Comments on: Latest News on Apophis: 13 -year-old Boy Corrects NASA’s Estimates of Earth Impact — Not! (Update)

By: Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:55:56 +0000

Sorry Kael’thas, you can’t bubble your way out of this problem.

By: marcellus

marcellus — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:23:45 +0000

Skyviee, I love you man. I’m cancelling my trip to Borneo.

No Golf Channel!!

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:42:56 +0000

Well said Nuno!

By: Mandie

Mandie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:06:52 +0000

In this article it says the Earth will suffer significant damage, dust will darken the sky indefinitely, it will cause tsunamis etc. but in another article from August 22nd, 2005 it states that it would cause no damage to the Earth, only to the impact site. Is this conclusion based on information we didn’t have in 2005?

By: Corvidae

Corvidae — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:38:09 +0000

lldiaz, the Xprize contests haven’t even reached orbit. They have no significant payload capacity, and no ability to escape earths gravity to reach the moon or further out.

Nasa on the other hand is heading back to the moon just after their probe checks out Pluto on it’s way to the Oort cloud. And if things go smoothly, we’ll have another probe on Mars very soon as well.

By: giovanni

giovanni — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:18:44 +0000

one think is certain a major asteroid will eventually enter in collision with planet earth whether its 2029 or a million years from then and whether it wipes out every form of life from the planet or not it wont make a wink of difference mother earth will continue revolving aroud its sun once a solar year around itself and through its cycle of the four seasons unconcerned.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:40 +0000

I agreed with the statement about checking facts when the news involves a potential risk to the population as a general rule, but to be fair, this risk isn’t really that immediate.

2029 is still more than 20 years away, so I can’t imagine anyone reading the incorrect story would have irrationally panicked about the end of the world.

*shrug* just my two cents I guess

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:58:07 +0000

To Cyberjack & Steve;

An object with an estimated mass of 4.6Ã—1010 kg and travelling around 30,000km an hour hitting the ocean will do more than burn up a significant amount of water. It will bore all the way through to the bottom and creat a large crater. That’s where the massive amount of dust comes from.

Dana

By: Nuno

Nuno — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:28:44 +0000

On the other hand, if you’re writing a article based on another news article, who can blame you to put some faith on the job that others have already done?

I am always more prone to trust what i read (specialy in Universe Today) than to question everything.

Fraser is doing a very good job.

Keep it up.

Nuno

By: Nuno

Nuno — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:17:40 +0000

When news involve announcement of potential risk to some population, it’s irresponsible not to check everything.

From time to time inacuracies occur and thus disagreeing calculations, it’s the way that the issue was handled that was wrong.

Nowadays the means of comunication can avoid these kind of public messes, it’s a matter of will… and being serious.

Nuno G