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	(89959) 2002 NT7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(89959) 2002 NT, also written (89959) 2002 NT7) is a near-Earth object (NEO) that became the first object observed by NASA's NEO program to be assigned a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for a potential impact date of February 1, 2019.
		As of July 25, 2002, the hazard rating on the Palermo scale had been lowered to -0.25.
		On August 1, 2002, the object was removed from the list of objects that present a threat, at least for the next 100 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_NT7 (207 words)

	2002 NT7
		2002 NT7 is a near-Earth object (NEO) that became the first object observed by NASA's NEO program to be assigned a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for a potential impact date of February 1, 2019.
		As of 25 July 2002, the hazard rating on the Palermo scale had been lowered to -0.25.
		However, the discovery of an object with an initial hazard rating above 0.0 is still a significant event in the history of the NEO observation program.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/20/2002_NT7.html (154 words)

	Asteroid 2002 NT7 Under Watch, But Probably Not Coming Our Way
		Asteroid experts are continuing to observe asteroid 2002 NT7, which was under watch because preliminary calculations indicated it could be on a collision course with Earth.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7, which was first detected earlier this month by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Project in New Mexico, orbits the Sun every 837 days, traveling in a tilted orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit.
		While the Torino scale placed 2002 NT7 within the range of "events meriting careful monitoring" but not of great concern, there is always a remote possibility it could be determined later to be on track and heading toward Earth.
	www.planetary.org /html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Asteroid2002NT7-UnderWatch.html (1636 words)

	Space rock 'on collision course' - Chemtrail Central Forum
		A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019 - although the uncertainties are large.
		Asteroid 2002 NY40 was first spotted July 14 with the 1-meter (3-foot) LINEAR telescope in Socorro, N.M. Its discovery contrasts with that of another asteroid, 2002 MN, which had an even closer brush with Earth in June but was not detected until three days later, by the same facility.
		The BBC's report that the 2km-wide asteroid 2002 NT7 could slam into the planet on February 1, 2019, is bad enough.
	www.chemtrailcentral.com /ubb/Forum6/HTML/000732.html (2124 words)

	2002 NT7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		2002 NT7 is a near-Earth object (NEO) thatbecame the first object observed by NASA 's NEO program to be assigned a positive rating onthe Palermo Technical ImpactHazard Scale for a potential impact date of February 1, 2019.
		As of July25, 2002, the hazard rating on the Palermo scale had been lowered to -0.25.
		On August 1, 2002, the object was removedfrom the list of objects that present a threat, at least for the next 100 years.
	www.therfcc.org /2002-nt7-60359.html (144 words)

	A/CC Essay: How A/CC broke the 2002 NT7 story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019.
		NT7 was discovered on 9 July by MIT's LINEAR program, and first came to A/CC's attention when the Minor Planet Center (MPC) posted MPEC 2002-N38 on 14 July with early observations.
		The 2002 NT7 positive Palermo Scale rating of 22 July was based on only a very few days' observations, and thus was quite preliminary and could be expected to change for the better with more time and observations.
	www.hohmanntransfer.com /sas/nt7/index.html (3433 words)

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		The asteroid, currently named 2002 NT7, was only first sighted at the beginning of this month.
		2002 NT7 is not your average galaxy crossing asteroid.
		According to that page, 2002 NT7 rates a 1 on the Torino scale, which means that it is rated as such:
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20020724-1879.html (361 words)

	Private Observatory Meyer/Obermair near Linz, Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asteroid 2002 NT, discovered on July 9 by the LINEAR program, made it into the headlines soon after its discovery because it seemed possible that it might impact Earth in 2019.
		The Astrometrica software was used to stack eight single exposures (each of 60 seconds) to increase the Signal to Noise Ratio of the faint asteroid on the images, which were taken in bright moonlight.
		2002 NT is the faint point-source in the center of the image.
	web.utanet.at /raab/pomod/2002NT7.html (189 words)

	How Do You Figure the Odds of an Asteroid Hitting the Earth? By Brendan I. Koerner
		A newly discovered asteroid, dubbed 2002 NT7, has a 1-in-200,000 chance of striking the Earth on Feb. 1, 2019.
		But 2002 NT7 was only discovered on July 9, which means all positional estimates so far are likely to be off by tens of millions of miles.
		If the 2-kilometer-wide 2002 NT7 were to strike, its impact would release 1 million megatons of energy, about the strength of 20,000 H-bombs exploding simultaneously.
	www.slate.com /?id=2068546 (423 words)

	February12019.com - 2002 NT7 An Asteroid 2 Kilometers Wide May Impact Earth February 1, 2019
		NT7 circles the Sun every 837 days and travels in a tilted orbit from about the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit.
		According to astronomers, NT7 will be easily observable for the next 18 months or so, meaning there is no risk of losing the object.
		Observations made over that period - and the fact that NT7 is bright enough that it is bound to show up in old photographs - mean that scientists will soon have a very precise orbit for the object.
	www.february12019.com (528 words)

