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COULD EARTH BE AT GREATER RISK FROM A DEADLY ASTEROID IMPACT THAN WE REALIZE?
The DeBrief ^ | Micah Hanks

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2012da14; asteroid; asteroids; astronomy; catastrophism; dart; didymos; dimorphos; fakenews; keywordtroll; science
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To: Jhadur

I had a thought that if we tapped the caldera like Iceland does it’s calderas, we could have cheap power nationwide and reduce the danger of an eruption


61 posted on 03/30/2023 2:06:53 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: BenLurkin

No worries!

NASA has the most comprehensive programs that exist to hire, pay exorbitantly, and promote moslems, LGBT, trans, minority, foreigners, BLM, and migrant invader vermin that billions of dollars can support...

No worries!

Million-Man-March math will protect us...


62 posted on 03/30/2023 2:18:56 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

It’s far too deep for modern drilling equipment as farms I know. (I could be wrong) I was also under the impression that if the pressure was released, something very, very bad would occur.


63 posted on 03/30/2023 4:00:57 PM PDT by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: BenLurkin

So you’re saying there is reason for hope.


64 posted on 03/30/2023 4:06:26 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


65 posted on 03/31/2023 11:28:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.



66 posted on 03/31/2023 11:28:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: muir_redwoods

67 posted on 03/31/2023 12:36:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

May I make a suggestion of target coordinates


68 posted on 03/31/2023 12:41:47 PM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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