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Asteroid a MILE wide due to skim past Earth THIS WEEK - as experts warn of MASS EXTINCTION (+Video)

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A COLOSSAL asteroid hurtling through space is feared to be one of the biggest EVER to threaten a collision with Earth.

Asteroid 1999 FN53  is travelling faster than 30,000 mph and will brush terrifyingly close to Earth on Thursday.The asteroid is currently hurtling around the Earth fifty times faster than a jumbo jet and double the speed of a space rocket..

Though several million miles away astronomers fear a slight deviation from its orbit will put it on a headlong collision course with the planet.

The gigantic missile thought to measure almost a mile across will brush closer than previous monsters which have sparked a global panic.Worried astronomers warned 1999 FN53, which is an eighth of the size of Mount Everest, will skim the Earth in THREE DAYS.

A collision would be nothing short of catastrophic triggering mass destruction, earthquakes and global extinction. The monster is more than TEN TIMES bigger than other meteorites currently visible on NASA’s Near Earth Object radar.

It is also double the size of the gargantuan 2014-YB35 which had astronomers around the world watching the skies in March.

Experts warn a collision would trigger an explosion similar to millions of megatons of TNT and would be capable of killing 1.5 billion people.

NASA’s Near Earth Object Programme puts the enormous lump of rock on course to pass within six million miles of Earth on May 14. In astronomical terms this is a tiny distance and close enough to prompt astronomers to keep an eye on it until is passes safely.

EXPRESS UK
Read more here:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/576300/Asteroid-1999-FN53-Earth-May-14-mass-extinction-NASA

Goldstone Asteroid Schedule
Upcoming Goldstone Observations  http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/1999FN53/1999FN53_planning.html
This object was observed by NASA’s NEOWISE mission in mid-April.  Preliminary results reported by J. Masierto suggest a diameter of roughly 1 km.
Last update: 2015 Apr 27 
 

Lunar Meteorite Hunter  http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.gr/2015/04/neo-asteroids-may-2015-close-approaches.htm
 

 

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    • westgate

      “The asteroid is currently hurtling around the Earth fifty times faster than a jumbo jet and double the speed of a space rocket..”
      “Experts warn a collision would trigger an explosion similar to millions of megatons of TNT and would be capable of killing 1.5 billion people.” HOWEVER,
      “NASA’s Near Earth Object Programme puts the enormous lump of rock on course to pass within six million miles of Earth on May 14.”
      26.5 LD – A far cry from more recent approaches within 1 LD. Yes, 0.6 au is close proximity compared with say, the sun,
      however it is far fetched to proclaim that it is hurtling around the Earth or we are at risk of an impact affecting a billion and a half people. What are you trying to do, Elias? Start a panic for nothing? The one that gets us will have no warning.

      • truthzilla

        Oh, it will have a warning, and you’ll have no doubt about it coming…All the government will disappear into the DUMBS worldwide…You’ll get a notice maybe a few days before it happens…Always be prepared.

        • Bossmanrocks

          Prepared for what? How could anyone possibly prepare for something like that? Or even Yellowstone blowing it’s cap? Or even nuclear bombs hitting the US?

          I have to laugh when I read some of the comments here. Stock up on food and water. Make sure you have enough ammunition and you’re locked and loaded. Make sure you have a shelter in your basement or dug in the ground. How funny. That shelter may wind up being your tomb. All your stocks might incinerate before your eyes along with your family and yourself. We should always try to be prepared for any emergency but as the people in Texas just found out (tornados), even the best emergency plan can get blown away in an instant.

        • Anonymous

          the last card? or the second to the last card? lolol more NWO crap

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR4rZ2bD8CE

      • PaulTarsuss

        One could focus on what might happen to them, OR….one could focus on how they could be happening to the world, or at least those around them.

        /spies-and-intelligence/2015/05/mt-everest-shrinks-hawaii-rumbles-their-connections-are-important-but-why-2447232.html

        That is happening at this moment….and it is affecting each reader in a unique way. There are those who choose to take stock in they amazingly accurate warnings foretold long ago, for this precise moment in world history, and those who wish to hide their heads in denial.

        The more His Word unfolds to the letter, the more one opts out of man’s foolishness toward his fellow man, and the more one wishes to serve God and his fellow man.

        Good Journeys

    • somejackball

      it ain’t gonna hit so why even give a crap that it’s out there? ohhhh nooo, a big rock in space, here it comes!!

      Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………..

