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Pizdzius
01-18-2011, 10:58 AM
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/0275420efcc6.gif

Holy crap I didn't know it'd pass so close by O_O

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad= 0#orb

blood-raven
01-18-2011, 11:30 AM
the end of the world! (with a very small chance :p)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

and when will it pass by?

dip1stick
01-18-2011, 12:43 PM
its expected around november this year, it may pass close enough to cause problems but at this time no-one knows for sure

http://ssd.j
pl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1)
so data here

Arafails
01-18-2011, 12:52 PM
October 16 ± about 2 days by what I read (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad= 1#cad) at minimum of .15 AU (maximum .33 AU), so could be some good photo opportunities but not likely a "threat."

(Actually what would really be cool is if we could see it passing between Mercury and Venus, but we'll barely be able to spot Venus with amateur equipment at that point, so....)

Pizdzius
01-18-2011, 01:11 PM
I never said it's a threat or it's the end of the world, geez XD

I just expressed my shock that this comet is going to pass so nearby.
Seeing as close it will get on october 18, we may actually see it with naked eye on the sky almost as clear as the moon (but not that big ofc) :D Maybe we'll get some nice photos of Venus/Mercury squeeze from NASA telescopes.


blood-raven: Apophis (as sweet as his name is) isn't going to make much harm xD I'm sorry.

Gabburtjuh
01-18-2011, 02:47 PM
It better stay the fk away till 13 Oct, I wanna get 18 before I die >.>

DkySven
01-18-2011, 04:42 PM
People just enjoy doom-thinking. :D

Personally I'd love to see a comet this close. Comets are awesome.

blood-raven
01-18-2011, 05:35 PM
blood-raven: Apophis (as sweet as his name is) isn't going to make much harm xD I'm sorry.

really? :what::confused::crying1:

but but...

i broke up with my gf, did 1k chicks, tolled the boss he's a jackass, quited my job afterwards, did sooo many drugs and chicks, crashed down in the sewer (like a boss), met a giant fish (like a boss), f*cked he's brains out (like a boss), turned into a jet (like a boss), bomb the russians (like a boss), flew into the sun (like a boss), been dead (like a boss), respawned, tryed some scientific experiment for nothing?

damn you piz! whyyyyyy!!!!

Pizdzius
01-18-2011, 05:46 PM
People just enjoy doom-thinking. :D

Personally I'd love to see a comet this close. Comets are awesome.

I know, right? :D I need to buy a nice telescope till then!

Angel_de_Combate
01-18-2011, 08:04 PM
People just enjoy doom-thinking. :D

Personally I'd love to see a comet this close. Comets are awesome.

+1 I agree :)

Arafails
01-19-2011, 01:01 AM
really? :what::confused::crying1:

but but...

i broke up with my gf, did 1k chicks, tolled the boss he's a jackass, quited my job afterwards, did sooo many drugs and chicks, crashed down in the sewer (like a boss), met a giant fish (like a boss), f*cked he's brains out (like a boss), turned into a jet (like a boss), bomb the russians (like a boss), flew into the sun (like a boss), been dead (like a boss), respawned, tryed some scientific experiment for nothing?

damn you piz! whyyyyyy!!!!

Already? I mean, it's not even going to barely miss the keyhole for twelve years, and even if it did hit it, it wouldn't hit us until 2036.

A_K_M
01-19-2011, 05:36 AM
really? :what::confused::crying1:

but but...

i broke up with my gf, did 1k chicks, tolled the boss he's a jackass, quited my job afterwards, did sooo many drugs and chicks, crashed down in the sewer (like a boss), met a giant fish (like a boss), f*cked he's brains out (like a boss), turned into a jet (like a boss), bomb the russians (like a boss), flew into the sun (like a boss), been dead (like a boss), respawned, tryed some scientific experiment for nothing?

damn you piz! whyyyyyy!!!!

Ummmm +10 for the reference...

Raideniza
01-19-2011, 01:14 PM
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/0275420efcc6.gif

Holy crap I didn't know it'd pass so close by O_O

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad= 0#orb

Hope it falls on Poland.

Dome
01-19-2011, 01:54 PM
Apophis called me and said he's going to be a little late, and only going to drop in, in 2012.
Sorry for the delay.
And by the way the Aztecs say HAHA too.

blood-raven
01-19-2011, 02:06 PM
Already? I mean, it's not even going to barely miss the keyhole for twelve years, and even if it did hit it, it wouldn't hit us until 2036.

i tought you can't start soon enough.

anyway, i can't wait to see this commet fly by, i watched a meteorite storm in spain, fun to watch, we tryed to count them (i stranded on 26).

and if you said it's going to be huge, it must be something to look out for :)

Aranor
01-19-2011, 02:07 PM
Edited:

Aahh okay I see xD hahahahaha .... I hope to see it =)...

Pizdzius
01-19-2011, 03:53 PM
For Surak's sake :P I just pointed out awesome comet sight in october and you guys just drop those comments like IQ :P

blood-raven
01-19-2011, 07:16 PM
For Surak's sake :P I just pointed out awesome comet sight in october and you guys just drop those comments like IQ :P

ah piz, humor needs to be everywhere, in all kinds of shapes.

but i'm really exited about this, let's hope our belgian weather allows a clear view on the comet.

Pizdzius
01-19-2011, 07:55 PM
yeah I just noticed all threads get degraded like this lately ;]

Pizdzius
01-20-2011, 12:32 AM
By the way!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tatooines-twin-suns-coming-to-a-planet-near-you-just-as-soon-as-betelgeuse-explodes/story-fn5fsgyc-1225991009247

We're going to get two suns for a few weeks. Awesome.

dip1stick
01-20-2011, 09:55 AM
cool 2 suns, might get a sun tan in Scotland now ,,

Pizdzius
01-20-2011, 10:33 AM
Actually for our hemisphere, it'll be more like two moons ;]

dip1stick
01-20-2011, 01:24 PM
pfft, oh well back to the sun beds lmao

Llyssaer
01-20-2011, 04:52 PM
its expected around november this year, it may pass close enough to cause problems but at this time no-one knows for sure

http://ssd.j
pl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1 (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1)
so data here


Maybe this is the surprise NGD talked about? We'll have all sorts of "close call" quests and quests to locate bits of galactic debris. Good times.




~Sylvae Blackwood

Arafails
01-20-2011, 08:38 PM
Actually for our hemisphere, it'll be more like two moons ;]
Or it could come as a gamma ray burst, ionize our ozone layer, and destroy all life on earth. But even if that did happen, who really knows when?

I do love how the media keeps portraying stuff happening in the stars as being "right now breaking" news. Anything that we observe of Betelgeuse happened at least 500 years ago....

Pizdzius
01-20-2011, 11:12 PM
Or it could come as a gamma ray burst, ionize our ozone layer, and destroy all life on earth. But even if that did happen, who really knows when?

I do love how the media keeps portraying stuff happening in the stars as being "right now breaking" news. Anything that we observe of Betelgeuse happened at least 500 years ago....

you really didn't even check it out, did you? ;P it's too far to even affect us with radiation

at least 500? I'd say millions! TRILLIONS! :P

dip1stick
01-21-2011, 12:05 AM
its about 640 light years away so it wont even cause us any problems at all

http://io9.com/5738542/earth-may-soon-have-a-second-sun

Arafails
01-21-2011, 03:26 AM
you really didn't even check it out, did you? ;P it's too far to even affect us with radiation

at least 500? I'd say millions! TRILLIONS! :P
Now now, I did check it out, and Betelgeuse is estimated somewhere around 640 light years from us. It would take us a ridiculous amount of time to travel there, true, but observable events not so long to arrive (As almost all of them travel within a few AUs per hour of c).

Now if it were to collapse in a relaxed and conservative manner (ie a boring supernova) it would just be a pretty light show from here, but a gamma ray burst is about as violent an "ending" as you can get. Remember how pulsars are detected by bursts of X-Rays as a neutrino (ie. already collapsed star) sheds mass? A GRB is like that, only from a collapsing star (ie. much more energy), and more or less instantaneous rather than continuous.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/10apr_grb/ describes the observation of the closest GRB recorded thus far, it brushed our ionosphere and caused radio VLF blackout / LF interference from 2 billion light years away, or several orders of magnitude further than Betelgeuse. If we were directly in its path....

But it's a big sky, moreso if you're trying to find Earth (or even Sol) from Betelgeuse then the other way around. Also, given the magnitude and mass of Betelgeuse, a neat and tidy explosion is far more likely than a messy extremely brightly shining lance of boom.

EDIT: Apologies, I read some reports wrong Don't know where I got VLF blackout from. Look at http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/2176.gcn3 for report of measured effects of GRB030329 on LF radio transmission and http://vlf.stanford.edu/research/gamma-ray-burst-effects-ionosphere for pretty graphs related to a lower magnitude event.

Arafails
01-25-2011, 08:42 AM
So.... I expect to get some much better shots than I got of McNaught (http://picasaweb.google.com/FJ.Whittle/McNaught) when it was nearby.

I wonder where my tripod got to....