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OMG OMG OMG Giant rock INCOMING
oh and for the sake of clearifying things:
Briefly, a meteoroid is piece of cosmic debris in the solar system. It becomes a meteor when it enters Earth's atmosphere and begins to glow brightly. It becomes a meteorite if it survives and hits the ground.
Asteroids are a relatively small, inactive body, composed of rock, carbon or metal, which is orbiting the Sun.
Comets are relatively small, sometimes active object, which is composed of dirt and ices. Comets are characterised by dust and gas tails when in proximity to the Sun. Far from the Sun it is difficult to distinguish an asteroid from a comet.
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November 3, 2009 12:36 pm
November 3, 2009 12:53 pm
it has been slowly been growing. Each time Phill joins MHChat it gets slightly bigger... Conspiracy? I think no.
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November 3, 2009 2:03 pm
koki wrote:
Huh, I never noticed that before. On the first day I don't think it was even visible.
Its growing!
November 3, 2009 2:04 pm
artist-illustrator.net wrote:
koki wrote:Huh, I never noticed that before. On the first day I don't think it was even visible.
Its growing!
we all know i love Phill but his tweet was flawed... if it's a meteor then it would be in the atmosphere already and would have likely become a meteorite at this point
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November 3, 2009 3:06 pm
rail16 wrote:
Where are our lasers to shoot the darn thing down?
Or why haven't we sent Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to take care of it?
SG-1 would do that way much better 
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November 3, 2009 3:50 pm
Lioness wrote:
SG-1 would do that way much better
No doubt, but there would be far too few explosions
November 3, 2009 4:04 pm
markbett wrote:
we all know i love Phill but his tweet was flawed... if it's a meteor then it would be in the atmosphere already and would have likely become a meteorite at this point
I thought a meteor could be any object that has the potential to enter Earth's atmosphere. I don't think the object could be considered an asteroid because it's not orbiting the sun, and it's definitely not a comet.
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November 3, 2009 4:06 pm
Lioness wrote:
rail16 wrote:Where are our lasers to shoot the darn thing down?
Or why haven't we sent Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to take care of it?
SG-1 would do that way much better
What, without a stargate on this rock? 
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November 3, 2009 4:08 pm
rail16 wrote:
Where are our lasers to shoot the darn thing down?
Or why haven't we sent Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to take care of it?
last time i saw them, johnred was attaching them to the sharks in the pool around his compound
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November 3, 2009 4:10 pm
koki wrote:
markbett wrote:we all know i love Phill but his tweet was flawed... if it's a meteor then it would be in the atmosphere already and would have likely become a meteorite at this point
I thought a meteor could be any object that has the potential to enter Earth's atmosphere. I don't think the object could be considered an asteroid because it's not orbiting the sun, and it's definitely not a comet.
i dont make the names, perhaps we should file a complaint with NASA
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November 3, 2009 4:12 pm
November 3, 2009 4:14 pm
markbett wrote:
i dont make the names, perhaps we should file a complaint with NASA
Whilst looking stuff up, I learned something new. A meteor is simply the "streak of light" entailing a meteoroid, which can be a little or a boulder shaped rock. The object is too big to be a meteoroid though.
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November 3, 2009 4:18 pm
koki wrote:
markbett wrote:we all know i love Phill but his tweet was flawed... if it's a meteor then it would be in the atmosphere already and would have likely become a meteorite at this point
I thought a meteor could be any object that has the potential to enter Earth's atmosphere. I don't think the object could be considered an asteroid because it's not orbiting the sun, and it's definitely not a comet.
I could be wrong, but I think what we have here is a "meteoroid".
Meteoroid: Stable elliptic orbit
Meteor: The observed event when a mass starts to burn up in the atmosphere; synonymous with "shooting star"
Meteorite: Whatever's left after the shooting star event that makes it to the earth's crust
Strictly speaking, an asteroid can become a meteoroid. In my understanding, the only thing that makes an asteroid an asteroid is its presence in the asteroid belt. Compositionally, they are the same.
