Asteroid Storm 1.2.1

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Asteroid eaters

Asteroid eaters 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
USA Today May 19 2004 11:54PM GMT

Swing and a Miss for Asteroid

Swing and a Miss for Asteroid 08/28/2004 06:11 AM
Wired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT

Asteroid Impact Calculator

Asteroid Impact Calculator 04/13/2004 12:52 PM

Here's a cheerful thought: We're all tooling along, minding our own business, when suddenly an asteroid slams into the earth, wreaking death and destruction in some far-off (or maybe not-so-far-off) place. What effect would the impact, wherever it happened, have here in sunny Sioux Falls, South Dakota?

Leave it to the Department of Planetary Science eggheads at the University of Arizona to put together an online form that will tell you exactly how bad it will be. Just enter a few variables regarding how big the asteroid is, how fast it's travelling, what it's made of, and how far you are from it, and it will spit back at you... "the seismic, blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced by the impact."

Does Bruce Willis know about this?

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Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4

Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 12/25/2004 04:45 PM
Slashdot Dec 24 2004 6:02PM GMT

Asteroid Warnings Toned Down

Asteroid Warnings Toned Down 04/16/2005 04:53 AM
When a celestial object comes near Earth, astronomers use a special system to describe the risk it poses. But now scientists are scrubbing scary phrases like 'regional disaster' and 'global catastrophe.' By David Cohn.

Will Asteroid Destroy the Earth?

Will Asteroid Destroy the Earth? 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
Hankooki Apr 18 2005 1:41PM GMT

Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After
All

Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After
All 04/18/2005 04:19 PM

2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again

2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again 12/27/2004 03:09 PM

Earth's Asteroid Risk Downgraded

Earth's Asteroid Risk Downgraded 11/15/2003 05:37 PM

iLife '05, Keynote 2, Asteroid, and
Other New Applications?

iLife '05, Keynote 2, Asteroid, and
Other New Applications? 12/28/2004 08:57 PM
Think Secret reports announcements they expect at Macworld Expo in San Francisco in January:iLife '05:iTunes 4.7.1 -- minor updateiPhoto 5 -- updateiM...

Scientist: Asteroid Could Hit Earth in
2029

Scientist: Asteroid Could Hit Earth in
2029 12/24/2004 12:36 PM

Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029

Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 02/05/2005 09:37 PM
Slashdot Feb 5 2005 12:32AM GMT

Boost to asteroid wipe-out theory

Boost to asteroid wipe-out theory 05/13/2004 03:16 PM
Scientists find signs of an ancient crater off the Australian coast possibly linked to the greatest mass extinction in Earth history.

Asteroid named after Dill Faulkes

Asteroid named after Dill Faulkes 07/26/2004 10:58 AM
Contribution to boffin cultivation

Asteroid apocalypse: the online guide

Asteroid apocalypse: the online guide 04/13/2004 11:13 AM
Boffins deploy Armageddon analyser

Wired News: Asteroid Warnings Toned Down

Wired News: Asteroid Warnings Toned Down 04/17/2005 07:36 PM
www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,67248,00.html?tw=rss.TOP .. Asteroid Warnings Toned Down

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ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense
System

ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense
System 07/10/2004 03:16 PM

Hayabusa Earth Flyby Swings Toward
Asteroid

Hayabusa Earth Flyby Swings Toward
Asteroid 05/21/2004 06:49 PM

Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike

Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike 08/21/2004 03:05 PM

USATODAY.com - Asteroid has 1-in-60ish
chance of Earth hit

USATODAY.com - Asteroid has 1-in-60ish
chance of Earth hit 12/26/2004 04:36 PM
What will happen first: a potential asteroid strike on Earth in 2029 or U.S. withdrawal from Iraq? 12/26 .. this piece on the USAToday site

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B612 Foundation and 2004 YD5 Asteroid
Capture?

B612 Foundation and 2004 YD5 Asteroid
Capture? 12/28/2004 03:03 PM

Asteroid past within 1 Million Miles of
Earth

Asteroid past within 1 Million Miles of
Earth 05/05/2004 01:07 AM
A well known Asteroid will pass within 1 million miles of Earth, the asteroid called Toutais which is well known...

