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Live Tracking Asteroid D14 As It Misses The Earth By 17,500 Miles At 2:25pm Eastern
Update: it missed.
It is only fitting that in the aftermath of the earlier meteor explosion above the Russian Urals, that the world's attention next shifts to yet another historic celestial event, this time of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which will make a historic flyby of the planet, missing Earth by some 17,500 miles. According to scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs, the asteroid, which is 150 feet in size, an object of this size makes a close approach like this every 40 years. The likelihood of a strike is every 1,200 years. Of course, the neo Keynesian among us would wish the latter number was much smaller: just think of the untapped GDP potential that would result from the epic destruction. And while a direct impact would not lead to any mass extinctions as was the case 65 million years ago, when the earth was hit by a meteor 6 miles across, this rock could still do immense damage if it struck given its 143,000-ton heft, releasing 2.4 megatons of energy and wiping out 750 square miles. The closest approach will take place at 2:25 pm Eastern, and NASA will be covering the event live below.
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.
At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 2:25 p.m. EST (11:25 a.m. PST/ 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
In addition to the commentary, near real-time imagery of the asteroid's flyby before and after closest approach, made available to NASA by astronomers in Australia and Europe, weather permitting, will be streamed beginning at about noon EST (9 a.m. PST) and continuing through the afternoon at the following website:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be streamed for three hours starting at 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST). To view the feed and ask researchers questions about the flyby via Twitter, visit:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc
The NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington, manages and funds the search, study, and monitoring of NEOs, or asteroids and comets, whose orbits periodically bring them close to the Earth. NASA's study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system. The objects also are a repository of natural resources and could become waystations for future exploration. In collaboration with other external organizations, one of the program's key goals is to search and hopefully mitigate potential NEO impacts on Earth. JPL conducts the NEO program's technical and scientific activities.
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asteroid is going to miss us? thats great news, that should be good for 200 dow pts and 50 s&p pts.
Can we just duct tape our central bankers to it as it goes by?
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Too late <3
Darn !
It is not an attack. It is a pick up.
After destroying the capital markets, Barney Frank has transmogrified back into his brain bug form and is going to hitch a ride home to Klendathu!
I'm really hoping that's not what I think it is.
"Update: it missed."
Bullish.
OMFG somebody delete that brainbug picture please, I'll nevr be the same again.
Just use your imagination and make believe you see some whipped cream on it. Much better, huh?
I've looked at that picture for far too long and still can't figure out exactly what it is, is it just a photoshop masterpiece or really a human being?
Special Report Live:
A human was sighted on D14. The person is described as a man in a suit with a beard. Also he was seen from the telescope throwing dollars from his money sack across the universe. If you listen closely the man was yelling, "FUCK helicopters! I have me a fucking comet! Wealth for all!"
Nature fires a warning shot across our bow and what, nobody even flinches.
We're doomed!
The Russian Meteorite and the Wormwood Connection:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-russian-meteorite-wormw...
Fscking Kangaroos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs
Exactly. Now back to our regularly scheduled demolition of sovereign nations in the name of democracy.
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Everything else that misses is bullish.
It's ALL bullish fuu... [I learned that from u]... By consequence ~ I have achieved TOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS,,, & I have you to thank for that...
wtf have I done?
Horseman, does Barney Frank and the word Brain belong in the same sentence? Just sayin', that is the nastiest picture I have ever seen. I have to go take a shower now lol.
Good grief.
What...The...Fuck...
Becky put your mask back on.
Throw flour on it and aim for the wet spot.
lol.
If Jabba the Hut and a Gamorrean Guard had a kid - it would like that.
Roll that kid around with a stick.
CPL you reside in Canada and are working in the engineering sector correct?
that's no regular brainbug... that's Behemecoatyl, oh brain of brains!
Ummm, Whiteshadowmovement.. Hedgeless horseman sees your man fucking a turkey and raises you a huge ass with teeth.
