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guess who's coming to dinner....


...apophis...

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=apophis;orb=1;cov=0#orb

was just goofin around this afternoon and briefly looked into this whole mayan end of the world thang...and happened on this asteroid in earth's path that looks like it gets real close January 4, 2013...according to the text below the larger concern is around the 25 year range...

(from wikipedia)

(99942) Apophis (previously known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a relatively large probability that it would strike the Earth in 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029. However there remained a possibility that during the 2029 close encounter with Earth, Apophis would pass through a "gravitational keyhole", a precise region in space no more than about 400 meters across, that would set up a future impact on April 13, 2036. This possibility kept the asteroid at Level 1 on the Torino impact hazard scale until August 2006.
 
distance between earth and moon...
 
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. The average center-to-center distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles), which is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth. (wikipedia)
 
astronomical unit...
 
The astronomical unit (AU or au or a.u. or sometimes ua) is a unit of length nearly equal to the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit around the Sun. The currently accepted value of the AU is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres (about 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles). (wikipedia)

apophis will on january 4th 2013 be 0.1 AU from earth or about 93,000 miles one way or another....

close enough to pass between the earth and moon...or smack dab us....or miss us completely....

those mayans got pretty close their prediction or threat for the end of the world....December 21, 2012 the nasa software says...Jan 4, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_calendar

would be interesting for debate on this subject due to so many scientific and religious implications...

or not...

cherrio~pip pip !

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Re: guess who's coming to dinner....



What a downer! (pun intended)
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I thought you were going to say Not Cydoniaquest. LOLOLOL That last post was funny!!

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Re: guess who's coming to dinner....


yeah he's too easy a target...I'm gonna leave him alone to talk with himself...

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