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  1. Zanderama

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  2. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    We have dodged another few, scary thing is the closest one was only discovered/noticed last sunday it seems.



    2018 VX1: ASTEROID WILL FLY PAST EARTH CLOSER THAN THE MOON ON SATURDAY
    BY KATHERINE HIGNETT ON 11/9/18 AT 6:07 AM

    A newly discovered asteroid that is taller than a house is set to safely buzz past Earth Saturday afternoon. NASA predicts space rock 2018 VX1 will reach a close approach of around 237,000 miles. That’s slightly below the average distance to the moon.

    Spotted on Sunday, the Apollo-type asteroid is thought to be between 26 and 60 feet long. It will reach its close approach to our planet at approximately 1:20 p.m. ET Saturday.

    Astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey were first to catch a glimpse of the space rock, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. The asteroid will barrel toward Earth at about 4 miles per second, relative to our planet, NASA reported.

    You can watch the close approach online with the Virtual Telescope Project, which will stream the asteroid live from 1 p.m. ET.

    2018 VX1 is not the only asteroid headed for Earth Saturday. 2018 VS1 and 2018 VR1 are set for flybys at 9:03 a.m. ET and 9:19 a.m. ET, respectively. Larger than 2018 VX1, these minor planets will travel safely past our planet at much larger distances.

    2018 VS1 has a diameter between 40 and 90 feet, according to NASA estimates. The space rock is slated to come within 862,000 miles of our planet, reaching a relative velocity of about 7 miles per second at close approach.


    2018 VR1 is thought to be slightly larger than VS1, with an estimated diameter between 45 and 100 feet. It will charge towards Earth at about 7 miles per second, reaching a close approach distance of 3,129,000 miles.

    Although these asteroids are completely safe and pose no risk to life on our planet, space rocks can be deadly. Tens of millions of years ago, a giant asteroid is thought to have crashed to Earth, triggering a series of cataclysmic events that killed the majority of animal and plants. It was known as the Chicxulub asteroid, and scientists believe this mass extinction event claimed the life of most dinosaurs.

    More recently—and less catastrophically—space rocks have shattered windows, damaged buildings and flattened forests. The Tunguska event of 1908 is thought to have produced an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945, NASA reports.

    Just five years ago, a meteor exploded in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, causing an estimated 1,500 indirect injuries and damaging more than 7,000 buildings.


    https://www.newsweek.com/2018-vx1-a...pJobID=1150559759&spReportId=MTE1MDU1OTc1OQS2
     
  3. ChrisMoh

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    https://www.foxnews.com/science/mis...extraterrestrial-life-most-likely-to-be-found

    scientists have picked the landing site of a robot mission to Mars which will search for signs of alien life.

    The ExoMars rover is due to be blasted into space in 2010 but not land on the Red Planet until March 2021 and drill into its surface to search for any evidence of life that may have existed.


    Experts working on the joint European-Russian project have picked an area called Oxia Planum, as it is thought the site once contained a large body of water billions of years ago.

    The other main contender was Mawrth Vallis – a channel formed by huge flooding between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands.

    Aram Dorsum which is found in the highlands of Arabia Terra, north of the Crommelin crater, was also on the shortlist of possibilities.

    The decision is expected to be officially confirmed next year when it is signed off by the heads of the project.

    Group member Professor John Bridges from the University of Leicester said after four years of careful study the site had been picked because its fine sediments would be ideal for the rover’s drill.

    He said: “With an enormous catchment area the sediments will have captured organics from a wide variety of environments over a long period of time, including areas where life may have existed.

    “A large group of scientists have been working on proposing, characterizing and down selecting the sites, all of which had fascinating aspects, but Oxia Planum is the clear winner on both science and engineering constraints.”

    Layers of clay-rich minerals found in the area also suggest it was once the location of a massive lake.

    It is hoped the rover will drill two meters below the planet’s surface hunting for signs there was life on the planet around four billion years ago when there was water on the planet.

    Jorge Vago, a ExoMars project scientist with the European Space Agency (ESA), said: “With ExoMars we are on a quest to find biosignatures.

    “While both sites offer valuable scientific opportunities to explore ancient water-rich environments that could have been colonized by microorganisms, Oxia Planum received the majority of votes."

    Landing a robot on Mars has proved difficult in the past so the choice had to consider where the most likely sites were against the chances of being able to actually land a craft in the area.

    It is thought the low-lying Oxia Planum area will provide more time for a parachute to slow the robot’s descent onto the surface.

    ESA’s head of space exploration Sue Horne said: “Our end goal is in sight and it is getting very exciting.”
     
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  4. FATLAZYBHOY Born in the steamie Gold Member

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    Pffttt !!!!!
    Superman will come to out aid.
    Nothing to worry about.
     
  5. Sporting CP Bhoy

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    Bravo! You are most likely the first person ever to reference the Oort Cloud on a football forum! :57:

    Fascinating stuff. When you think about what else is out there, everything here seems so brutally insignificant...makes your head spin.

    Case in point, watch this video...it’s mind boggling:

     
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  6. ChrisMoh

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    I was reading the theorised planet 9 could well be a super earth.Now tht is interesting considering its in our own solar system,apparently the discovery of the goblin is a step in trying to find and prove planet nine exists.
     
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    Great Documentary here...Sean Pertwee narrated as well

     
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  8. Valhalla Thus spoke Batistuta.

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    Interstellar. Wit a fulm.
     
  9. Idioteque I’ll laugh until my head comes off

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    Chris Hadfield with a bag of green in the ISS
     
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  10. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    That's brilliant. :giggle1: