asteroid on path to hit earth in 2036

[Armond]

Oh shit!!!

The head of the Russian space agency said today that it was considering a Hollywood-style mission to send a spacecraft to bump a large asteroid from a possible collision course with Earth.

Anatoly Perminov told the Russian radio station Golos Rossii: "People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people."

The mission would be aimed at an asteroid called Apophis, he said, which is expected to pass close to the Earth in 2029 and again in 2036. "Calculations show that it's possible to create a special-purpose spacecraft within the time we have, which would help avoid the collision. The threat of collision can be averted."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/30/russia-plan-save-earth-asteroid

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g-NtMHSdrWginRoUJPLcI7Ak38aw

[KFunk]

waste of time.

When Apophis was discovered in 2004, astronomers made headlines when they said there was a one in 37 chance that the 350-metre-wide rock would collide with Earth in 2029. Further studies ruled out such an impact, but there remains a one in 250,000 chance it could strike in 2036.

[SteveJ]

As it is with many sports, and life in general: It's the ones you don't see that get you.

Me? I'm gonna party like it's 2029!

[Armond]

that's a few years before my house is paid in full. WTF!!

that's it..I'm moving to an apartment