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Coming in 2036: Armageddon II, This Time With Feeling

NASA has identified a small asteroid, Apophis, as a possible threat to Earth in 2036 and is drawing up plans to land someone on it. They're watching Armageddon and taking copious notes.

Chris McKay of the Nasa Johnson Space Centre in Houston told the website Space.com: "There's a lot of public resonance with the notion that Nasa ought to be doing something about killer asteroids ... to be able to send serious equipment to an asteroid.

"The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. So being able to have astronauts go out there and sort of poke one with a stick would be scientifically valuable as well as demonstrate human capabilities."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1950258,00.html

Posted by Ed Z on November 17, 2006 03:54 PM |

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Now all we need is a back up plan.....TO THE VIDEO STORE!!!

Posted by: Grim [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 17, 2006 08:29 PM

Someone tape it, I don't want to miss a thing.

Posted by: morpheus [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2006 08:07 AM

I hear they're using Deep Impact as the backup plan.

Posted by: Ed Z | November 21, 2006 09:34 AM

Ugh,Morgan Freeman in "DEEP IMPACT"?? Show me Morgan Fairchild in "DEEP SOMETHING". Ah,ah! aahhh,you don't get!

Posted by: Grim [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 21, 2006 07:04 PM

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