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article from Time magazine :
But imagine we saw our 100-meter asteroid when it was, say, eight months away. NASA would first send out word to the rest of the world’s astronomers, who would begin training their telescopes on it too, something they do already even for benign rocks. They measure light output, rotation rate and trajectory, conducting their own plight-path calculations to help confirm what the NASA software is spitting out. Radio-telescopes at Goldstone Observatory in the Mojave Desert and the Aricebo Observatory in Puerto Rico would swing into position as well, bouncing signals off the rock to determine distance, velocity and doppler shift—or the stretching or compressing of the signals reflecting back to determine the degree to which the object is moving toward or away from the observer.

“There is a small army of worldwide professionals and amateurs doing this,” says Yeomans.

The good thing about so much crowd-sourcing is that when hundreds or thousands of astronomers reach a conclusion, you can be pretty sure it’s a solid one. The bad thing is that when that conclusion is one you don’t like, there’s no court of appeal. In this case, let’s imagine that the conclusion is a truly bad one—that our football-field sized rock would be targeting a populated area. And for the sake of doomsday pizzaz, let’s make that populated area New York City.

 

or stevie g doesnt go after all

 

funnily enough there is an asteroid named 'Santa' -1288 Santa (1933 QM)

 

He's going on loan to Man U next year to play with some real stars.

 

fantastic is there one called Stuart or Della by any chance?

 

But the local p[population would die of starvation if it hits Greggs.

 

(325455) Della Valle &
(3874) Stuart

 

thanks for that

 

Which one`s ours?

 

What really caused the tsunumis in Japan and Thailand ?. Anyhow Man u will be playing in the champions league by then so Fergusson will put a stop to it !

 

You been doodling diddles?

I had a toy like that when I was 5.

 

spirograph

 

But if he did he couldn't say anything due to the Clause in his contract..

 

im trying to be serious here Mr White,....lol

 

I got as far as self proclaimed prophet and God told him. That`s good enough for me (or God enough for me to save RAW the bother).

God should know these things.

I`m going to stay pissed until September. Better still, make that October just in case it`s late.

 

too busy playing right back

 

Huh! Shows you what I know. I thought an asteroid was a pain up the a*se, named after Lady Aster, who was one according to Winston Churchill.

 

Is it her who said to him `you sir, are drunk` and he replied `yes madam, and you are ugly, but tomorrow I`ll be sober`

Don`t know whether it was her but an amazing reply whoever it was.

 

Very likely mate. Another exchange was "Winnie, if I was your mother, I'd poison you." To which the man replied : "Lady Astor, if you were my mother, I'd drink it."

 

Apparently another one of his (on being disturbed in his toilet after a call from the Lord Privy Seal): “Tell him I can only deal with one **** at a time.”