Global Warming causes asteroid paths to change!!!!

[skookerasbil]

I love this forum.......where else can you go on the internet and end up laughing your balls off the entire time you are blogging???


Heres the latest from the k00ks...........




CNN host suggests link between asteroid, global warming

CNN anchor Deb Feyerick suggested Saturday afternoon that global warming may extend further than our globe.

The host wrapped up a segment on the impact that climate change may have had on the winter storm that hit the Northeast this weekend by saying: “Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people’s minds is whether or not global warming is to blame? I’ll talk to Bill Nye, ‘the science guy,’ about devastating storms and climate change.”


Read more: CNN host suggests link between asteroid, global warming - Washington Times
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CNN host suggests link between asteroid, global warming - Washington Times

And Rolling Thunder and Saigon and Dante and everybody else will be in here tonight calling the sceptics "retards"!!!!

 

[TheOldSchool]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/278123-global-warming-causes-asteroids-to-strike-the-earth.html

This is a hilarious thread where everyone mocks the topic.

 

[skookerasbil]

Who's mocking the topic?

Im mocking the AGW k00ks who push this shit......I love these people. They keep making it better and better for we sceptics.!!!!! Not more than a week or two go by these days without them coming out with another tale of hysteria. Which begs the question.....whats next?

 

[TheOldSchool]

 

[Desperado]

I was amazed that Bill Nye could keep a straight face when CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked if the close asteroid encounter was caused by Global Warming.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says if it spins the wrong way, it gonna hit Earth an' start a nuclear winter like what caused the dinosaurs to die out...

Asteroid's Spin Intrigues Astronomers
February 14, 2013 - Astronomers hope to learn more about Asteroid 2012 DA14's features and composition as it flies past Earth at about 7.8 kilometers per second - far faster than a speeding bullet. But that's not all they hope to discern when the object comes within 28,000 kilometers of our planet on February 15.

SPIN

Michael Busch is a planetary astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico. He says the direction of DA14's spin is important in predicting the way its orbit will change over time. "One of the interesting things about DA14 is we expect its spin state will change as it flies by the Earth," said Busch. "The Earth's gravity will pull slightly more on one side of the asteroid than on the other, and that will change its spin."

A simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.

SPECKLES

The U.S. space agency's Goldstone antenna in the western state of California will beam radio waves toward the asteroid. Busch and his team will be about 1,000 kilometers away in New Mexico, where the National Radio Astronomy Observatory operates a pair of antennas, about 400 kilometers apart. The two antennas will receive the waves reflected off the asteroid's uneven surface. Busch explains parts of the asteroid will reflect the signal differently, allowing astronomers to observe so-called "speckles." "That pattern is random, but it moves across the Earth as the asteroid spins, so by tracking the time difference in when a different speckle arrives at a given antenna, I can figure out how fast and in what direction the asteroid is spinning," he said.

CHANGES IN ORBIT

Busch also explains that the part of the asteroid that is in view of the sun develops a hot spot that radiates heat. This exerts a gentle, jet-like push that can speed up or slow down the asteroid. Over time, this can significantly alter its orbit. Astronomers with NASA, the U.S. space agency, say 2012 DA14's next notable close approach to our planet will be in 2046, and even then, it won't strike the Earth.

Busch notes that while scientists can - for the most part - precisely predict DA14's orbit for the next century, this space rock will yield important insights into the behavior of other asteroids. "With the radar observations that we'll get this weekend after the close approach and the optical infrared data that is also coming in, we will be able to much better predict where DA14 in particular is going and run that orbit out much further into the future," said Busch. "But this also lets us begin to understand the properties of the near-Earth asteroids as a population." The U.S. space agency says, on average, an asteroid the size of 2012 DA14 gets close every 40 years and hits every 1,200 years.

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Images May be Evidence of Milky Way's Youngest Black Hole
February 13, 2013 - Astronomers may have found the most recent black hole to form in our galaxy, and they think it could have been born in a rare explosion caused by a dying star.

New images from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a telescope that observes the cosmos from an orbit 139,000 kilometers above the Earth, suggest that the supernova remnant's oddly-shaped clouds of glowing gas may contain a young black hole. The remnant, called W49B, is about 1,000 years old. That is equivalent to a blink of an eye in a universe believed to be nearly 14 billion years old.

X-Ray, infrared and radio wave images of supernova remnant called W49B

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts operates the Chandra telescope. It says, if confirmed, W49B would be the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. Supernova explosions occur when massive stars run out of fuel, but NASA notes such blasts are not well understood. The explosions tend to be symmetrical, but supernova remnant W49B is asymmetrical, elongated and elliptical.

Scientists say the distorted shape and the brilliant, colorful X-ray images of the remnant indicate an unusual end for the star. Astronomers looked for a dense, spinning core, but they saw no evidence of one. They say this means a black hole may have formed.

Laura Lopez, who led the study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said W49B is the first of its kind to be discovered in our galaxy. In a statement on NASA's website, Lopez said, "It appears its parent star ended its life in a way that most others don't." NASA launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1999. The findings about W49B will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

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