Unconfirmed report: Asteroid heading toward earth...?
959298
True.\nFortunally most of them are destroyied by the atmosphere.
11646
The asteroid you are referring to is actually called "Apophis" which is the greek name for an Egyptian god, also known as the "Destroyer". Apophis is also called 2004 MN4. It is projected to come very close to the earth on April 13, 2029. So far, astronomers have calculated that it will miss the earth by a safe margin, however the gravitational pull of the earth could alter the orbit, putting the asteroid on a much more dangerous course in coming years. Currently, there are talks about launching a device to better monitor it's travels.
335043
Yes. Here's the proof: There has been talk that the asteroid 1997XF11 will crash into the Earth in the year 2028. The bottom line is that this asteroid poses no threat to the planet Earth in the next century. But, it will pass by the Earth over and over again in the next centuries, so it is worth knowing what our countermeasures are if it ever gets too close!\n\nRight now, they have the technology to divert a comet or asteroid coming towards the Earth. Our rockets and explosives would be sufficient to break apart even a large object of about 1 kilometer in diameter. We would of course need some lead time (10 years would be a nice minimum notice). Blowing up an asteroid or a comet too near to the Earth, would just create a chaotic mess of smaller pieces flying towards the Earth. If we were to discover an object coming towards the Earth with only 1-2 years notice before impact, our technologies might not be adequate. The best we could hope to do would be to evacuate the impact site. So the best plan right now is to continue surveying for Near Earth Objects, so that we will know where these asteroids and comets are in time to prepare any countermeasures that might be necessary.
1026139
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.
583540
I depends on the type of asteroid, a solid one we can deflect, but if it is an aglommerate of space debris, it will be like trying to avoid a shot gun blast.
1042534
"Near close approach around 4h44m UT July 3, this 600-meter/yard diameter asteroid\n\n Passes only 268,873 miles from the Earth, only  1.1 times the distance to the moon away.\n\nPeaking at  visual magnitude 11.1 four hours later, users of telescopes of 6 inches (15cm)  \n\nor larger can enjoy observing a  rare celestial  treat.  At time of close approach, 2004 XP14\n\n races along at 8.323 degrees per hour, or a mean lunar diameter every four minutes!\n\nSuch a rapid speed results in direct motion becoming visible, second by second. Just \n\nas naked eye Earth satellites are seen crossing the sky, 2004 XP14 will both amaze and\n\nchallenge the observer, both visually and those taking images."\n\nFrom www.lpl.arizona.edu\n\nHope it helps.
1045091
QUOTE-----"The photo must be by telescope from the Earth to the moon! If no one can find any recent photos then the moon landings are a massive hoax!"\n\nTo remind u and other readers...we CAN'T see the lunar rover or whatsoever using our telescope on earth.No matter how BIG the telescope is, we still CAN'T see it because of atmospheric blurring.\n\nEven HUBBLE can't see it...because that landing site (flag and all that) is so SMALL.... and MOON is MOVING so fast.\n\nIt's just like trying to see a COIN when you are travelling with an AEROPLANE high in the SKY\n\nDID U GET IT? OR U NEED ME TO REPEAT IT AGAIN?
921191
Only early detection.  The most promising idea of how to divert such an asteroid would involve sending a probe out to it that would be massive enough to pull at it by way of its own gravity.  If this is done with enough time to spare, you could actually divert the path of the asteroid so that it misses earth altogether.
993967
several large asteroids have earth-crossing orbits, but we know of no asteroids that will come close to us at this time.  Odds are, if an asteroid that was 1 mile across or bigger coming at us soon, we wouldn't know it at all in advance.  We're working on finding them all and getting their orbits mapped.
364727
Nope...The sun still has plenty of hydrogen, and the only Earth smashing asteroid that we know of is still over 800 years away. Everybody Party!!
1185571
a meteor is going to pass very close to the earth on that day...check out\nhttp://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=341846
641207
read this.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060522/sc_space/towardimmortalitythesocialburdenoflongerlives  i think it WILL happen. and for me i WANT to live longer. I want to see our species travel beyond our solar system and find new life. Then i will be happier.
586535
A continuing effort to identify even near Earth asteroids which are relatively easy to track and have a greater possibility of collision is still incomplete, with only a fraction of their orbits plotted. Since the orbital periods of comets and other Oort cloud entities are in the tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years, many of these objects have never been seen in recorded history, much less their orbits calculated and possibility of collision with Earth evaluated. With this in mind, an event such as this might be possible at any point in the future, although since objects from the outer solar system tend to be rather reflective, chances are that they would be spotted and we would have some advance warning of a likely intersection with Earth orbit presenting a cause for concern. That said, the chance of it happening in any particular year is extremely remote, the likelihood of it happening sometime in the next several million years greater.
266868
Yes, it is virtually certain that asteroids have hit earth. First of all, earlier in the history of the solar system there were probably many more asteroids than there are now, so the odds of a collision were greater. More recently a large asteroid impact is credited with having led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Other planets and their moons show many craters, which provide evidence for asteroid impacts. On earth these are destroyed by weathering. The June 1997 issue of Sky and Telescope has an article on this subject in which they estimate that a very large asteroid impact occurs once every 100 million - 1 billion years (the earth is 4 billion years old), and a large asteroid impacts once every 1 - 100 million years.
382749
are they sure that it will hit earth in that year? Maybe it will hit earth much later, or maybe they'll find a way to stop it. I don't know, the size, but asteroids sure are large, but maybe it'll be just a small collision that the earth will not split up and humankind will not be...destroyed.
868699
Check at a site called neo (near earth objects)!!
367790
Greetings,\n\nCruithne discovered in 1986.\n\nWe currently have a couple of asteriod size objects oribiting the earth, if that is what you are referring to (Reference the first website listed as sources.)\n\nWe also have any number of Near Earth Objects captured by Earth's gravity, the second link posted.\n\n-matt