The asteroid 2009 JF1 could hit the Earth on May 6, 2022 at 08:34 hours
Posted on 01/10/2021 9:08:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its acronym in English) has defined as “potentially dangerous” to asteroid 2009 JF1, as it could impact the Earth on March 6, 2022 at 08:34 hours, as reported by the space agency, although it also estimates that the probability of impact is 1 in 3,800 (0.026%).
The date set for the collision has been specified after the exhaustive observation of the asteroid through a collision monitoring system of the US space agency that classifies objects near the planet according to their size, speed, dimensions and year in which they are believe the impact will occur.
Its impact against the Earth could cause an explosion equivalent to 230 kilotons of dynamite. You have to calculate that the Hiroshima bomb had only 15 kilotons of power (Shutterstock)
Asteroid 2009 JF1 is currently 375,587,595 km from the planet, approaching 18 km towards us every second. It flies past Earth at an incredible speed, at 65,293 kilometers per hour. The Space Agency viewed it through Sentry in 2009, estimating it to be around 13 meters in diameter.
Although the probability of collision is very low, smaller rocks that usually accompany the space body can enter our atmosphere, burn in it as they descend to the ground, creating meteors and meteorites that we often see as showers of stars in the night sky.
The asteroid 2009 JF1 could hit the Earth on May 6, 2022 at 08:34 hours
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LOL!! I can’t see my screen. I’m laughing so hard I’m crying.
I was going to say, Hey, no spoilers! We’ve barely begun to discover the horrors 2021 has for us.
Please hit Washington, D.C. Please hit Washington D.C.
Thanks. I needed that laugh.
Well, now I know the exact date that I will win Powerball.
So funny! Thanks.
Wormwood? Right on time the way I see it. If this is not the last days I don’t know what else could be more evidence of it. Get ready to meet you creatir folks, its your last chance.
Hardly. He inherited that asteroid from Trump.
I thought I was the only one wishing for such things.
“ Hope it lands right in the middle of DC!!!”
I’ve always said that if God ever decided to give Earth an enema he would stick it in D.C.!
It’s an asteroid, it’s drifting, it doesn’t have any “power.”
>estimating it to be around 13 meters in diameter.
Not big enough. It will break up 80-100 miles up. No one will even hear it. Something this size comes in every week, mostly unnoticed.
Get one close to 100 meters and it’s interesting.
Can Elon Musk send up a rocket to hurry it along?
Especially if it hit DC.
The real killer part of it is when all the nuke power plants that get taken out by the asteroid, and then spill all their radiation into the air. All those spent fuel rod pools and all.
That way most of the planet will be uninhabitable for 100,000 years. And you were all worried about the asteroid.
Still not going to be enough to be sure.
On the other hand, if it hits D.C. directly, it will be a good start, as long as the legislative branch is in session.
I'm guessing it would take something about 10 km wide to wreak world wide havoc, even if it just burned to dust. Widespread crop failures for a couple of years after. That would be the disaster these articles want us to envision.
2.3 mega ton explosions are nothing to scoff at but the first hydrogen bomb to detonate was 10.4 mega tons - 700 times the Hiroshima bomb and the world seems to have survived
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
We have plenty of time to paint a bullseye on the Capitol rotunda!
I am going to file a complaint.
This is no way to run a railroad.
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