Russia, and i could go on.\n\nMy point is, the Universe is a hostile place and we have only scratched the surface of how improbable our continued existence is, according to the odds.  We have beaten the odds, but probability has a way of catching uyp to you.
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well not speaking of "the rapture"  the earth has been here for billions of years without us through comets floods volcanos.....  we are going to die out long before the earth does
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Now, just why are you so concerned about what God might, or might not do in the future? Did not Jesus say to stop worrying and to seek first the kingdom and God's righteousness? "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." \n\nIs it necessary for you to know how John's prophecies will work out, or when? Why is the outcome for other people filling your mind when the big issue is, "Can I glorify God today?" If you spend each day considering how to honour and praise God, he will take care of your future. \n\nThe book of Revelation is all about The Big Picture - what's going on back-stage, behind the scenes of this troubled earth. When we're taking part in life we see and understand little, and with frightening speed, it's time for us to leave the stage of earthly life. Revelation comforts believers as they have their eyes lifted up and away, to see how God defeats the powers of darkness. That's his job. Make the most of each day and trust in God for the future. Now, why don't you turn to Matthew chapter 5 and get your feet back on terra firma?
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Black hole is not possible because our sun is not the right size.\n\nThe world will "end" (as in, be physically destroyed, not the Coming of Christ one--that is a spiritual issue, not to be confused with science.  And I'm not talking about humanity scr-wing itself over with pollution), with when the sun is dying and starts to increase in size.  Forgot if it's rapid or not, regardless, everything on the surface will be deep-fried like a box of pop corn chicken from KFC before it is engulfed by the sun.\n\nA possibility of a meteor striking us is out there.  Not immediately in our lifetimes--check out NASA's website for close to Earth objects; they keep tabs on this stuff.  I mean, they want their paycheck next week, too.