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    Default 03-05-2012, 02:04 PM
    Maybe not after all. It should be an interesting sight though, assuming the Mayans were wrong that is.
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    Default 03-05-2012, 08:35 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Articulate_Ape View Post
    Maybe not after all. It should be an interesting sight though, assuming the Mayans were wrong that is.
    We'll never see it. it will pass (assuming it's present course) at such altitude that there will be zero atmospheric heating, and it will be traveling at such a high velocity that it'll be all over in a fraction of a second.

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    Default 03-06-2012, 12:21 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by TVDOC View Post
    We'll never see it. it will pass (assuming it's present course) at such altitude that there will be zero atmospheric heating, and it will be traveling at such a high velocity that it'll be all over in a fraction of a second.

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    Going from the JPL NEO information, relative velocity is around 6 km/s...pretty damned fast, but on the lower end of the spectrum as these things go.
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    Default 03-06-2012, 03:32 PM
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    60 meters? That's it?

    I'll hide underneath Porky O'Donnell. Should provide enough cover.
    IIRC the Tunguska meteor wasn't much bigger and it did some damage.
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