Posted on 04/26/2019 7:37:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
They hope to learn the best strategies for responding to a potential strike, starting from the moment a threatening asteroid is first detected by astronomers.
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office will team up with other partners to perform a “tabletop exercise” on how they’d handle the news of a (fictional) asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
On March 26, 2019, astronomers discover an asteroid in the night sky, far dimmer than Pluto to their telescopes. They name it 2019 PDC. Initially, it appears that the asteroid’s eccentric orbit bring it within approximately 18 times the Moon’s distance from the Earth, with a chance of hitting the Earth at one in 50,000 in 2027.
Astronomers continue to track the object as it gets closer. They learn it could be somewhere between 100 and 300 meters wide—the size of a skyscraper. After a month of tracking, the probability of collision with Earth is now 1 percent—the threshold at which international organizations have agreed they must take action.
Its potential paths intersect the United States, some of western Africa, and the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
The fictional 2019 PDC describes a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” the kind that orbits close to Earth and that could have a catastrophic impact if it actually struck the planet.... The new simulation instead will focus less on the scientific questions, and more on governmental response.
This simulation is the sixth near-Earth-object impact exercise that NASA has taken part in. Not only do these exercises help NASA officials think through what they’d do in the event of a threat, but they also help them know what information is most important to FEMA and other agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help you be catastrophic.”
Why don’t they simulate and even more devastating strike? Democraps winning the WH and both houses?
Mecca would be optimum...they already have a space rock there.
It is going to be wild!
[I am going to go tear all the “do not tear” tags off my new pillows]
I’m with the Mattress Police.
There are no tags on these mattresses.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to take you downtown.
I am also going to put whipped cream in my coffee and I am not going to shake before using.
Ping
You'll never take me alive copper!
I’ll Run ,,,With Scissors!
We’re coming after you for those mattress tags!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBh0iAnqSc
Be prepared for our crack helicopter team to land from above!!
Hut-hut-hut-hut-hut-hut-hut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvm_RMlkok
And turn off The Girl from Impanema! Get out of that elevator!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PYKOo_jgJo
So, what will the government’s advice be?
Bend over and kiss your asses good-bye.
[ Kick michael moore out of a plane? ]
No, that’e the earthquake test for the following week.
In that test, Michael Moore fights Oprah fights Jerrod Nadler for the last crab leg at Golden Corral. It’s a 3-way cage match.
It’s expected to generate a 9.5.
Don’t park your Jaguar sedan next to the ocean.
And try not to just survive with Leelee Sobieski.
She thought 9/11/2001 was no big deal.
Only liberals have enough practice in to actually assume that position.
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