	Lucifer's Hammer: The Asteroid Strike
		The official designation is 2002 NT7; it is an asteroid that is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019.
		A preliminary orbit suggests that 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth on 1 February 2019, although the uncertainties are large.
		The orbit of Asteroid 2002 NT7 should not be nudged or bent willy-nilly lest future cycles repeat the peril.
	www.jerrypournelle.com /reports/jerryp/hammer.html (2600 words)

	2002 NT7
		Initial statements from the British press stated that 2002 NT7 was on a collision course with Earth with the impact predicted for February 1, 2019.
		Discovered on July 9, 2002 by the LINEAR team, asteroid 2002 NT7 is in an orbit, which is highly inclined with respect to the Earth's orbit about the sun and in fact nearly intersects the orbit of the Earth.
		While the orbits of Earth and 2002 NT7 are close to one another at one point in their respective orbits, that does not mean that the asteroid and Earth themselves will get close to one another.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/nt7e.html (2929 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2002 NT Asteroid 2002 NT, discovered on July 9 by the LINEAR program, made it into the headlines soon after its discovery because it seemed possible that it might impact Earth in 2019.
		However, observations by Erich Meyer at the Davidschlag Observatory on July 28 and 29, 2002, removed all impact possibilities for 2019.
		Asteroid 2002 NT, imaged on July 29, 2002, by Erich Meyer at the Davidschlag Observatory, Austria.
	www.astrometrica.at /Images/200208.html (214 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Asteroid to miss - this time around
		2002 NT7, a two-kilometre-wide (1.4 miles) chunk of rock, was discovered on 9 July.
		But further work needs to be done to confirm that 2002 NT7 is not a threat further into the future.
		The intense worldwide interest in 2002 NT7 has prompted a debate in the astronomical community.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/2158898.stm (425 words)

	Asteroid 2002 NT7 - Asteroid to hit Earth by 2019 - What Is An Asteroid? Extinction Level Event
		Last month it was reported that a tiny asteroid [ 2002 MN ], the size of a football pitch missed Earth by only 75,000 miles - less than one-third of the distance to the moon.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7 is still millions of miles away, but it traveling at nearly 30,000 meters each second.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7, 2km wide, was first observed by the Linear search program in New Mexico on July 9.
	www.thesahara.net /asteroid_2002_nt7.htm (1475 words)

	Caveat Impactor
		Unlike most asteroids, which circle the Sun in the plane of the planets, 2002 NT7 follows a path that is tilted 42 degrees.
		JPL lists asteroids like 2002 NT7 on their Internet "risk page" not to raise an alarm, says Yeomans, but to alert astronomers when new discoveries merit attention.
		: Astronomer John Rogers captured this image of 2002 NT7, faint and far away, on July 23, 2002, using a 0.3-meter telescope at the Camarillo Observatory.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2002/26jul_nt7.htm (918 words)

	A/CC Catalog: Asteroids Unnumbered, 2002
		2002 FD6 is estimated to be 150 to 330 meters/yards in diameter.
		2002 MX, discovered by LINEAR at almost the same time on 17 June 2002 as 2002 MN, was announced a day later, on the 19th, and appeared with MN on the JPL and NEODyS risk pages and Spaceguard observing campaigns page.
		2002 VP94 was discovered by LINEAR on 5 Nov. 2002, and ten days later was announced in MPEC 2002-V70 with 175 observations from 16 observatories, and a note, "Whether this object is a comet or not is inconclusive." Its comet-like orbit comes close to, and lies between, the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
	www.hohmanntransfer.com /cat/au02.htm (7461 words)

	CAA Press Release 1
		It was a relatively new discovery which was not at risk of being lost (due principally to its size.) A few CAA mouse clicks revealed that it would be visible through the end of September 2002, when it would be lost in the glare of the Sun for a few months.
		July 27, 2002 3:35 PM I am a computer scientist and I have 2 young children and my wife is pregnant with our 3rd baby.
		When I initially heard about Asteroid 2002 NT7 which is projected to hit the earth on February 1, 2019, I was worried.
	www.camarilloobservatory.com /pr01.htm (964 words)

	Asteroid 2002 NT7 Under Watch, Odds of Impact Decline Dramatically
		After processing "a few more observations" of asteroid 2002 NT7 through Sunday, July 28, NASA has ruled out the possibilities for an Earth impact on February 1, 2019, the space agency's NEO team reported on its website.
		The asteroid is still, however, under watch because calculations indicated that there existed a number of potentialities for its projected path to intersect that of the planet.
		In other words, asteroid 2002 NT7 is not expected to make a deep impact or bring forth Armageddon in 2019 -- or probably ever.
	www.planetary.org /html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2002/Asteroid2002NT7-UpDate.html (453 words)

