Philippines at Risk from Asteroids?

[Jun aka Pekto]

For me di naman tlga naprepredict ang ganun ;)

Ahh. In the old days perhaps. But now, there are powerful enough tools available. In fact, someone predicted a comet will collide with Jupiter in 1994. I think that scientist was the one who discovered that comet.

Here's a video. Note that each impact is as big as the Earth:


Add: Here's more images from that event

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/top20.html

A nice pic of that event using infrared wavelength:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/gif/calar7.gif