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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Revelation 8:10-11
New International Version
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
At least one of those puppies has our number on it.
Not to worry. Jesus will have taken his own outta here before that thing hits (or things hit)...
Good one...
AND CHINA
Science Fiction Analog! I remember that! Great stories.
Thank God for Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere.
There is a lot out there we know nothing about. I still don't lose sleep over it.
Not to worry! Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton will save us!
Only the Father knows.
It could only happen if He allows it.
There is NOTHING puny humans could do about it anyway.
“What, me worry?”
No, I KNOW MY future. Do YOU?
“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.”
Yeah, right!
Does the government lie? Will a bear...?
Brilliant deduction Sherlock.
Analog March 1966.
Also in Analog 6.
And for those who turn up their pretty little noses at Science Fiction, read T.rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez...
The government named it Apophis (The Great Serpent)! Can you believe it?
Even worse for a shallow water impact over limestone!
Lets hope so...................
Yup. Stuff hit’s our atmosphere all day and night.
Most is nothing but small stuff but we will get smacked by something big at some point.
Happened in the past and will happen again.
I’m just learning... ;)
Stop trying to cheer me up.
Would it be wrong to ask God to direct one to Washington DC?
I’m confused! Recently we were told the climate change was the cause of the droughts in the west. Now with all the rain and flooding out west is this climate change too? Please fellow freepers try and help me understand. Thanks in advance.
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