Posted on 03/30/2023 10:10:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
One of the most concerning things about the Chelyabinsk event has to do with the ease at which the asteroid evaded our detection systems in use at the time. On the same day the Chelyabinsk asteroid exploded over eastern Russia, NASA had been tracking... 2012 DA14, as it passed within just 17,200 miles from Earth.
March 2023...chief scientist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, presented new findings on impact features at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at Johnson Space Center. Based on recent satellite data, Garvin thinks previously hidden features of ancient impact features could indicate they are much larger than they appear and thereby represent events that were potentially far more devastating than previously thought.
Based on Garvin’s estimates, each crater he and other researchers analyzed in the tens of kilometers size range probably resulted in an explosion ten times greater than the largest nuclear explosion in history.
According to Garvin and his team’s research, there might have been as many as a dozen kilometer-sized asteroids that smashed into Earth, with at least a quarter of them striking land. However, not everyone agrees with what Garvin has proposed. Polish Academy of Sciences crater researcher Anna Łosiak told Science that if Garvin’s findings were accurate, it would mean “we really don’t understand what’s going on at all” with asteroid impacts.
If one of NASA’s chief scientists is indeed correct about the recent asteroid assessment, it could obviously mean that there is far more to be concerned about in the event of future asteroid approaches that could potentially endanger our planet. Fortunately, the recent success of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which demonstrated the ability to use kinetic impactor spacecraft to offset the motion of potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEOs), offers a hopeful outlook for Earth and its future.
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Spend more time concerning yourself with repentance for the sins of mankind!
Gal 5:
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 21 envy,[e] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
And pray to be spared the wrath of God!
Makes one wonder during the Great Tribulation
Flaming mountain? (simile)
Luke 21:26
King James Version
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A26&version=KJV
Asteroids... Another consequence of global warming.
(Don’t laugh, some are dumb enough to believe it)
Better yet, Mecca and Medina!
If we cease creating CO2 da Erf will not be saved?
Asteroid or socialism - we’re screwed either way and have no control over it.
Could earth be at greater risk from global warming than we realize?
Could earth be at greater risk from global cooling than we realize?
Could earth be at greater risk from AI than we realize?
Could earth be at greater risk from white people than we realize?
Could earth be at greater risk from assault rifles than we realize?
Could earth be at greater risk from heterosexuals than we realize?
LOL
You forgot Putin—need to go back to propaganda boot camp!
Get a pair of cheap binoculars and take a quick peek at the surface of the moon and get back to me.
According to Garvin and his team’s research, there might have been as many as a dozen kilometer-sized asteroids that smashed into Earth, with at least a quarter of them striking land.
For one thing, no time frame is given.
Also, ocean shots are worse than land shots. (I have an original Analog Magazine with the article by J. E. Enever that explained this... somewhere....)
That’s just “freakin’” hilarious!
https://www.gregbear.com/pages/apophis.php
(Reference and excerpt from the Analog magazine article.)
Answer, yes, it has happened before and will most likely happen again and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. So why worry about it?
Every living creature that ever existed or will exist is alive today, or has already died! The point is we will all die from something, and dying by a asteroid is the least likely way to go so in the grand scheme of thing why worry?
PRETTY GOOD, ACTUALLY........................
Don’t get my hopes up
There is no way to really evaluate the risk.
I hope so
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