QUOTE(Gr8ful @ Dec 7 2005, 09:38 AM)
It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time.
Scientists call for plans to change asteroid's path Developing technology could take decades.
Alok Jha
Wednesday December 7, 2005
The Guardian
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.
A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.
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Thank you, this is the same one that is "lovingly" termed Wormwood by many scientists. Can't find the site now, but that is what they were calling it in England and here.
I really don't see the humor.
In Revelations, there are several comets mentioned. A first actually hits. To the second it says "I shall tear it inot peices" and rock rain upon thee earth. Of course secientists will have hurled a rocket and will think they did it.... And then the last that can not be deterred or it would have been.
I do believe this is the one. It times out very well in codes to 2034 and the fact that "This generation shall not pass" before the final day.
leia