{"id":175941,"date":"2020-10-18T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/18\/i-need-175863-refrigerator-magnets-placed-around-mar-a-lago\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T01:27:00","slug":"i-need-175863-refrigerator-magnets-placed-around-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/18\/i-need-175863-refrigerator-magnets-placed-around-mar-a-lago\/","title":{"rendered":"I Need 175,863 Refrigerator Magnets Placed Around Mar-a-Lago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Asteroid 2018VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, is hurtling towards us at more than 40,000 km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p>It may buzz-cut Earth on Nov 2, the day before the Presidential Election.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not big enough to cause harm. So if the World ends in 2020, it won\u2019t be the fault of the Universe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eiy9G9w4Ez\">pic.twitter.com\/eiy9G9w4Ez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neiltyson\/status\/1317639297701498880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Definitely Mar a Lago<\/i><\/div>\n<p>  Prominent astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has just announced   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencetimes.com\/articles\/27753\/20201018\/neil-degrasse-tyson-refrigerator-sized-asteroid-could-hit-earth-before-the-us-elections.htm\">a refrigerator-sized asteroid might hit the United States on November 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>  While this would not create widespread damage, given that iron has a density   of 7,870 kg\/m<sup>3<\/sup>, we would be looking at about 15,000 kg hitting the   ground at about 10,000 m\/s. (I am figuring an iron asteroid of 4 m<sup>3<\/sup>  volume, with half of it vaporizing before it hits the earth)<\/p>\n<p>  The kinetic energy involved is therefore \u00bdmv<sup>2<\/sup>, or about 7.5\u271510<sup>11<\/sup>  Joules. <\/p>\n<p>This is roughly equivalent to the detonation of about 180 tons of TNT.<\/p>\n<p>So, the blast is much smaller than Hiroshima, but about 15 times bigger than the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GBU-43\/B_MOAB\">GBU-43\/B MOAB<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Definitely enough to depress property values:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A certain asteroid is currently moving toward Earth, said the world&#8217;s most prominent astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">It could theoretically strike the planet just before the forthcoming US presidential elections slated on November 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The prominent astrophysicist said that if the planet eventually ends  in 2020, it would not entirely be the world&#8217;s responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The asteroid identified as 2018VP1 has been on the radar since the  moment it was observed by the famed Palomar Observatory in California in  November 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so 2020. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid 2018VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, is hurtling towards us at more than 40,000 km\/hr. It may buzz-cut Earth on Nov 2, the day before the Presidential Election. It\u2019s not big enough to cause harm. So if the World ends in 2020, it won\u2019t be the fault of the Universe. pic.twitter.com\/eiy9G9w4Ez \u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[565,505,375,374],"class_list":["post-175941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-disaster","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}