However, if I were to look at this as if it was real, I would classify what's in that image as a dwarf planet. It's certainly large enough. Also spinning at a ridiculously fast speed. Maybe it'll ricochet off the atmosphere like a skipping stone on water?
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November 3, 2009 4:19 pm
Ummm... Less focus on naming and more focus on giant rock flying towards us...?
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November 3, 2009 4:29 pm
fuzzbinn wrote:
Ummm... Less focus on naming and more focus on giant rock flying towards us...?
Sorry. Whenever you get a bunch of scientists in a room together discussing inevitable doom, we tend to decide that falling out over semantics is more pressing.
"Giant rock? No, sir. Meteoroid, and the fact that you're imprecise/wrong is more important than finding a way to not die!"
Yeah… that's the real reason humanity is ultimately doomed. :3
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November 3, 2009 4:34 pm
Miah wrote:
koki wrote:markbett wrote:we all know i love Phill but his tweet was flawed... if it's a meteor then it would be in the atmosphere already and would have likely become a meteorite at this point
I thought a meteor could be any object that has the potential to enter Earth's atmosphere. I don't think the object could be considered an asteroid because it's not orbiting the sun, and it's definitely not a comet.
I could be wrong, but I think what we have here is a "meteoroid".
Meteoroid: Stable elliptic orbit
Meteor: The observed event when a mass starts to burn up in the atmosphere; synonymous with "shooting star"
Meteorite: Whatever's left after the shooting star event that makes it to the earth's crustStrictly speaking, an asteroid can become a meteoroid. In my understanding, the only thing that makes an asteroid an asteroid is its presence in the asteroid belt. Compositionally, they are the same.
However, if I were to look at this as if it was real, I would classify what's in that image as a dwarf planet. It's certainly large enough. Also spinning at a ridiculously fast speed. Maybe it'll ricochet off the atmosphere like a skipping stone on water?
exactly... well it could be an asteroid but we dont know what its made of... it could also be a a comet
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November 3, 2009 4:47 pm
Miah wrote:
Sorry. Whenever you get a bunch of scientists in a room together discussing inevitable doom, we tend to decide that falling out over semantics is more pressing.
"Giant rock? No, sir. Meteoroid, and the fact that you're imprecise/wrong is more important than finding a way to not die!"
Yeah… that's the real reason humanity is ultimately doomed. :3
And committees.
A true Governing body would form a committee to discuss and decide what kind of heavenly body is coming at us as well as another committee to decide what the name of the object will be, aside from it's scientific nomenclature, so that media outlets can latch onto it for public consumption.
November 3, 2009 5:06 pm
We probably shouldn't call it a meteor or a meteoroid because that may confuse the drooling masses into thinking that consuming hamburgers or up-and-coming cellphones would hasten our impending doom from this spinning object.
Once the media latches onto the news of the object, some government committee will decide that meteoroid is too close to "meat" and "droid." Since this terminology would obviously cause undue harm to both the hamburger and cellular phone industries, the masses should avoid such panic and begin referring to it simply by it's much more scientific name the "MH3.1 object."
November 3, 2009 5:52 pm
andys53 wrote:
Lioness wrote:rail16 wrote:Where are our lasers to shoot the darn thing down?
Or why haven't we sent Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to take care of it?
SG-1 would do that way much better
What, without a stargate on this rock?
They call the Asgards and they beam they up or with some ship...hey...they would fix it in any way
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November 3, 2009 6:07 pm
We need a ship to open a hyperspace window for the rock to pass through the planet or something. Hey that would be an awesome episode story! 
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November 3, 2009 7:13 pm
For what it's worth:
My theory: it's an animation being projected onto the lens of our telescope by an alien ship to confuse us.
November 3, 2009 8:33 pm
We need to stop everything and do a full review of the movie Armageddon.
Everything we need to know about destroying the meteor before raining doom upon us all will be found within this classic instructional video.
Either that or we just ask Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, or John Red to stand in it's path and let it bounce harmlessly off his chest.
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November 3, 2009 10:46 pm
To weigh in on the nomenclature: I think asteroids orbit the Sun, unless they’re busy attacking small, triangular spaceships, and this object is a meteoroid. Although, if it’s coming towards us, it may soon be a meteor.