    • WestVirginaMan

      Bat Boy will come out of the cave and save us all!!! :evil:

    • ghostlea

      I would suggest you look at -hisz rsoe hu alert map.!!
      14 may 2015 has 5 coming in.
      2012 MU2. LD-44.7 SIZE 180-410 M
      2015 MU9. LD-46.2 SIZE 56-120 M
      2011 SM68 LD-75,7 SIZE 320-710 M
      2015HZ116 LD-27.0 SIZE 32-71 M
      2015 HR1 LD 29.3 SIZE 32-71 M
      Your 1999 FN53 is here on the 13 may FN53 LD-26.4 SIZE 510-1.3KM
      There is lots of rocks just this month stop with the fear porn,it not funny or good journalism.

    • Central Scrutinizer

      Emphasis on the “SKIM PAST EARTH’ part of the title.

      NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • DRJerkins

      “a slight deviation from its orbit will put it on a headlong collision course with the planet.”

      Fortunately, we have the laws of physics to prevent just such from happening.

      • CrowPie

        as ghostlea said….

        14 may 2015 has 5 coming in.
        2012 MU2. LD-44.7 SIZE 180-410 M
        2015 MU9. LD-46.2 SIZE 56-120 M
        2011 SM68 LD-75,7 SIZE 320-710 M
        2015HZ116 LD-27.0 SIZE 32-71 M
        2015 HR1 LD 29.3 SIZE 32-71 M
        Your 1999 FN53 is here on the 13 may FN53 LD-26.4 SIZE 510-1.3KM

        So about your ‘laws of physics…ever play a game of billiards and bank a ball off three rails into the corner pocket?

      • Bossmanrocks

        Apparently the author doesn’t know that. Maybe he never took a physics course.

    • americancrusader

      1999 FN53 passed over 5 million miles away from Earth on May 1st.

      this ‘news’ is all disinfo.

    • nightowl26a

      lets just send Bruce willis up there and drill a hole and blow this asteroid up in peaces!!!

    • Knave Dave

      Only six million miles away! That’s 1/15th the distance between the earth and the sun. We have just about as good of a chance of being hit by Venus!

      “Astronomers fear…” Can you name even one astronomer that is even slightly concerned about a distance so enormous?

      It’s going to “brush closer than previous monsters” that scared us? I don’t think so. Previous monsters came close enough to get between the earth and the moon. Now, that’s a bit of a close brush, but this one is many times the moon’s distance from us.

      “A slight deviation from its orbit” will put it on track to hit us? That would be one of an infinite number of possible deviations, and would only be slight if “slight” means a massive shift completely out of its present orbit to an orbit that doesn’t bear even a slight resemblance. Do you mean that kind of “slight deviation?”

      You’re a silly fear monger, starved for attention who thrives on adrenaline.

    • Judynz

      I see fear porn. Therein lies the biggest threat to our world & humanity. FEAR.
      How many times have we had similar warnings when a distraction is needed?

      If those giving out these warnings were so afraid, why would they continue to bull headedly march forward trying to gain control of everything & creating wars & misery for everyone?

      If it really does mean THE END for all none of us would be around to worry about it.
      If the event was only going to kill most of us then those would be thugs who want to control everything & only want a few million humans to live on earth, would have the job done for them. They just have to sit back and wait.

      Nah, they know if `The people can stay away from fear, all threats OF ANYTHING, “ALL” can be neutralized.’ Such is the power of within every human being.

      All social systems are designed to create insecurity and fear for the precise reason of depriving us from realizing how powerful each of us are.

    • Terry L Smith

      The OP stated that:
      “NASA’s Near Earth Object Programme puts the enormous lump of rock on course to pass within six million miles of Earth on May 14.”
      Really??
      6 million miles equals 9656064 km.
      1 Lunar Distance equals 363341 km.

      THEREFORE, the OP stated that this humongous, stupendous piece of rock is going to pass by the Earth …
      at the hair on the arm closeness of TWENTY SIX PLUS ‘L.D.;s’!!!

      Now ….. the OP has stated nothing about that newly found big and deep crater in the snow and ice of ANTARTICA!!!

      As one responder noted, the one that will get us will not be noticed, and I add, it will come in from the southern polar region. Why? We look to the Arctic, because a nuclear missile, or olden days nuclear bomber attack, would be coming from the northern pole. Antarctica has been deemed an area for international research, and officially, has no standing military installations, therefore, no compulsion to monitor for attacks from that direction, and as such, no major radar nets looking towards the South Pole.

      The OP stated:
      “the asteroid is traveling at double the speed of a space rocket.” That would put the piece of rock at a speed of 80, 000 mph. Voyager One is STILL traveling at a speed of 38, 000mph. Again, the OP is in ownership of faulty knowledge.

      I deeply love posters like this OP, because they show themselves to be ignorant of science, even with the huge amount of correct knowledge available to them, whether by keyboard, or god forbid, a book!

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