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Dalek Dave

Astronomy has a tradition of naming heavenly bodies after Gods and Goddesses of many cultures and mythologies. Good job too, Uranus was originally called George.

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Anthony Mushrow

You seem to have thought about this quite a bit. Are you creating some kind of asteroid attraction device in a bid to take over the world?

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Rutvik Dave

Instead of using name "Kali", you can use "Rahu" (he can swallow sun) or "Ketu" (he is a shadow planet) they are responsible for Solar and Lunar eclipse... and also related to Lord Vishnu as they are result of "Samudra Manthan", they are mixture of +ve and -ve figures.

Chris Maunder

Bruce Willis will be playing the lead role in the movie, right? Right?

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Gregory Gadow

I will look into those, thanks for the suggestion.

Dalek Dave

Keen amateur astronomer. I study all aspects of it, planetary science, cosmology, exobiology, stellar physics etc. Also it ties over with my current studies into the formation of life, (Water delivery, amino acids formation, the creation of the moon etc).

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Dalek Dave

Would be too old! Perhaps Vin Deisel!

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Gregory Gadow

My understanding is that Kali Yuga means "the time of Kali" and would be better used for the aftermath of the impact, not the asteroid itself. Regarding why religion, that's why I offered some of the backstory: to explain how the name came to be widely used around the planet. Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

Gregory Gadow

Chris Maunder wrote:

Bruce Willis will be playing the lead role in the movie, right? Right?

Not if I have anything to say in the matter.

Luc Pattyn

oil direvatives will be exhausted long before that. :doh:

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Gregory Gadow

I've thought about this myself :-D When discovered, the asteroid was about 13 km in diameter; the two efforts to break it up still left it just over 10 km. It hit the atmosphere at a very oblique angle and broke apart, with most of the asteroid ricocheting back into space on safe trajectories. The one major piece that did impact the surface traveled almost 2000 km before landing in the Pacific, which should be more than enough time to lose most of its mass and velocity. That isn't to say that there was no aftermath, though: the heat added to the air from that fragment wreaked havoc with weather patterns for decades, large areas of the Brazil was destroyed by the shock wave from the concussive impact and many of those who survived watching the fragment go overhead were deafend by the blast. It wasn't a "thank goodness it missed us" event by any stretch. Like I said, the purpose is to make the people of Terra very anxious that all of humanity's eggs are in one stellar basket.

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Dalek Dave wrote:

Ur:anus was originally called Ge:orge

FTFY!

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dan sh

You can probably name your asteroid as "Kaal Bhairav". I would suggest "Kaal" since people from West can go quite close to it's pronunciation. You also try "Yamaraj" or just "Yam" if the asteroid is like killing life. If you want to portrait it as a destroyer, use "Shiva" which basically is the destroyer from the trinity we have. Although this would offend a large amount of people since he is, well, a good destroyer.

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Dalek Dave

OK, but, a meteorite that big would not lose much mass, and even though there would be some loss of velocity, remember it would still be slamming into the Earth at circa 100,000 mph, so it would only be in the atmosphere for a couple of seconds. The damage to the atmosphere you are indicating would be caused more by the impacting rather than the ripping through (and remember that meteors are very cold until they impact). Certainly though the blast wave would cause immense damage, and don't forget the antipodal impact reverberations, they could cause a flood basalt event.see here[^].

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Dalek Dave

Shiva has been used as a Deadly Virus in 'Executive Orders'.

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dan sh

I wonder how many understand "Kali yug" as well. Maybe we can use something off the Garuda Puran. Maybe "kinkara".

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dan sh

That's basically a chimera virus named by IMHO some ignorant guy.

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Dalek Dave

Good book though.

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Gregory Gadow

My understanding is that the chief target of Shiva is ignorance. Anyway, I don't so much want a being of destruction as one of chaos and evil, which Shiva is not.

dan sh

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

chaos and evil

Try these[^] then.

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