Is there a cream for this?
Smegma
Its like the hamburger helper hand took on crack - meth and became a Mentat.
It is by will alone...
...It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
God damn it, Herbert was a fine writer.
Decapitated banksters?
No amount of your dinner plate photos can make up for this...
What about the Italian bride of a French politician?
That works!
"Those aren't pillows"!
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Thats Napolitano's ass right?
Sorry, I left my webcam running while doing crunches.
Too fuckin late, I think the Earth has already been financially decimated by the asteroid Qe1234, sent from the planet B3rnank.
(in reference to the bug planet Klendathu in Starship Troopers)
hh, Couldnt believe after I posted my message, we had the same idea. That Brain bug surely reminds me of the Bernank.
And dear Jesus, if you just deign to let it hit at 38.53.34.84 N 77.02.44.72 W, I promise to never watch another porno flick as long as I live
Can somebody please hit the stock market with an asteroid?!
I want to be careful and preface this as hearsay, but there is a rumor that Krugman has built a shrine to Asteroid D14 in his Princeton office, complete with candles, incense, pagan throw rugs & sculptures of Shiva, destroyer of all worlds, that he's given his students the day off, and that he is "holed up" in his locked office, on bended knee, in a hallucinogenic-induced stupor (psilocybin fungi), praying for a highly stimulative event.
Krugman is praying for a "highly stimulative event?"
Most likely QE 6 and 7.
...and with plenty of lube
I meant Siva and not Shiva, above.
Sorry, Siva. Sorry everyone.
It missed?
That must be why FIRE/EMS are on scene trying to extricate Krugman from his office that he's torched.
What a guy! Think of all the growth Krugman has spurred as his office is remodeled. Thousands of man hours of skilled laborers and carpenters; the purchase of office furniture; importing Brazilian mahogany produced by poor laborers in the Amazon; the shipping and freight costs involved...
That wasn't an asteroid, Jamie just flushed his Gulfstream
Apparently in a downward direction. And I was told we had are best men on this one...
Gold, bitchez!
[final words to my ZH brethren]
According to NASA,
"...after the asteroid goes by, we'll have more information about it than before..."
Sounds just like the rocket scientists that run the rest of the .gov
Don't worry folks, nothing can go wrong with these geniuses looking out for us
This NASA feed and chatting with the Aussies is pathetic. A bunch of Star Trekkers. The ****ing country is broke.
Send these people with Krugman to Your-Anus.
MANBERNKRUG!
All I know the clouds aren't going away and I'm not getting a picture of it leaving orbit.
Damn it.
Hit DC, hit DC, hit DC!
;)
Hopefully a chunk will break off and head for Krugman's office in Princeton at 30,000 mph.
I'd like more, but I'll take what I can get. ;)
Shit, we got the "all clear". . .
;(
Al Qaeda would take credit.
Just think of the erection Krugman would have should this hit earth, with all of the broken window GDP increases we could see.
It missed. Krugman had to throw a paper weight through his office window to blow his load / salvage the session.
Fortunately for Krugman, he was so excited, he shot his bolt before the asteroid passed, so still got a little thrill.
Krugman? How 'bout Larry Silverstein. I had all the reporters in place too. "Covering carnage LIVE!" now even worse than the market being down our ratings have taken a hit. I'm not paying for those plane tickets that's fed sure.
If I was the PTB, I would pretend like this asteroid hit the stalite that facilitates the NYSE and have all equity go to zero.
But that is because I have no idea how they are getting out of this mess. Maybe they have a diferent plan up their sleeve.
They're going to liquidate the population. That's how they're getting out of it.
Lets hope they, were awake during physics, and more important they didnt make up BS numbers, i.e. distances, sizes too like some, strike that, ALL appear to be done
It's government numbers... Would you trust them?
if it hit Fresh Kills on SatenIsland, would that be bullish for garbage staocks?
