T5RE: Pic Of The Day-KLM B747
Nice pic… I particularly like the effect light has on the fog – the way you can actually see the beam!
T5RE: My picture of the day ,
Very nice close up.
T5RE: Asteroid approaching earth.
LOL… Duplicated!
Totally Bonkers – I’m on 700 posts!
T5RE: Asteroid approaching earth.
LOL… Duplicated!
Totally Bonkers – I’m on 700 posts!
T5RE: Asteroid approaching earth.
I read about the first report on the BBC News site the other day, surprised it had hadn’t been brought up sooner:
(Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2158898.stm)
Astronomers have ruled out an Earth impact from asteroid 2002 NT7 on 1 February 2019 – but they say, as yet, future collisions have not been completely excluded.
2002 NT7, a two-kilometre-wide (1.4 miles) chunk of rock, was discovered on 9 July. Initial estimates of its orbit suggested there was a small chance of it colliding with our planet in 17 years’ time.
However, the latest observations accumulated over the last few days have confirmed the asteroid will fly harmlessly by.
Dr Don Yeomans, of the US space agency’s (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: “We can now rule out any impact possibilities for 1 February 2019.”
Uncharted space
But further work needs to be done to confirm that 2002 NT7 is not a threat further into the future.
Dr Yeomans added: “While we cannot completely rule out an impact possibility for 1 February 2060, it seems very likely that this possibility will soon be ruled out as well.”
Analysts expect that it will be several more weeks before new observations allow a much better picture to emerge about 2002 NT7’s future movements.
This is because no past observations – that could be used to pinpoint its trajectory – have been found in astronomical archives. This is because the asteroid’s unusual orbit takes it into regions of space that are seldom surveyed.
But astronomers say that their concern about 2002 NT7 has not evaporated completely.
Media debate
According to Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, we should not be celebrating too quickly.
“It would be prudent to caution interested observers that further observations in the near future could result in new impact dates,” he told BBC News Online.
“There is even a very small possibility that the next set of observations may lead to new impact dates and a prolonged period of fluctuating impact probabilities, before the object will eventually be dropped,” he said.
The intense worldwide interest in 2002 NT7 has prompted a debate in the astronomical community.
Following the object’s discovery, and the realisation that it could strike the Earth in 2019, astronomers decided to make no announcement whilst they monitored the situation.
Some astronomers have been unhappy with what they see as alarmist reporting in the media, and they say that the policy on public disclosure of such information should be reviewed.
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The first one they reported on was supposedly large enough to wipe out an entire continent – but considering the world is 75% water, it would stand more chance of striking the sea and causing a huge tidal wave causing damage to more than a continent!
Face it, 58 years from now, we’ll all be nearing death (sounds grim, but we will if we aren’t already) and if technology carries on getting better at the same rate it is at the moment, we’ve nothing to worry about. We’ve got almost 6 decades to do something, why don’t they start designing an asteroid destroyer now?!
T5RE: Asteroid approaching earth.
I read about the first report on the BBC News site the other day, surprised it had hadn’t been brought up sooner:
(Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2158898.stm)
Astronomers have ruled out an Earth impact from asteroid 2002 NT7 on 1 February 2019 – but they say, as yet, future collisions have not been completely excluded.
2002 NT7, a two-kilometre-wide (1.4 miles) chunk of rock, was discovered on 9 July. Initial estimates of its orbit suggested there was a small chance of it colliding with our planet in 17 years’ time.
However, the latest observations accumulated over the last few days have confirmed the asteroid will fly harmlessly by.
Dr Don Yeomans, of the US space agency’s (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: “We can now rule out any impact possibilities for 1 February 2019.”
Uncharted space
But further work needs to be done to confirm that 2002 NT7 is not a threat further into the future.
Dr Yeomans added: “While we cannot completely rule out an impact possibility for 1 February 2060, it seems very likely that this possibility will soon be ruled out as well.”
Analysts expect that it will be several more weeks before new observations allow a much better picture to emerge about 2002 NT7’s future movements.
This is because no past observations – that could be used to pinpoint its trajectory – have been found in astronomical archives. This is because the asteroid’s unusual orbit takes it into regions of space that are seldom surveyed.
But astronomers say that their concern about 2002 NT7 has not evaporated completely.
Media debate
According to Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, we should not be celebrating too quickly.
“It would be prudent to caution interested observers that further observations in the near future could result in new impact dates,” he told BBC News Online.
“There is even a very small possibility that the next set of observations may lead to new impact dates and a prolonged period of fluctuating impact probabilities, before the object will eventually be dropped,” he said.
The intense worldwide interest in 2002 NT7 has prompted a debate in the astronomical community.
Following the object’s discovery, and the realisation that it could strike the Earth in 2019, astronomers decided to make no announcement whilst they monitored the situation.
Some astronomers have been unhappy with what they see as alarmist reporting in the media, and they say that the policy on public disclosure of such information should be reviewed.
—
The first one they reported on was supposedly large enough to wipe out an entire continent – but considering the world is 75% water, it would stand more chance of striking the sea and causing a huge tidal wave causing damage to more than a continent!
Face it, 58 years from now, we’ll all be nearing death (sounds grim, but we will if we aren’t already) and if technology carries on getting better at the same rate it is at the moment, we’ve nothing to worry about. We’ve got almost 6 decades to do something, why don’t they start designing an asteroid destroyer now?!
T5RE: Wideroe’s new c/s
Oh.. first I’ve seen of the old scheme but it’s a vast improvement, the new livery is far superior.
T5RE: Mid-Air
I very frequently go on about the skies of London. I’m close to Heathrow and see the air traffic going out or coming into Heathrow every day.
I’m not convinced that the media do blow such events out of proportion and I know we’re told not to believe everything we read in a newspaper but our skies our becoming worse on a daily basis.
I also questioned the proposed developments at airports over the UK; especially those in London. Surely, more terminals and more runways are going to be a reason to accept more air traffic when it can’t be controlled. Our air traffic control is falling to pieces, but is this because the staff are not trained or is it because there is too greater workload on the controllers?
The introduction of the A380 is also going to cause havoc, especially in London. Most airports will require new, longer runways to allow for the monster… yet again, more traffic in our skies.
Just how will air traffic chahnge over the coming years? Airports boast of how may passengers they handle each year and the new Airliner World top 100 airports list tells us just how dangerous the situation is. Heathrow is ranked 4th and 60,024,541 passed through in 2001. Gatwick is ranked 20th and carried 31,182,361 passengers. With Stansted (13,660,943), London Luton and London City, in excess of 100 million people fly over the country’s capital every year – and that figure is growing. The media tell us our skies our too crowded and we should believe it…
T5RE: What ever happend to?
Was ‘Airworld’ the airline which worked with the travel company, Sunworld?
T5RE: Wideroe’s new c/s
Sounds crazy but that’s not an airline I’m familiar with. The scheme looks good to me though, keeping things simple seems to be the latest craze as we’ve seen with the Aerolineas Argentinas livery and the charter airline, Air 2000 which went from pink, yellow, blue etc to different shades of green.
Nice aircraft.
T5RE: Interesting day at EMA
Cool..
At the Air Show yesterday, the programme had a feature length article about the Embraer 170 and named it as aircraft of the year. Also, the A340-600 was there in the Airbus “House Colours” and this is going to Virgin Atlantic. But that sounded great, did you get some photos?
T5RE: Pic Of the Day-Lauda777
Great photo.
T5RE: Croatia Airlines pics
Has anyone actually been to Croatia? In the UK, they’re trying to turn it into a package holiday destination.
Great pics by the way.
T5RE: Another Crash
sorry…
I mean there are more boeing/airbus aircraft in the world compared to those made by the Russians.
T5RE: Another Crash
I questioned Russian aircraft a few months back. To me, it seems Russian aircraft: Yakolev, Tupolev, Iluyshin etc crash more frequently than those by the more well known such as Boeing and Airbus. When you think about it, there is definitely more Airbus and boeing aircraft in the world than there are those made by Airbus. So, what is the problem?
Are Russian aircraft not made as well as they should be?
Are they not maintained and kept safe?
Are pilots insufficiently trained?
Surely, it’s one of the three. It’s not good to see that changes aren’t being made. Are these frequent crashes actually being investigated by the aircraft manufacturers?
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