Online calculator to work out effect of
asteroid strike

Online calculator to work out effect of
asteroid strike 04/13/2004 08:37 AM
BBC Apr 13 2004 12:36PM GMT

Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid
Impact, says New Study

Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid
Impact, says New Study 05/27/2004 06:35 PM

City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This
Fall

City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This
Fall 05/04/2004 04:58 PM

Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over
Asteroid Claim

Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over
Asteroid Claim 11/13/2003 03:03 AM
chongo writes "Orbital Development has filed legal action against the United States by filing a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in Federal Court. After ...

Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Will Miss Earth,
This Time

Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Will Miss Earth,
This Time 09/25/2004 03:54 PM

Town-sized asteroid to hurtle past Earth
in September

Town-sized asteroid to hurtle past Earth
in September 05/04/2004 03:39 AM
indiaexpress.com May 4 2004 7:49AM GMT

Asteroid Eaters: Robots to Hunt Space
Rocks, Protect Earth

Asteroid Eaters: Robots to Hunt Space
Rocks, Protect Earth 05/27/2004 06:11 PM
Space.com May 27 2004 9:21PM GMT

"Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth
in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very
Carefully'"

"Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth
in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very
Carefully'" 12/27/2004 04:56 AM

Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches
Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale

Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches
Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
yet another massive space rock set to make a disturbingly close rendezvous with our planet .. Is the Apocalypse set for April 13th, 2029? .. 1/233 chance of hitting the Earth .. calculations .. 2004 MN4

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" Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches
Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale "

" Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches
Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale " 12/26/2004 10:30 AM

Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising 09/01/2004 05:33 PM

Sandia supercomputer to be world's fastest, yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor: This description of the new "Red Storm" computer being developed at Sandia is like porn for hardware geeks. Supposedly, this machine is going to take the title of World's Fastest Computer back from the NEC Earth Simulator.

The machine has 96 processors in each computer cabinet, with four processors to a board. Each processor can have up to eight gigabytes of memory sitting next to it. Four Cray SeaStars — powerful networking chips — sit on a daughter board atop each processor board. All SeaStars talk to each other "like a Rubik cube with lots of squares on each face,"� says Camp. "Cray SeaStars are about a factor of five faster than any current competing capability."

Messages encoded in MPI (the Message Passage Interface standard) move from processor to processor at a sustained speed of 4.5 gigabytes per second bidirectionally. The amount of time to get the first information bit from one processor to another is less than 5 microseconds across the system. The machine is arranged in four rows of cabinets. There are a total of 11,648 Opteron processors and a similar number of SeaStars.

USAToday has an article today about how the machine is based on an 80-year-old mathematical theory.

Ideas from an early 20th century British scientist are at the heart of a massive supercomputer expected to be the fastest in the world once it's assembled at Sandia National Laboratories.

Mathematician Lewis F. Richardson wanted a way to forecast the weather. But the basic concepts he envisioned — a way for many calculations to be shared quickly and integrated — lie at the heart of Sandia's machine, Red Storm, which will be used in nuclear weapons work.

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watching the storm

watching the storm 08/13/2004 02:42 PM
Hurricane Charley bearing down on the Southwest Florida coast right now. Maybe you'll find the next Dan Rather on WBBH or WTSP., with live streaming video. myweatherguide.com is blogging the hurricane, as are the Weatherbug people. And official information from the National Weather Service here.

The Storm Warning That Wasn't

The Storm Warning That Wasn't 01/08/2004 08:40 PM
The folks over at the National Weather Service were a bit surprised yesterday when they saw that they had put out an "impending blizzard warning" when they were all sitting around marveling out how nice the weather actually was. Turns out that someone in another office had sent out a test message that accidentally went live. Then, thanks to our automated world, the winter storm warning started appearing all over the internet on weather pages that simply take information from the National Weather Service and repost it. The only thing I can think of is that this is the first time I've actually seen the weather people admit that they were wrong.

Storm Chasers

Storm Chasers 09/03/2004 12:50 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Sep 2, 10:29 pm GMT

The quiet before the next storm

The quiet before the next storm 04/11/2005 02:34 PM
Is the biggest threat to the peace process, and to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, now from his own people?

A View from the Eye of the Storm

A View from the Eye of the Storm 06/20/2004 05:43 PM
"These words are much more dangerous than many people realize." .. a very important article about terrorism .. just go read it

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Storm Report Map

Storm Report Map 06/24/2005 07:23 PM

Here's another great use of Google Maps -- Storm Report Map. Our local meteorologist pointed this out last night. It overlays a Google Map with weather report data after storms strike. A quick look at June 20th shows that Gadgetopia World Headquarters was right in the middle of a whole bunch of nasty weather.

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