Kirk to Enterprise: Mr. Spock target and destroy the asteroid 2012 DA14 with phasers.
Kirk beamed up long ago to the USS Priceline. There was no intelligent life here, remember..
Belay that phaser order!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I
here is a little vid you should review if this thing does hit us.....it's 9 minuteslong so you should have about 30 seconds to put the plan into motion.
Hey - that asteriod is transmitting "Triumph of the Will". I wonder - no, it couldn't be.
Well, it hit Chelyabinsk, aka "Tankograd", responsible for mass T-34 production in the 1940's.
It seems Hitler's V-3 is 70 years too late and 70 megatons too weak.
Perspective: 17,500 miles is more than two earth diameters.
Kind of like two jetliners missing each other by over 600 feet ...
sad day for Kurgman, though.
Actually, it's like a jetliner holding short while a gnat flies by 600 feet up runway. Its wing-wash really isn't going to affect the take off.
Now if Krugman was a bug on a windshield...
"Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that bankster, not excuses."
As long as it misses its bullish! Is Bruce Willis on alert?
Oops
You guys should hope if not this one some decent size asteroids make near earth orbits. A few them hitting key satellites and the drones are out of commission.
If it takes out the entire earth - should be good for a 250 point rally on the Dow.
What a bunch of tools, show the damn picture not the stupid simulation.
We are such a bunch of dumb monkeys, we deserve a big hit from one of these.
WE MADE IT!
It's now 2:26 pm ET, bitchez!
Aaand, its gone.
I thought it was called Apophis...
Whew, that was close! I could feel the breeze!
market is selling, did it hit the earth in the end? the market never sells
45 million share red candle on the 5 min spy started this slide .... Thats a big footprint or a very fat finger. Maybe the astroid knocked out power at the Federal trading table?
Kinda wish it had hit DC or London. Anyone else?
D.C., London has some nice pubs, and fish and chips.
Fcuk, it missed.
Well the neo-Keynsians could just explode a nuke in some city somewhere and SAY it was a meteor.
they did that in Japan recently to mixed results
Giant Asteroid Strikes Earth Killing All Life on the Planet - Trading Algorithms react by driving the markets even higher in anticipation of more Central Bank easing!
Question is...was this the front end of an old larger comet or meteor or the backend? Possible more Russian sized impacts as smaller pieces drag by....or that could be it.
Radiotelemetry is pretty good at picking up and charting the trajectory of rocks this size, but miss the junk traveling with it. Happened with the last Neo and atmosphere entries were sighted over Austrailia. I also recall a freak wave off of LA that either damaged or sank an open water racing sail about that same time.
Tic, tock, tick, tock, etc.
Just a warm up of the tracking and sensationalizing apparatus in a live test for the really big show later this fall. Better to play the big hoopla for profit, than too try to hide it? Will many be here to see it, or have they got a population reduction before the destruction planned? Would the elitist trash bags want billions of frightened humans running around, or maybe a lot less to worry about going zombie crazy on them? Hummmm...
Speaking of fall, do you think that something of this nature would take the inspired kick out of the babylonian profiteering plans?
http://www.space.com/19188-comet-ison-brightest-ever-2013.html
BTFD?
gold and silver pumpers that threatened universal cosmic diasaster if you didn't BTFD mysteriously disappear like said asteroid..
hmm... could it be....
The Mayans were off by a few months. Either that, or the asteroid stopped at the tittie bar to blow off some steam.
Watch out im still convinced that huge sucking sound in NYC can possible deter D14 CPSO R2D2 and Bloomberg will save the day by bending over and spreading his rancid asshole wide open and attempt to anally swallow the tax destructive rock.
In the movie WATERWORLD, near the end, Kevin Costner throws a flare down a vent, which goes all the way to the bottom of the ship. An old bearded guy, wearing nothing but greasy shorts and glasses, standing in a pool of oil, new he was about to die, and said, "Oh Thank GOD!"
We should be so lucky.