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 ...
What in the war of worlds could possibly go wrong?
:Sits down and starts to sing along partly muffled by the whipped cream:
Say, got any gingerbread?
In that case, kiss your neighbor’s ass good-bye.
LOL
Wait until we find out you shampooed, rinsed, but did NOT repeat.
Our forensic labs can tell everything!
And if you’ve worn white after Labor Day......
Mmmmmmmm, considering my neighbors ... I’m gonna have to pass on that.
Bring on the asteroid!
That certainly will make people less panicky about the arrival of Apophis in April 2029... We can rest easier now...
This is what passes for wise spending—and we wonder why the nutcases spending our money are insane. 22 trillion in debt, 170 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and now this?? What pure unadulterated crap.
Maybe if you mistook WD40 for hairspray?
They would never tell anyone. It would be held secret so they could retain power. We wouldn’t find out till amateurs observed it.
Best thing to do is
0) Set Repeat = 0
1) Shampoo
2) Rinse
3) Repeat = Repeat + 1
4) If Repeat > 4 then GoTo 5
Else Goto 1
5) End
Just to be safe.....
...I'll let myself out.
After an asteroid strike there won’t be a NASA or FEMA to help the non-existent people.
Lucifer’s Hammer...
That book was terrifying.
No survivors.
Why bother?
Who is that weird broad supposed to be?
Cool book, unless you are in a low lying area like L.A.
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