Posted on 12/27/2019 8:25:51 AM PST by Red Badger
More space rocks seem to be approaching Earths territory, and a new report reveals another one may bring in disasters. NASA has spotted an asteroid traveling at 63,000 miles per hour, and there is a possibility that it can impact the Earth.
Express reports that the space agency recently tracked down an asteroid named 101955 Bennu but formally known as 1999 RQ36, hurtling towards Earth at a rapid speed of 63,000 miles per hour. NASA has not only labeled this a Potentially Hazardous Object or PHO, but they have also classified RQ36 with the second-highest rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. Some experts have already warned the space agency to take action should the asteroid enter the atmosphere as it can bring on calamities and disasters once it hits.
As to when it can strike Earth, experts predict that RQ36 may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century, which is still decades away. Experts predict that it may happen around the years 2175 or 2196.
This asteroid measures about 1,640 feet in diameter, which is equal to the size of the Empire State Building in New York. RQ36 also orbits around the sun once every two years, and once every six years, it makes a close approach with Earth. The closest it has usually gotten is within 0.002 astronomical units, or 185,000 miles, which is nearer than most asteroids that have been classified as Near-Earth Objects have gotten. RQ36 also weighs 68 million tons and is traveling at a speed of 63,000 miles per hour.
Meanwhile, Express also reports the potential disasters that will happen when another kind of asteroid manages to strike the Earth. The astronomers at NASA revealed that over the course of a few hundred thousand years, asteroids that would measure beyond a kilometer could potentially kill millions when it strikes, or cause bigger disasters. They went on to say that the debris would come from the impact would trigger acid rains while blocking sunlight and even firestorms as a result of the remnants of the space rock falling on the surface of the planet.
101955 Bennu
Global warming will do that to you
Time to fire up the Meteor Cannon (linear accelerator)
We need a new tax!
It won’t be here till 2175 or 2196.
I’ll wait...................
Pretty good - I didn't have to read beyond, not just the first sentence, but the first phrase in the first sentence, to come to my 'I stopped reading right there' threshold.
Experts predict that it may happen around the years 2175 or 2196.
so why should we care ,by then they’ll probably have things to scoop them up or maybe the Global Warming Nuts will have destroyed the Planet by then
Is that the one nicknamed “Wormwood”?
...RQ36 may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century, which is still decades away
Many decades...
Nope, it is arriving much sooner.
AOC says we won't be here anyway.
Of course the article doesn’t say if 2019
is a sixth year or on what day
it makes its closest approach but
185k miles is a darn close shave
for something that big and fast.
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may strike the planet in the last quarter of the 22nd century...
I MAY be dead by then. :)
And I LOVED Armageddon. Science geeks wrote theses on why what they did was completely impractical and could never work.
It was a MOVIE!! :) I just enjoyed it.
Proposed to the theme song on a Ferris Wheel. Boy did that relationship crash and burn like a HUGH and SERIES asteroid!!
If there’s nothing that we can do, I don’t want to know.
Since we only have a little over 11 years until all life on this planet ends from Climate Change, why are we wasting money on crap that is irrelevant??
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