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Old 30-December-2007, 06:49 AM
Wakatah Wakatah is offline
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Originally Posted by Van Rijn View Post
There is no evidence that 4179 Toutatis would hit the Earth in 2012.



If you have general astronomy questions, you might want to ask in the Q&A section, and you'll probably get a better discussion than in the CT forum.



That's not possible. The sun is about 26,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. The sun is moving about 220 km per second in orbit around the center, but assuming we were heading straight for the black hole we think is there at current speed, it would take over 30 million years to get there.
I meant it could be possible for toutatis to just slam into another rock and changes its course for earth but as you said its unlikely.
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