Anyone heard anyhing about an asteroid hitting earth on 080808?

Question

my daughter and i were watching the discovery channel i think and heard something about an asteroid hitting earth on 080808 pls someone tell me something!?

Answer 1

Sorry but you've been fooled, it's a hoax.

Answer 2

If there was an asteroid on a collision course due to hit in another month or so:

1. It would be BIG news everywhere (you wouldn't just "hear something about an asteroid...") - CNN, Oprah, Dr. Phil, would all be talking about nothing else.

2. It would be visible in the night sky to all the hundreds of amateur astronomers watching the skies every night

I love the "repeating numbers" predictions - as though anything in the universe even knows about our arbitrary calendar.  

So we can start to worry about 09/09/09, 10/10/10 and then the big one 11/11/11 - all ones, that MUST be a big deal.

Answer 3

Another "NUMBERS" deal ! WOW! It must be TRUE!

Answer 4

060606 and 070707 were also supposed to be dates of horrific disasters or something, and nothing happened there. So 080808 should come and go as normal.

Answer 5

lol jondalar!

Answer 6

nope never heard of that.  I did hear about how the world's going to end in four years though.  The aztec calander ended there

Answer 7

never heard that one, but there is supposed to be an asteroid impact in 2036.

Answer 8

You know how asteroids are: always waiting until some funny pattern comes up in the numbers for the date on the Julian calendar, then they decide it's a good time to smack into Earth. It's the numbers, yeah. Asteroids are big on numerology.

Answer 9

The space agency does have a few asteroid missions already planned. In its just-released 2008 budget, NASA said it is studying a mission, dubbed the Origins Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security (OSIRIS) probe, to return rock samples from an asteroid

RQ36 is roughly 580 meters in diameter, or about two-fifths of a mile. It orbits between about 83 million and 126 million miles from the sun, swinging within about 280,000 miles of Earth orbit, or roughly 40,000 miles more distant than the moon. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center has officially classified RQ36 as a "potentially hazardous asteroid."

"It doesn't present any near-term hazard, but the small Yarkovsky push over hundreds of orbits may eventually be enough to cause an 'oops'," said Nuth.

Answer 10

Oh no the numbers repeat the world is going to end.

Answer 11

I seriously doubt it. If this were true, we'd probably already officially know about it. Also the various space agencies around the world would be working very hard to either destroy it or alter it's path.

  If 08/08/08 is the end of the world then i don't have to go to court! (just a money thing though, nothing big). I love it when foolish people have nothing better to do but believe that certain numbers or dates mean imediate doom for us all!

  Lol, beware of 09/09/09 after all 3 nines are supposidly bad also! Sorry but until it's proven otherwise i don't believe in this bs speculation.

Answer 12

Goodbye then.

That is nonsense.

Answer 13

There are no asteroids or comets currently predicted to hit the Earth on or near that date (or any other), according to NASA-JPL's Near Earth Object web site:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

Answer 14

You mean the opening day of the Olympic Games in China is the end of the world as we know it?

:-)

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