Brace Yourselves! Solar Superstorm on the way.

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http://news.sky.com/story/1048727/solar-superstorm...

Spotted this in the news earlier.

How are we supposed to brace oursleves?
What should I hang on to?

and, aparently there is a 45km wide asteriod passing 17,000 miles away from earth soon.

We're all doomed I tell you!

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Hoofy said:

Seems like a good idea for a new tax.

I did think that atthe time but I was trying to think of a way that it could all me linked to C02 and MMuGW.


I'm sure Al will find a way.

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I was rather hoping that it might completely knock out the Galileo Sat system and kill any dreams of road pricing via GPS.

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Daxed said:

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and, aparently there is a 45km wide asteriod passing 17,000 miles away from earth soon.

m, not km

can someone call Bruce, Quick!!

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AshVX220 said:

Tim330 said:

At only 45m wide & 17,000miles I would say say no

We can see the sun reflecting off Satellites and they're much smaller and further away, no? Or are the ones we can see a lot closer due to their moving orbits?

Shame, would be good if there were some cool way to track and film it.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

ISS is at an altitude of 259 miles and is clearly visible with the naked eye, but is much smaller than the asteroid.

Would the mahooosive size of the asteroid compensate for the distance??

Over to the PH mathematicians...