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Posted on 04/27/2021 6:55:38 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
NASA will run an asteroid impact simulation event over the course of the week as the space agency ups its game in the pursuit of keeping Earth safe from threatening space rocks.
While there are no known significant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid impact is considered inevitable in our planet’s future. The potential impact could still be millions of years away, but NASA is working now to prepare for the inevitable.
Over the course of the week commencing April 26, members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to see how an asteroid event plays outs.
The event, which is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), will see a fictitious scenario where a large asteroid on its way to Earth.
On April 26, astronomers will ‘discover’ a potentially hazardous near Earth object (NEO) which poses a threat to our planet.
Over the ensuing days, details will emerge about the fictitious asteroid’s threat to Earth and participants will discuss how to prepare or what can be done.
It has already been decided the imaginary asteroid has a one in 100 chance of hitting Earth in the role-play.
NASA said it will “use the fictitious scenario to investigate how near-Earth object (NEO) observers, space agency officials, emergency managers, decision makers, and citizens might respond and work together to an actual impact prediction and simulate the evolving information that becomes available in the event an asteroid impact threat is discovered.“'
Lindley Johnson, NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer, said: “Each time we participate in an exercise of this nature, we learn more about who the key players are in a disaster event, and who needs to know what information, and when.
“These exercises ultimately help the planetary defence community communicate with each other and with our governments to ensure we are all coordinated should a potential impact threat be identified in the future.”
Dr Paul Chodas, director of CNEOS, said: “Hypothetical asteroid impact exercises provide opportunities for us to think about how we would respond in the event that a sizeable asteroid is found to have a significant chance of impacting our planet.
“Details of the scenario – such as the probability of the asteroid impact, where and when the impact might occur – are released to participants in a series of steps over the days of the conference to simulate how a real situation might evolve.”
The event will serve as a precursor to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
DART is scheduled to launch this year and will attempt to reach a non-threatening asteroid known as Didymos.
The rocket will attempt to move the asteroid from its course to see just how an asteroid redirection mission would work if a major space rock were to come to Earth.
Read The Fall of a Thousand Suns to understand how near misses and comet impacts affected the religious beliefs of our ancestors…
Andrea Riley, program executive for DART at NASA Headquarters, said: “DART will be the first test for planetary defence, and the data returned after it impacts Dimorphos will help scientists better understand one way we might mitigate a potentially hazardous NEO discovered in the future.
“While the asteroid DART impacts poses no threat to Earth, it is in a perfect location for us to perform this test of the technology before it may actually be needed.”
As introduced in yesterday’s newsletter, a small asteroid disintegrated over Africa in 2018… When do you think the next big asteroid will hit?
I say: BRING IT!
Hey - I didn't get a "harrumph" outta' that guy....
Revelations 8: verses 8-13.
Scripture does tell us it’s going to happen and what the consequences are going to be.
Saint Hildegard prophesied it as well.
“Before the Comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured with want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent (the USA?) by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea, and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion.” The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease. For in none of these cities does a person live according to the laws of God. Peace will return to Europe when the white flower again takes possession of the throne of France. During this time of peace the people will be forbidden to carry weapons and iron will be used solely for making agricultural implements and tools. Also during this period the soil will be very productive and many Jews, heathens and heretics will join the Church.
“After that there will be so few men left that seven women will fight for one man, that they will say to the man: “Marry me to take the disgrace from me.” For in those days it will be a disgrace for a woman to be without child, as it was by the Jews in the Old Testament … .”
“The throne of the last Catholic Empire will crumble and the sceptre will fall out of the hand of him who sits on the throne. The Great Monarch by this time will be a very old man. All justice will cease and will be trodden under foot. The latter times will be more evil and corrupt in the eyes of God. Children of God will be persecuted by the most hateful means in the eyes of God. Almost immediately after the death of the Monarch comes Antichrist…”
https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/st-hildegard-of-bingen.html?m=0
Good time to invest in skateboards...
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