Is a comet really going to hit the Earth on May 25?
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There is a comet that is visible now and will be passing reasonable near Earth (a few million miles away) about that time, but no, no comet is going to hit the Earth any time soon.
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I think the next one will be on July 28, called Delta Aquarid (these are called after the constellations from which they appear to emanate). But the better, more loaded ones are the Perseids on August 13 and Geminids on December 14 - my personal favourites :) And of course, they come about the same time every year, you simply have to check astronomy sites for the peak - when to see the most of the meteors.\n\nDon't worry, they don't cause destruction, except for the fragmentation of these rocky fragments and their burning as they enter the earth's atmosphere. Perhaps you are more familiar with the term "shooting star" - well, a meteor shower is just many of those together, that's why it's called a "shower". Check out the link I wrote as source to understand the jargon better.\n\nIf you're thinking about doomsday meteors or asteroids like the ones in Deep Impact and Independence Day, those are totally different - they're not "showers" but single large impacts... I could only answer the first part of your question ;)
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There is actually a website about that, that shows you how close they come, i don't remember it off-hand though.  it's pretty neat though, you can like fast forward in time, and reverse.\n\nEven if an Asteroid was going to hit the earth, whomever spotted it wouldn't tell anyone, would cause too much commotion.\n\nHere is a pretty cool site I just found about it, it says 1 in 40 chance in 2029 \nhttp://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_update_041227.html
527999
ha ha ha, i herd about it too, but i herad also that that comet will pass near the earth and it won't hit it. I heard also that in som cpuple bilions of years our galaxy will crash will another galaxy blah blah blah ... i think all these will happne at some time, but i don't know when
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Shoemaker 1, tonight!\n\nVery comprehensive calender of comets below:\n\nhttp://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html\n\nBut for a simple answer, look at this website, it seems that today (7th June) we will see  the brilliantly named 102P/Shoemaker 1, which you can read about at the second of the two below links, and the third link is wikipedia's little info page on it (the important info is in the table at the right-hand side of the page)\n\nhttp://cometography.com/current_comets.html\nhttp://cometography.com/pcomets/102P.html\n\nSo get that telescope out! :-) Hope that helps
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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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It's Asteroid 2003 YN107, and it has been looping around the earth for seven years. :)\n\nEdit: Well, according to NASA as of June 9, 2006 anyway ^_^. Oops, I've just read that it's about to leave the earth; it was just corkscrewing around the planet.\n\nYeah, I think Sunil's right, its Cruithne.
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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.
7692
Yes, earth is moving closer to sun every year, and eventually it will get destroyed one day. But still thousands of years are left for this to happen.
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No, it is not true. But they are looking all the time and there are some that are expected to come pretty close in the next few decades. If there is ever a definite prediction of an inevitable collision, it will be all over the news; you won't have to ask about it on the Internet. I mean, it will be debated in congress, the president will be on all TV channels, the UN will debate it, every scientist and weirdo will be on TV talking about it, billions of dollars will be appropriated by governments around the world to try and do something about it and on and on and on. It will not be a secret or an obscure, hard to find fact.
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No its not May 15th, its May 28th\nhttp://www.lake-link.com/news/headline.cfm?NewsHeadlinesID=2282
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That is the BIG question!  When will it happen?  No one knows and there are only guesses.  Some believe it will not happen as a one big one because the Bible foretells us that it one hundred pound rocks will fall from the sky.  Scientist say we are past due for a big one to hit because the earth was hit so many millions of years ago. \n\nI do not think sitting around and worrying about it will be a productive and worthy of our attention.  When it happens it will happen.  The chance of it happening in our life-time (compared to the millions of years since the last one) is so small that it is not worth computing.  \n\nWe have plenty of people being dooms-day prophets, we need to be more optimistic and looking for how we can improve each others lives for the here and now.
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No. But there will be one that comes pretty damn close. If you use a search engine like Yahoo! you can find out about the near miss that happend not too long ago (I think around November 1998). It was never on the news for good reason.  But we had a close call that could have wiped us all out. Check it out. Its very interesting. The site even give you a scale to show the asteroids proximity to earth, its course and what day it will pass by again. Hope that helps.
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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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it wont be here.....2036 theres an asteroid set to collide with earth the size of Texas...heard it on APNews
62444
With no solid surface for either of these planets, an 'earth'quake would not happen in the traditional sense.  I am sure that there must be some incredible turbulence throughout the entire fluidic interior of the planets, and especial with Jupiter, the core may be solid and made up of metallic hydrogen.  I expect when comet Schumaker-Levy 9 slammed in to Jupiter, it must have set of some tremendous shock waves, but the planet aborbed it with barely a flinch.
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i just received email about it, so i'll just copy and paste it... \n\nEarth is about to pass through the dusty tail of Comet Thatcher, and this will cause the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on April 22nd, producing about 10 meteors per hour--modest, but pretty.  The best time to look is during the hours before sunrise on Saturday morning.  Go to a dark site away from city lights, if possible.\n\nThe Moon will also encounter the comet's tail on April 22nd, which raises an interesting possibility: Amateur astronomers may be able to spot flashes of light on the Moon when comet debris hits the lunar surface and explodes. All that's required is a backyard telescope and lots of patience.\n\nNote: This is a Northern Hemisphere shower.  South of the equator, observers will see very few Lyrids.  Southerners are, however, in an excellent position to observe Lyrid impacts on the Moon.  The Moon rises high in southern skies on April 22nd, in plain view of backyard telescopes.\n\nyou can visit the link below for observing tips and sky maps