/sci/ - Science & Math

So the internet says we're gonna be hit by a big old asteroid on 24-25 September. Supposedly governments have been nuking the heck out of the thing without much luck. What does /sci/ think of this?

>Sept 17 Important Update – Space Detonation(s):
>A fresh sighting, of a short lived bright illumination, has been confirmed. The dimensions and shape of the bright illumination indicates a wide debris field, as it had an oblong and rough shape & tilted (i.e. debris field shape tilted with respect to the horizon).
>This sighting was less than 2 days ago. A followup of the exact location 24hrs later confirmed that the illumination was not present (not an artifact).
>It is believed that this illumination was from a distant space detonation of a direct hit of the “object”. However, this was not the first “detonation” … information and data indicate 3 and possibly 4 space detonations have occurred.

>Earth Referenced coordinates:
>The direction of this illuminated “debris field” was in the Earth’s northern hemisphere view, observed at sunrise Pacific Daylight Time (U.S. PDT), at an angle – to the stars – of approximately 42 degrees north (earth plane Latitude intersecting to object).
>The location was from the northern Pacific Coast Range, to the nearest town, is 45° 35′ 11″ N 123° 12′ 53″ W. This data confirms that the object is approaching from a sun light illuminated direction (from a low angle “sun approach”).