tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870357295177628145.post5474846122641949855..comments2023-08-19T04:46:57.560-07:00Comments on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Asteroid (35396) 1997 XF11Irynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05465522029045611540noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870357295177628145.post-66258866261510311172011-11-22T12:40:37.909-08:002011-11-22T12:40:37.909-08:00If you want to get (in)famous, get a PhD in astron...If you want to get (in)famous, get a PhD in astronomy and then make a press release about some possible apocalypse. It is, however, also a good way to frustrate your fellow astronomers :P<br /><br />I wonder if this is like the boy who cried wolf. What if astronomers discovered an asteroid that might actually hit the Earth and we ought to go do some sort of Hollywood-like space mission to save the Earth, and no one believes us because we predict the end of the Earth once every year or so? (Most recent example I can think of is a guy in Australia last year who predicted that Betelgeuse would go supernova in 2012, causing us to have a second sun... the consensus is that Betelgeuse is "near" going supernova as in there's a small possibility that it might go sometime in the next 10,000 years but more likely much later than that.)Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055164295753326532noreply@blogger.com