As for what it means, I’m guessing a disruptive and destructive bundle. There are certain advantages to hanging out in chat well past when you should be in bed.
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November 4, 2009 1:19 am
uhhhhh, has anyone seen my towel?
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November 4, 2009 1:23 am
beiju wrote:
To weigh in on the nomenclature: I think asteroids orbit the Sun, unless they’re busy attacking small, triangular spaceships, and this object is a meteoroid. Although, if it’s coming towards us, it may soon be a meteor.
As for what it means, I’m guessing a disruptive and destructive bundle. There are certain advantages to hanging out in chat well past when you should be in bed.
we dont know its orbit so we cant really say what its doing.... we do know its not a planet because it hasnt cleared it orbit of debris (the same reason why pluto got demoted)
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November 4, 2009 1:33 am
Countdown to impact:
1 Day, 22 Hours, 12 Minutes...
Uh, hey folks.
Either that's the Yonanda arc ship off course again,
or like we're totally done for!
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Where's an obelisk with an asteroid deflection beam when you need one?!
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November 4, 2009 1:48 am
It's an asteroid. Meteoroids are between 100 µm and 10 m across. The NEO definition includes larger objects, up to 50 m in diameter. That thing has craters it is too big to be a meteoriod. After it enters the atmosphere it is a Bolide or since it is so big, a Superbolide (a very large impactor). If it doesn't burn up and lands on the surface it is a Meteorite.
If it is a spaceship, we need to break in and get the loot before it burns up.
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November 4, 2009 2:26 am
Guys, guys...... you got it all wrong. It is the Death Star 3, that's what it is and we need an intergalactic space modulator to destroy it. It is obstructing our view of Venus.
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November 4, 2009 4:05 am
I think that asteroid will have a Stargate inside...will be easy to get the loot
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November 4, 2009 4:50 am
Meteoroid
Asteroid
Hemorrhoid
Whatever it is, its funny it is going to hit on 11/6/09 - the same day Droid is out
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November 4, 2009 5:19 am
No worries here, Green Monkeys will take care of the situation. Taking the final ride!
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November 4, 2009 5:40 am
twodogsguy wrote:
No worries here, Green Monkeys will take care of the situation. Taking the final ride!
lol, love your avitar.
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November 4, 2009 6:06 am
I think it's just a piece of meat from last week on the lens of our telescope.
No worry.
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November 4, 2009 6:21 am
MobileMii wrote:
I think it's just a piece of meat from last week on the lens of our telescope.
No worry.
mmmmm... meat. it WAS a messy meal...
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November 4, 2009 6:22 am
bobnojio wrote:
MobileMii wrote:I think it's just a piece of meat from last week on the lens of our telescope.
No worry.mmmmm... meat. it WAS a messy meal...
Or was it from last year? Or from that year before that… I've never used that telescope!
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November 4, 2009 6:26 am
rbr sez: "Is it me, or is it getting bigger?"
Ah, that's it! It's not getting closer. It's getting BIGGER!
What we have here is an anti-black hole! Now if we could just divert it into the center of our galaxy, it would strike the Milky Way black hole and the two of them would eliminate each other!
Then there'd be this big space hole in the center of our galaxy with nothing in it. We could fill it full of CO2 and solve the Earth's climate and ocean disasters! See, I solved this year's heist already. I'll take my prizes now please!
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November 4, 2009 7:19 am
I am sorry to inform you all that you are in fact all wrong....
It's the home of the clangers and they are coming....
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November 4, 2009 8:29 am
fuzzbinn wrote:
Ummm... Less focus on naming and more focus on giant rock flying towards us...?
Humans will die because of strict perfectionism before the giant fake shooting star even gets close to the moon.
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November 4, 2009 10:00 am
superstein61 wrote:
Meteoroid
Asteroid
HemorrhoidWhatever it is, its funny it is going to hit on 11/6/09 - the same day Droid is out
Humm, real! 5 hours exactly between Droid is out then Macheist got impact...
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November 4, 2009 11:50 am