	Shoggoth.net: 2002 NT7 to strike Earth?
		That’s right, as you may have heard scientists and astronomers have recently re-calculated that the asteroid identified only by the arcane designation 2002 NT is not on a collision course with the future location of Earth - February 1, 2019.
		Originally a 1-in-250,000 chance of collision was calculated and later it was estimated the odds as high as 1-in-90,000 but now they say with new orbit determinations made and analyzed that the collision is an impossibility.
		2002 NT is a fairly large asteroid, nearly 3 kilometers across.
	www.shoggoth.net /article.php3?story_id=290&slashSess=f15fdbde740ffd66c38064cf43594db2 (310 words)

	Space rock 'on collision course'
		Article Posted: July 23, 2002 Asteroid 2002 NT7 could hit in two decades; 2002 NY40 passes by August 17; and a large NEA search telescope is proposed.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7, a relatively large (H=16) Apollo with a still rather poorly determined orbit, has been on the Risk Pages of both NEODyS and JPL since July 18, as it is associated to a number of Virtual Impactors.
		With the shrinking of the uncertainty region due to the accumulation of astrometric observations, many of the VIs found associated with the initial, very uncertain, orbit have disappeared, as is normal in such cases.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/721486/posts (1639 words)

	July 2002 - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A timeline of events in the news for July, 2002.
		First near-earth object to be given a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for potential Earth collision is (89959) 2002 NT with a potential impact on February 1, 2019.
		The major Millennium Challenge 2002 wargame run by the United States armed forces begins.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/July_2002 (981 words)

	News Article: Two new NEAs and a Proposed Survey Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asteroid 2002 NT7 could hit in two decades; 2002 NY40 passes by August 17; and a large NEA search telescope is proposed.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7, a relatively large (H=16) Apollo asteroid with a still rather poorly determined orbit, has been on the Risk Pages of both NEODyS and JPL since July 18.
		But 2002 NY40 is about 10 times larger than 2002 MN; the best current estimates make it about half a kilometer (a third of a mile) across.
	www.nai.arc.nasa.gov /impact/news_detail.cfm?ID=115 (1430 words)

	News Article: 2002 NT7: Media Splash but No Threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the first to break the story on NT7 was David Whitehouse, senior science reporter on the BBC and holder of a doctorate in astronomy.
		Whitehead feels that his lead statement that “2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019” was correct — but to my knowledge no astronomer who studies NEAs agrees.
		Asteroid 2002 NT7 was discovered July 9 and last week was determined by NASA to have six chances in a million of hitting Earth on Feb. 1, 2019.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /impact/news_detail.cfm?ID=117 (3213 words)

	ABC Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's a name I use for anything or anyone that is trying to achieve my death - idiot drivers in general and all Volvo drivers in particular, presidents of the USA, muggers (they hate being called George) etc. It is an all purpose name without the silliness of Warren.
		The crossing was well marked and well lit, I was not wearing dark clothing, yet the Volvo driver did not see me and only a huge leap on my part, which defied my age and would have been respectfully viewed in Manchester, saved me from being a Volvo bonnet ornament.
		I wasn't saying anything about your grandparents...I was just saying that the people you call George are the people I refer to as grandma or grandpa [depending on their sex]...I do not call my own grandparents grandma or grandpa...
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/k2/stn/archives/archive21/newposts/118/topic118888.shtm (586 words)

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		A small NEA called 2002 NT7 currently under observation has a remote possibility of hitting the Earth in 2019.
		According to this ten-point scale, a rating of zero indicates the event has "no likely consequences." A Torino Scale rating of 1 indicates an event that "merits careful monitoring." Even higher ratings indicate that progressively more concern is warranted.
		Still quite faint at magnitude 18, 2002 NY40 (another asteroid) is making a very tight loop around the star Beta Aquarii.
	www.physics.sfasu.edu /astro/social/social049.htm (298 words)

	PPRuNe Forums - Asteroid 2002 NT7
		It'd make one hell of a mess of wherever it hit (it would almost totally remove France, for example), and it'd probably be the biggest bang humanity has experienced with the consequent tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic activity and climatic change accounting for as many, if not more, lives than the initial impact.
		At the moment 2002 NT7 is still assigned a negative value (-0.06) on the Palermo Scale, so it's far from a foregone conclusion that the damn rock will come anywhere near us in 2019 at all.
		Apparently the "Impact Probability" for 2002 NT7 is currently estimated at 3.9e-06 = 1 in 256,410 for 1st Feb 2019.
	www.pprune.org /forums/showthread.php?s=ee95c8fb264fed254f0c9b197e153ccb&threadid=60874&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 (621 words)

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