Tag: near earth object
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Maybe my kids should worry about 2009 BD – but I won’t
Today is my eldest daughter’s 16th birthday. That means in April 2078 she will be a sprightly 82. I will, though, I am sure, be long gone at 112. And, maybe she should be worried about 2009 BD, the 10 metre lump of rock that passes inside the Moon’s orbit this week – because on…
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End of the world watch
My article on 2009 BD, the small rock which makes a near-Earth approach this week continues to be the most popular article on the site – because there are a lot of people out there searching for information about how the world is due to end in June 2011. It’s not. It won’t happen. Nor…
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So, the world did not end after all
About three hours ago (or two, if God ignored summer time), the world was supposed to have ended and the “Rapture” begun. Big yucks to all of us sceptics, of course. (Around twenty years ago a film called “Rapture” was released which focused on the bizarre beliefs of people who thought the world was about…
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The end of the world is nigh: 2 June 2011
Actually, its unlikely, at least in the short term. I discovered today that the Jet Propulsion Library run an easy to use website on objects that come close to Earth – and then went on to discover that it was predicting an object, travelling at 2000 metres per second relative to the Earth was due…
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