NASA predicts large asteroid could smash into Earth in 159 years

NY Post ^ | 19/9/23 | Patrick Reilly

[Eleutheria5]

NASA scientists have predicted there is a chance that a massive asteroid they have been tracking could smash into earth in the year 2182, potentially devastating an area the size of Texas.

Bennu, a Near-Earth Object (NEO), orbits the earth roughly every six years and has been on the space agency’s radar since 1999 when it was first discovered.

There have been three close encounters involving Bennu in 1999, 2005, and 2011, scientists said.

On September 25, 2135, Bennu will make a close fly-by past Earth and has a miniscule chance through a pass through a “gravitational keyhole” that would send the space rock on a collision course for the planet in 2182 — 159 years from now.

A paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team gives Bennu just a 1 in 2,700 chance — or 0.037% — of impacting Earth on.....

[TomGuy]

Leftists and their stupid climate change attempts will have wiped out life on the planet long before this rock hits.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ug! It’s always something. This is why we can’t have nice things.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

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[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=asteroid+bennu

Physical characteristics

Dimensions
565 m × 535 m × 508 m

Mass
(7.329±0.009)×1010 kg

Mean density
1.190±0.013 g/cm3

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the OSIRIS-REx keyword, sorted:

• How NASA's Audacious Mission To Sample An Asteroid Almost Ended In Bizarre Disaster [07/10/2022]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tagging Bennu: The Movie [11/03/2020]
• NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid [10/24/2020]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tagging Bennu [10/22/2020]
• Here It Is: The Spectacular Footage of NASA Touching Down on an Asteroid [10/22/2020]
• A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Land on an Asteroid And Grab a Sample. [10/20/2020]
• Asteroid Bennu Caries Organic Materials Consistent With Ingredients For Life [10/09/2020]
• OSIRIS-REx readies for sample collection, observes strange activity at asteroid Bennu [10/01/2020]
• NASA spacecraft swoops down low over asteroid Bennu to eye sampling site [06/09/2020]
• Eruptions on Asteroid Bennu Hint at Causes of Space Rock Explosions [12/05/2019]
• No, You Won't See an 'Apocalypse Asteroid' in the Sky on Valentine's Day [02/11/2019]
• Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REx Rendezvous With an Asteroid: The spacecraft arrives at the tiniest [tr] [12/03/2018]
• Live coverage of spacecraft arrival at asteroid December 3 [12/02/2018]
• NASA Spacecraft Begins Final Approach to Big Asteroid Bennu [08/21/2018]
• Chasing asteroids: Dual missions sniff out clues to solar system's past [08/20/2018]
• Asteroid Bennu: Target of Sample Return Mission [03/13/2018]
• NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest [02/04/2017]
• NASA asteroid probe may find clues to origins of life on Earth (Bennu, time capsule of our origins) [09/08/2016]
• NASA plans to launch study of asteroid that could destroy Earth (Bennu in 2135 scenario) [07/31/2016]

[rdl6989]

I wasn’t planning to be in town around that time anyway.

[Mr. K]

LMAO