Meteor hitting the earth in 2029??

Question

I'm getting really freaked out by this theory. Is it true or are these just somethings that people are just saying. I heard from a ton of sources that this isn't true and that it's going to go past the earth and look like a shooting star and that things hit the earth all the time. I NEED REASSURANCE!! but also the TRUTH

pleaseeee. =)

Answer 1

I wouldn't worry about a meteor hitting us around that time, but would be more worried if the "Moon" suddenly decides to leave us & our Solar System. Just out of interest, if our Moon did move away from us for whatever reason, that would be the end of Earth & all life on it, as our planet would gravitationally tear itself apart. So in answering your question, "yes", we definitely have something to worry about in the future around that time, but I think it will come from a totally unexpected source ie: "The MOON". Lets hope & pray I am wrong about this & it never happens, but if it does, the only solace we will have is that there was nothing we could do about it.

Cheers !  

Answer 2

The asteroid Apophis will make a close fly by of earth in 2029 and if it passes through a very small keyhole of opportunity it could come back in 2036 and hit earth. Got to Ask  an Astrobiologist  at Nasa, they have lots of info on it.

Answer 3

Wikipedia has the truth. And if you don't like Wikipedia, it cites sources and you can go to those sources yourself.

Asteroid Apophis will miss in 2029. And even if it did hit, it is way too small to wipe out all life on Earth. It would just make a big crater where it hit and disturb the weather about as much as a really large volcano eruption would.

Answer 4

Relax... It's not like we will be wiped out by a metor anytime soon.  If you believe in God you know that he will probably end our time in earth a much better way.  But if you need reassurance then this is what i say and it is the truth.

Back a couple years ago the world was coming to an ice age, and we were all going to die in a few years... Did it happen? No.

  Global warming was going to heat up, and we were going to die pretty soon.  Are we dead? No.

  A huge metor is going to hit the earth in the 20th century.  Did it hit the earth? No.

  And now, Another metor is coming and this will be the end.  Because it will arrive sometime in 2029 and cause a sonic boom.  Will it happen? No.  If it does it will be harmless. It is just a theory.  Just because some guy lookes through a telescope and see's rock heading our way.

normally our earths shield prevents this from happening.  Millions of gaint rocks fly through space towards earth but they never hit earth because a sheild surrounds us.  2029 will be another year for different worries then a metor.

Answer 5

Well yeah, a meteor will probably hit Earth in 2029. And every year up to and past that year. Earth gets hit by meteorites every day, but most of them are so small they burn up in our atmosphere. Will one of them be large enough to wipe us out? Unlikely.

Answer 6

I never heard it was going to hit in 2029? I heard it was going to hit in 2012! But I've not seen any actual SCIENCE on it, the "scientists" that predicted it were the Mayans, and, while they did predict Haley's Comet and meteor showers and other stuff that was a little beyond what we think they should be able to do, they are now extinct due to overzealous use of their land and corrupt government, so how smart were they?

Answer 7

First off, it's not a theory, it's a fact. Secondly, it's not a meteor, it's an asteroid. They think it will miss us by something like 100,000+ miles.

Answer 8

Meteors hit the earth every day.  But they are mostly far too small to reach the surface, and burn up in the atmosphere.  There is no particular reason to expect that a meteor large enough to cause damage will strike the earth in that year, or any other, although it has happened from time to time.  The meteor crater in Arizona is millions of years old.

Answer 9

The future for Apophis on Friday, April 13 of 2029 includes an approach to Earth no closer than 29,470 km (18,300 miles, or 5.6 Earth radii from the centre, or 4.6 Earth-radii from the surface) over the mid-Atlantic, appearing to the naked eye as a moderately bright point of light moving rapidly across the sky. Depending on its mechanical nature, it could experience shape or spin-state alteration due to tidal forces caused by Earth's gravity field.

This is within the distance of Earth's geosynchronous satellites. However, because Apophis will pass interior to the positions of these satellites at closest approach, in a plane inclined at 40 degrees to the Earth's equator and passing outside the equatorial geosynchronous zone when crossing the equatorial plane, it does not threaten the satellites in that heavily populated region.

Using criteria developed in this research, new measurements possible in 2013 (if not 2011) will likely confirm that in 2036 Apophis will quietly pass more than 49 million km (30.5 million miles; 0.32 AU) from Earth on Easter Sunday of that year (April 13).

The Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has not changed its current estimates for the very low probability (1 in 45,000) of an Earth impact by the asteroid Apophis in 2036.  

Answer 10

Yeah and there will be a nuclear war in 2021

Answer 11

No thats just another date people are making up after the world doesn't end in 2012, dont worry.

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