Originally Posted by Acavado

Nothing happened so no worry. Good to be alive.

Next time when we predict one actually hits, attach giant rockets to earth: move out of the way. Profit.

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Originally Posted by Acavado

Nothing happened so no worry. Good to be alive.

Next time when we predict one actually hits, attach giant rockets to earth: move out of the way. Profit.

...

:>

Originally Posted by thedarkblood

if only we had enough resources to make giant rockets that would be powerful enough to push a very heavy planet like earth out of its orbit.

Originally Posted by Ferras

Don't worry we will get extra support from seagulls.

Originally Posted by Jire

Nuff bolded.

And second of all, google up what's a meteor and what is an asteroid.



Pretty much.



If you didn't know about this and instead you watched Jersey Shore, you're everything wrong in this world.

Jk, but seriously, follow the world's events. And of course it's always good to cite your sources.



It still visited closer to us than the moon, which is closer than most asteroids.



I sense a sarcastic tone in your post, but FYI we didn't have a realistic chance of it hitting us.



Between every particle with mass there is a gravitational attraction. Just in this case the overall energy of the particle (E=mc^2), e.g mass and velocity, weren't sufficient for the asteroid having been captured to orbit us, even though it passed us from nearer than the moon, as mentioned above. Gravity does not really play a part in asteroid collisions, since if an asteroid with enough energy is actually headed anywhere near to our location but not towards us, it would a) be captured by our near-to-center-stronger gravitational attraction field IF it had low enough mass and velocity for it to be attracted to us from a rather far away distance, but an asteroid this small (in energy) would vaporize before it could do any damage b) go straight past us due to more energy per unit of mass which causes earth's gravity to pull the asteroid less.



Stop typing like that; It looks retarded.

Look up the definition of a meteor.

Meteor does not "break" thanks to earth's gravity. Air friction plays the crucial part which does not happen in space, but gravity makes the asteroid burn up somewhat faster. As the asteroid nears the Earth and enters the atmosphere the force G, acceleration due gravity, creates a stronger friction on the surface of the asteroid, mostly due to Newton's first and third laws.

To point out the main flaw in your text (and some others') is that meteor in itself means an object which enters the earth's atmosphere. We called this object which passed the Earth and asteroid because it did not hit us.



We did not almost die, it was not realistically possible for the asteroid to hit us. It was probably more likely for you to have a heart attack and die. When the scientists get worried, you should too. Merely mentioning the words 'asteroid' and 'earth' should not evoke fear.