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get the red out

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8. That's great

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #6)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 03:56 PM

Feb 2013

I don't need for them to blow them up, I just hope they're working on figuring out how to "nudge". We're a fast-moving target but there's plenty of evidence that strikes from large objects have happened in the past so we might as well assume that sooner or later.

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Russian Meteorite Shows How Much Damage Could Be Done By Something Larger [View all] TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 OP

This is probably an ignorant question, but is there a possibility that the meteorite caused the Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #1

Probably Not Because TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #3

Thanks MN! Just seemed strange that there haven't been any there for quite awhile and it started Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #5

Universal Warming. FSogol Feb 2013 #9

Huh? nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #10

It did make it to the surface, but the impactor was pretty tiny. Posteritatis Feb 2013 #13

An asteroid is a large meteor...... rdharma Feb 2013 #2

It's always a potential disaster get the red out Feb 2013 #4

I Was Watching Nightline Last Night And TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #6

That's great get the red out Feb 2013 #8

Phil Plait -- the Bad Astronomer longship Feb 2013 #7

Tunguska was no fly-by. MicaelS Feb 2013 #11

Very True TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #12