2004 MN4

I worked it out ................... plonk it in Google !!

Very good , Pedro and Lucy

Eastern side of Melbourne Lucy.

"Monitoring of this event telescopically and with devices placed on the asteroid's surface could reveal the nature of its interior, and provide us insight into how to deal with it should it ever threaten collision," Scheeres said.

The asteroid will be visible in the night sky of Europe, Africa and Western Asia.

The asteroid was discovered late last year and initially scientists gave it a 1-in-300 chance of hitting the Earth on April 13, 2029. Subsequent analysis of new and archived pre-discovery images showed that Apophis won't collide with Earth that day, but that later in 2035, 2036, and 2037 there remains a 1-in-6,250 chance that the asteroid could hit Earth, Scheeres said. Conversely, that's a 99.98 percent chance that the asteroid will miss Earth.

The asteroid is relatively small, about the length of three football fields. If it hit it wouldn't create wide-scale damage to the Earth, but would cause major damage at the impact site, Scheeres said.

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Willie
Hows you goin' Hey I had a look at that little unit on the web, looks quite good , I had the Uniden 301, Now got an EVO ,
The best way to stop it doing anything is that just before you go to bed tonight take it and place it just behind the rear wheel of your 4x4, when you back out in the morning .......problem fixed big time,
OK thanks for the slap on the ear , Willie if you go to this web site and download the manual [if you don't have one] you might be able sort it out in there but most of these gadgets have some way of switching warnings of for each section.

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Just to the right of this

GPS Road Safety Warning
System with Voice Assistance

Doug

Willie
Just re-read your post . mate if it's going off every few minutes maybe you live within Cooeee of a Red light camera,......just a thought !!!!
I tried to read the manual on line but it kept going on about debug BS and shuts the site down so will download it and have a look,

Willie
Page 37 of the manual explains how to turn off individual warnings

Doug ,

I could not get past page one on the manual without it crashing . My paper booklet manual only goes to page 35 !

So what did you do to get to read the manual and what does page 37 say ?

If you have not got time to answer , let Dusty do it .

Thanks ,

Willie .

Willie
Open it again but don't try to go more pages , just click the little floppy disc save icon on the left , it is a pdf file , about 1.35 mb, once you have it on the hard drive it works fine.

Doug

OK Doug , thanks a lot - Willie

It's on its way Willie

What about the Governor of Cal'
anyhow I have just done writing to my Federal Member , anyone else can do the same ,because it is a democratic country and if some of you want to support him then go for it , My main concern is not the immediate future but somewhere down the track big trouble is brewing , probably long after we have all gone,

www.aph.gov.au/house/members/mi-state.asp

Doug

Should move this over to the appropriate thread ;-) I still vote for an edit button on EO ....

Andrew

Andrew
Yes I agree, lets gaet back to the other part of my dual post 4x4 parking , this woman is the one that appears on the Sunrise show , I think they just put the mouth into motion before the brain is engaged , A lot of the 4x4s are more economical than a V8 falcon , what about the the guy with a Jimny , is he going to be hit to ,

Doug

NO MORE habib COMMENTS NOW PLEASE

Don't worry, her story will fade away in a day or two.......parking space is parking space. Unless someone is providing larger parking spots (or the sizing standards decrease) then i'm sure the idea will not take off. I'm sure the jimny driver would challenge any such action :-)

Just another reason to leave the big smoke and get out into the real world where these things aren't an issue.

Andrew

Yeh I suppose your right Andrew, but it's damn annoying when someone gets on TV and sprooks off and gets thier point across to the whole nation in an instant.

Don't think I will be worrying about much come 2029, but looking at all the stats from past impacts we are well over due for a BIG one.
Apophis belongs to a group called the "Aten asteroids", asteroids with an orbital semi-major axis less than one astronomical unit. This particular one has an orbital period about the Sun of 323 days, and its path brings it across Earth's orbit twice on each passage around the Sun.So it's only a matter of time and this one is only small and will create an explosion of 880 megatons of TNT The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was the equivalent of roughly 200 megatons.

Doug, you're scaring the proverbials out of me! 4 time larger than the Krak will mean a decent tidal wave if it hit water. Now I'll have to pack the tinnie as well or find a high point a long way inland. Hope I can still start the outboard in my old age. You said small and we are overdue for a BIG one!

Kind regards

Beatit

Hey I just found one hell of a 4x4 story and Impact story combined ,
And this was only a small one that hit in Sand Dunes , It's different

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/jwynn/1998SciAm-Wabar.pdf

Doug