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the oort cloud

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:57 pm
by Astromontufar
when I saw how the oort cloud was, i thought about why not expending some good money to protect us from comets, we are so unprotected, just like what happened on russia

Re: the oort cloud

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:09 am
by deavuky
Astronomers can predict extremely accurately when and where an object is going to hit Earth, if it hits at all. :) The chance of anything hitting at all out of all the things that are in space around us are ridiculously small. No need to worry!

Re: the oort cloud

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:04 am
by Chris Peterson
deavuky wrote:Astronomers can predict extremely accurately when and where an object is going to hit Earth, if it hits at all. :) The chance of anything hitting at all out of all the things that are in space around us are ridiculously small. No need to worry!
Tell that to the residents of Chelyabinsk!