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25 to 65 feet? Hardly something to get all worked up about. What would be left after the atmosphere finished with them would only make a moderate dent in the top soil. Enough to blow away a neighborhood or Congress.

I’ve always been of the opinion that its silly to worry over such things…near where I live there is a highway with signs posted, “Watch for falling rocks”. Um, OKAAAY. Not much you can do about said rocks should they happen to fall on you as you drive by, but I sure will “watch” for them. I suppose it’s a good thing someone is watching, but not too sure what could realistically be done if a rock big enough to do serious damage and on a direct collision course WERE spotted. Hollywood’s all very fine and well, but it’s not reality.

What would have been the damage if RX30 did enter our atmosphere and crashed in mid-America?

Raven, that’s the formula for linear momentum.

Note from Ned Potter–
Hello, Jim. Actually, there was a 2008 study from Sandia National Labs modeling the effect of a 30-50 meter asteroid, and showing that even if nothing hit the ground, there could be considerable damage as the object pushed air out of its way. The famous Tunguska crash in Siberia in 1908 may have been caused by something that size. But it’s hard to say what 2010 RX30 might do; we don’t even know, for instance, whether it’s solid, or a loose cluster of material traveling in the same orbit.
Raven, you raised an important point — can we do anything? All sorts of schemes have been discussed for sending a probe to an asteroid and gently nudging it away from a path that would hit the earth — if you had advance notice. That’s why NASA says it pays to keep a lookout. But three days is not much warning.

So, I’m just wondering *really* how much warning we have with lethal CMEs (the so called “kill shot” from the sun or a large asteroid impacts? I get the sense we’d have about 72 hours to get our affairs in order before we all died..
Really question is would they tell us it was coming at all?

Our solar system is enshrouded in clouds of intensely dense debris field of galactic clouds we’re passing thru, as foreseen by the remote view of Jimi Hendrix and explained in the book Rock Prophecy. When Obama was informed of the 2 new asteroids on Monday he went to Milwaukee and quoted Hendrix “Stone Free” in his speech – “Stone” as in ROCK rolling free in space (google: obama hendrix labor day). The ENTIRE “2012″ fad is a TOTAL RIP OFF of the 1995 book Rock Prophecy, which is being concealed and suppressed by the Microsoft founders who persecute the author of that book. They ordered their DreamWorks media empire to instigate the craze for “2012″ as the END of the Maya calendar because Rock Prophecy book explains the START of the Maya calendar with an asteroid impact. The Rock Prophecy.com website is surfacing all of the evidence that MSM is ordered to censor and suppress.
“Electric Love penetrates the sky, the Mountain falls in the sea, the Sun refuses to shine, the story of the asteroid belt in our solar system is explained, continental size graves…” – Jimi Hendrix

Enough to blow away a neighborhood or Congress…Wayne..Sep 8, 2010 12:37:12 PM….Congress, only if intelligent life exists out there and it overheard any sessions of congress, then it would have sent it on a proper trajectory, knowing intelligent life didn’t exist here.

IMHO, NASA should scrap manned space missions and focus on implementing detection and interdiction systems for protecting the planet from asteroids. Perhaps even form an international effort. For the first time in Earth’s history, a specis has the opportunity to protect itself from planet-killing asteroids. We should take advantage of that fact.

“If there’s another extinction will the universe notice?” Who cares if the universe notices? I’m pretty confident that the extinction of the human race would be a pretty big deal, especially when we haven’t determined yet if we’re the only sentient life in the universe. In the entire history of the millions of species on our planet, we’re the only ones that ever evolved beyond the basic ‘eat, sleep, reproduce’ mechanic. The mere survival of microbial life is not enough considering how obviously rare sentience is.

The really big one will hit us in 2012.
Slightly offshore on the west coast of Canada, midway between Wash. and Alaska
6 miles in diameter traveling a million miles an hr.

dimplez.. ok the momentum at .5grams X13.4kmph or 20kfps is defined by m*v^2.
so it is the equiv of 50 grams at 2kfps. Even if the air takes the momentum, the shock from the projectile plus air is on the order of a 50 cal sniper rifle.

I DON’T WORRY ABOUT SUCH THINGS, I BELIEVE IN GOD :)

From what I read, the Siberian 1908 blast occurred when the object entered the atmosphere at a shallow angle of descent. If the angle was steeper, the object would have hit the ground instead of blowing up in the atmosphere.
So we’re still pretty much green horns when it comes to determining what will happen if a NEO hits the Earth. I always had thought that the bigger the NEO, the more damage it will create. Yet, they’re saying now that even small NEOs can cause huge damage as the Siberian 1908 blast.
Gee, now we have to be concern even with small rocks falling from the sky.

The Tunguska event that happened and knocked down the forest trees happened because it exploded over the area and never made contact with the ground. Just like we do when a nuke is fired at a country. The greatest effect is to explode it over the top of an area.

The momentum of a 0.5 g tic-tac moving at 13,400 mph (6,000 m/s) is about the same as a 5 g bullet moving at 600 m/s, but the kinetic energy of the tictac is 10x greater.
It’s lethal.

sorry Jordan…didn’t see your comment…

We are all doomed!